Dressing is a bit like painting, when painting was about the beautiful. You should create a pleasing image with your garments and accessories. Adding a red splash can sometimes be the way to go. Photo: The Journal of Style in Florence

Where else other than Italy will you meet a refined combination of  jacket-shirt-tie-handkerchief on a man with a liberal, intellectual hair style? Pitti Uomo street style rules. Photo: The Journal of Style

Leonardo Bugelli, the most renowned Florentine shirtmaker, in his new workshop at Via Frà Bartolommeo 21/R. When I dropped by two weeks ago, we talked about that precious bespoke clothing and accessible ready to wear are blending. People may combine a 2000 euro bespoke sports jacket with 50 euro trousers. Old categories of highbrow and lowbrow mix. It is not an ...

Among Nordic countries Sweden has the most fashion and style conscious men. Norwegian, Finnish, and Danish men are neanderthals in comparison. Perhaps Icelandic men can compete with the Swedes but they are so few, so they really don’t count. I once dicussed with a diplomat, why Swedish men have more clothing and style awareness. “House of Bernadotte,” he concluded. ...

First stop, when dressing down a business suit, should be a solid brown sports jacket in combination with midgrey flannel trousers, sky blue shirt, blue tie and brown shoes. I had almost forgotten it. The elderly man in Pitti Uomo two days ago reminded me about the tradition, and just how bullet proof this particular sport ...