Photo: Foster Huntington's shot of Matt Hranek's essentials.
What would you take if your house was burning and you could only grab what you could carry? That’s what my friend, Foster Huntington, focuses on in his super cool photoblog, The Burning House. Check it out here.
Filed under Inspiration, Pictures, Style
Photo: Michael Harlan Turkell
Michael Harlan Turkell said Eleven Madison Park’s Kentucky Derby Party, which he attended for Garden & Gun last weekend, was one of NYC’s “best restaurant shindigs.” I think that means he had fun. Check out his pictures from the cotton-candy-and-seersucker-filled event over at my other blog, Southern in the City.
This weekend’s a big one here in New York City. Lots of Southerners will be donning Lilly-or-louder dresses and ties, freshly laundered seersucker suits, and royal wedding–worthy hats to celebrate the annual running of the ponies at Churchill Downs. In Manhattan, folks will be gathering at Eleven Madison Park, Smack Mellon, and all of the other great locations throughout the five boroughs that serve heavily-liquored-sweating-cold mint juleps.
But we’re not the only ones. In fact, I won’t even be in the city this weekend. I’ll be down in South Carolina celebrating the lovely ladies in my family, and watching the Derby with some hometown friends. Where will you be gathering this Saturday? Please tell me how you celebrate the Kentucky Derby in style. And send pictures! I’ll be posting a gallery of the best shots on my Garden & Gun blog, Southern in the City, next week. Email me at ggsoutherninthecity@gmail.com.
Filed under Culture, Events, Southern Folk, Southern in the City, Style
I’m not a climber myself–anything above ladder-height sets my knees knockin’–but I do enjoy the wild and adventurous style of mountaineering types.
Filed under I'm just sayin', Inspiration, Outdoors/Adventure, Style
Looking forward to checking out the Banff Mountain Festival this Sunday and Monday 
at Symphony Space on 95th Street.
In doing research on the Banff event, I came across complete collections of Summit and Climbing magazines, both of which were/are pretty much the handbooks for early climbers like Yvon Chouinard, Glen Denny, and Royal Robbins, as well as for the generations of climbers and mountaineering types who followed. I posted a gallery of some of the most captivating covers from Summit over at Southern in the City, my other blog for Garden & Gun magazine (click here if you’re interested). On Monday, I’ll post some shots from Climbing magazine, as well (in keeping with the whole mountain-climbing, adventure-sport theme).
Filed under Events, I'm just sayin', Inspiration, Media, movies, Outdoors/Adventure, Southern in the City, Style
Reid Buckley is pictured second from left. LIFE photos by Grey Villet, 1971.
The deadline for buying renewing parking spaces at the Carolina Cup is this Friday. [Note: Unclaimed spaces will be up for grabs after the Friday deadline, and general admission parking is available on race day.] If you haven’t been to the Cup, held in Camden, South Carolina each Spring, you’re missing out on one of the greatest tailgating experiences this side of Ascot. Just ask Reid Buckley. William F.’s eccentric brother resides in Camden and is a regular patron of the Carolina Cup and its fall counterpart, the Colonial Cup.
Filed under Culture, Events, South Carolina, Southern Folk, Sports, Style
Photographs by William Claxton.
Around this time in 1965, Robert Mulligan, the director of To Kill A Mockingbird, released another Southern-set movie starring Steve McQueen. Baby the Rain Must Fall is set in the backwoods of Columbus and Wharton, Texas and features McQueen as a hot-headed, golden-voiced parolee. McQueen couldn’t carry a tune, so the music is clearly dubbed; the style, however, is genuine authentic.
Just a man, a guitar, and a bathtub.
Texas tuxedo.
Rehearsing, naturally.
Co-star Lee Remick.
From a 1990's French magazine whose title I can't pronounce or translate.
Last night the Chelsea Room hosted a screening of Beard at Work, a short documentary directed by a couple of NYU film-school seniors (obviously) and produced by Brett Ratner. Since the film documents one of Beard’s photo shoots, it features models like Lydia Hearst and Doutzen Kroes, who were no doubt in attendance last night with lots of their model-pretty friends. Why am I mentioning this? Because Peter Beard, who grew up in New York City, Long Island, and Alabama, is a true adventurer and one of the only people to rock a blazer-kikoy combo and still manage to look distinguished.
Filed under Alabama, movies, Outdoors/Adventure, Style
Jorie Kent Butler photographed by Slim Aarons from tomboystyle.blogspot.com.
A cover of Summit magazine, as seen on coldsplinters.com.
Ricky and Ralph Lauren in Amagansett in the 70's, photographed by Les Goldberg, from tomboystyle.blogspot.com.
I recently discovered two new (to me, at least) sources of online inspiration that are like tall glasses of refreshingly cool water in the incestuous desert of workwear-laden, menswear-and-Americana–obsessed blogs that have proliferated the sphere in recent years: coldsplinters.com and tomboystyle.blogspot.com. Check them out. Go on.
Filed under I'm just sayin', Inspiration, Outdoors/Adventure, Style
Note the taxidermy in the background.
Jackie gave birth five-and-a-half weeks prior to this photo shoot.
There’s nothing Southern about the Kennedys, but both Jackie O. and JFK oozed frattiness, class, and a certain American wholesomeness that seems somehow consistent with the Southern way of life (at least sartorially). So, I thought it worth mentioning that the American Museum of Natural History in DC just opened a small exhibit featuring never-before-seen photos of the First Family of the Sixties, taken by Richard Avedon as the Kennedys entered the White House 50 years ago on January 3. The photo collection will remain on view through February.
