America: Conquerer of the Global Menswear Market

What Men Want

There hasn't been a designer or a company that addresses the whole lifestyle of American men since Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren. New, exciting designers like Tom Ford take inspiration from their own sartorial needs rather than an idealized fantasy of what they should be wearing.

Suit Yourself

Inspired by his own sartorial needs, Tom Ford created a menswear line. But that's not all he has up his sleeve

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Karl Lagerfeld on Tom Ford

A behind-the-scenes look at Tom Ford's conversation with Karl Lagerfeld and Kate Betts

Maine Attraction

Alex Carleton left a power career in the New York fashion industry to start a nautical New England-flavored brand in Portland, Maine. Business is sailing

True Brit

Burberry designer Christopher Bailey talks to Kate Betts about English traditions, Belgian architecture and the timeworn craft of drystone-walling in his native Yorkshire

A Zegna Meditation

The renowned menswear brand is steeped in Italian family values, hypermodern, ideas and an enlightened ethic

The New Sartorialists

Move over, Calvin and Ralph. There's a young cadre of American menswear designers who are redefining the business with quirky ideas and sophisticated tastes

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The Venerable House of Zegna

The menswear firm founded and built by Ermenegildo Zegna is steeped in Italian family values and modern ideas