Wax Wane

For Posterity’s Sake – The Spring of Never Ending Rain

Jake Gallagher — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:21:26 +0000

The Organic Design Show at MoMA 1941

Jake Gallagher — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:49:36 +0000

In 1941, Elliot Noyes the curator of the Industrial Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art here in New York opened up the doors on one of his first major projects, “Organic Design in Home Furnishings. The exhibit would show for only a month and a half, but it forever changed how Americans view mid-century …

The Arnold Palmer Polo

Jake Gallagher — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:44:54 +0000

First things first, I know nothing about golf. I have never in my life spent a clear Saturday out on the links, and it’s probably been just about a decade since I last picked up a club, and even then it was probably just to play a round of putt putt. Despite my glaring lack …

Okura’s Webstore, Blue Blue, and the Case for One Color

Jake Gallagher — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:53:25 +0000

I recently met up with a friend of mine who had just returned from a trip to Japan, but after a night of listening to his tales of sensory overload, meticulous storefronts, and inexplicable addresses I was left with the feeling that I’d been to young to ever appreciate Japan. When I visited that gloriously …

The Menswear House Podcast Episode Four – Talking with Brandon Capps of Billy Reid

Jake Gallagher — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:30:34 +0000

Brandon Capps is the sort of guy that I could prattle on about all day long. In an age where the word “inspiration” has been tossed so liberally you could quickly believe everyone is inspired by everything, Brandon truly does embody that term. I personally first was turned onto Brandon’s work through Drinkin’ and Dronin’ …

Revolutionary Road – Tragically Beautiful

Jake Gallagher — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:33:22 +0000

There are those movies that you watch a thousand times because they’re just that good, but on the other end of the spectrum lies a much smaller class of films that are so good you can never watch them again. These are those rare few films that aren’t just good, they’re so powerful that they …

The Birkenstock Question

Jake Gallagher — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:42:02 +0000

I am a firm believer that a person’s style is formulated through a series of what I would call happy coincidences. You see something that triggers some sort of memory, and suddenly you’re drawn to it. I flock to printed outerwear because it reminds me of summers spent in Santa Fe. I like washed denim …

The RRL is in the Details

Jake Gallagher — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:42:31 +0000

I always think of the names that brands bestow on their collections the same way that I think about drink menus. The names that bars use for their drinks are always either overt, or contrived, or painfully personal, or sickeningly clever, but ultimately, these names add up to just about nothing once you take that …

Battenwear – Visions of Japan in the 70′s

Jake Gallagher — Fri, 31 May 2013 10:19:13 +0000

For the past month or so, I’ve been searching for a series of photos that simply doesn’t exist. Somewhere along the way as spring bled into summer, I convinced myself that there just had to be a photo set out there that showcased Japanese surfers in the 1960′s. Now, my level of expertise on Japanese …

Astrid Kirchherr and The Beatles Early Days

Jake Gallagher — Wed, 29 May 2013 11:11:11 +0000

Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best, Brian Epstein, George Martin, hell even Eric Clapton. These are the the obvious (and not so obvious) candidates whose names always seem to crop up whenever there’s talk of who had enough influence on the Fab Four to earn the title as “the fifth Beatle.” And yet for all the debate …