Color Ways

One thing to sort out now for the summer is your tote bag, park/beach blanket scenario, right? Please do not get that blanket that comes with a handle you saw on eBay or whatever. And if you got the Supreme Budweiser tote, that's tacky son. Unless it's for your girl, then that's a pimp decision you made right there. Now, you could get real ACL-on-it and get some vintage scenario that some dead dude used to carry logs in or whatever - or you could save yerself the time and trouble and just sort it out on LL Bean like a normal person. Something interesting LL Cool Beans's offering right now is the Custom Boat and Tote. As a sneaker joke, I did one in a Jordan I colorway, yo (I will be seriously excited if there are kids outside Uniqlo that've matched a custom tote to their Js though). But I'm thinking more like above ultimately (you know I'm all about the "Dark Bronze bottom," if you know what I'm saying). And why go to all this trouble? To take shorties on dates. And once you're done, make sure you Don Draper that ho and shake your trash out in the park.

LIFE Style: Chilin'

This particular collection of images is about one of my favorite pastimes; chillin' out. You can chill by yourself, or you can invite friends and make it a chill festival, like my friends here in Cannes.



A good thing to do is get ice cream. Or drunk.



When he wasn't 007-in' on 'em, George Lazenby was quite a master of chilling with babes on the slopes. Note the ultimate in chill attire - pas de laces.



Chilling with babes es muy importante; they can keep you warm in Central Park. Yowww.



Christian Slater has always been a fan of relaxing by doing drugs, which is certainly one way to do chillin'. Important mellow attire is a t-shirt and khakis.



But, you can be dressed up and also be low-key. I'm not a big The Who guy, but Roger Daltry's style got kind of interesting in the '80s; lots of striped shirts, lightweight blazers and jackets with tailored pants. Tres chill.



Pitt's overall vibe is cool, because you can tell he's saying to himself, "OK, let's get this over with so I can go roll a doob." Even in Inglorious Basterds.



This is some dude that went to Yale, protesting something. I don't exactly get what there is to protest if you're going to Yale, but whatever, he doesn't looked too stressed about it. OK, looks like it was about apartheid, but still.



A chill ensemble from The Dominican Republic. Supreme will never, ever make pleated pants, by the way. Dare you, Baque.



Unfortunately, Ralphie Lo's cornered the mindshare market on the ageless sport of polo, yet there's a whole lot more style and vibes going on than pique, especially in Texas. A good way to burn through a Saturday.



I get the distinct impression whoever did the tagging on the LIFE image archive doesn't know one Baldwin from another.



These Korean guys weren't actually chillin', they were fighting.



This cat is cafe ready in a t-shirt and a double breasted.



Pierce and Andre are relaxing; khakis, salads, water. Quite a mellow one.



Anthony Perkins in white chinos, maxing, relaxing.

All images, LIFE Archive

Wiliwear by Willi Smith

''I don't design clothes for the Queen,'' Mr. Smith once said, ''but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.'' - The New York Times

Borde 2 Def

How cool is it that this cat Olivier Borde just has a dot-blogspot for his site? With mentions from T Style, Fantastic Man and more, I guess this guy is kind of like the new Kim Jones, but French, and less ravey.

Dictator Chic

Since starting the LIFE Style series here on the site, I've highlighted some of the better dressed names out of that special set of Time-Life notable names. An era that's really coming to a close if you think about it. These are media properties past their prime, unfortunately, and the people they covered belong to certain passing age of celebrity. Now, one famous character that I've not touched on, but always intended to, is Colonel Muammar Qaddafi -- an all-timer in the annals of total weirdo style. A global icon of which style is a mere facet. That said, I could never find the perfect set of images. With Dictator Chic, Vanity Fair pays proper sartorial respects.

When the English writer and rake Jeffrey Bernard asked the painter Francis Bacon who in the world he would most like to bed, he replied, “I’d like to fuck the pants off Colonel Qaddafi.”

Dictator Chic in Vanity Fair.

New American Motifs

I think, from looking at this collection, I will pick up, a pair, of, Wallabees. This April. Nice styling.