We were interviewed by Faux magazine a few days ago. In it we discuss our upcoming HNDSM line, our inspiration behind it, and why women are sometimes braver than men.

Read the full interview on their website.

We made our way around L.A. over the weekend, spreading the Handsome word and in the process we’ve come across some super sweet street art, restaurants, clothing stores and ran into Lupe Fiasco.

We were pretty excited to stumble across some street art pieces by Space Invader, Shepard Fairey, Mr. Brainwash, Andre and Skullphone. Sidenote: Watch Exit Through the Gift Shop for some further education on those names. More pictures of all the artists’ work ahead.

Also next time you’re in L.A. here’s some of our favourite stores to check out:

South Willard

A sweet small store with a well curated collection of brands that’s free of all filler. Check it out for some Band of Outsiders, Dries Van Noten and South Willard’s in house brand.

Opening Ceremony

One of the coolest parts of the store is the fact that it’s in Charlie Chaplin’s former dance studio. The space is filled with the same brands that established Opening Ceremony in their New York flagship. You can go through some well chosen pieces from some of our favourites including Band of Outsiders, Acne, Pegleg, Dana Lee, and Alexander Wang.

Confederacy

Sharing the block with a massive Goodwill outlet, it was apparent that Danny Masterson’s store was taking a novel approach to high end retail. Their well chosen selection is housed in one of the nicest retail spaces we saw in the city. We walked through the high ceiling womens’ section, through the courtyard, passed Jon Hamm, and entered the super impressive menswear room. Racks and shelves of Patrik Ervell, Common Projects and Phillip Lim fill the space complemented by some telephone booth change rooms and a selection of photography books.

Also check out: Douglas Fir, Fred Segal, American Rag and Secret Service.

All photos compliments of Handsome Clothing Co.

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Ahead of the linguistic trends of our cool kid generation is ‘Sup Magazine. The mini-size magazine can be found at an exceptional list of fashion retailers including Aloha Rag, Opening Ceremony, Nom De Guerre and Colette. Flipping through the pages, you will find some further education and interviews with bands  like Yeasayer, The Drums, LCD Soundsystem, Gold Panda, and Japandroids.

We’re convinced. Here’s a list of stockists so you can be too.

In this month’s edition of Interview Magazine, there’s an exceptional interview with David Blaine by Adam Kimmel.The close friends go over some of Blaine’s performances and the thought process behind them. These include swimming with great white sharks in the middle of the ocean, being enveloped in a block of ice and being buried alive.

It’s one of the most intriguing and multifaceted interview I’ve come across in a while. There’s an excerpt below and Interview Magazine also has it available in full online.

BLAINE: Neither. They’re wild animals and can do anything. But I made a rule with everyone on the trip. The rule was that no matter what the shark does, we couldn’t hurt it. So if it did decide to grab me or take me under the ocean, we weren’t allowed to hurt the animal, because we were going into his territory.

Style Salvage ran an interesting interview with Erik Schedin this week. Shedin is a man who seems to know exactly what he wants in the products of his every day life. As a result, he’s put together a short list of pieces he loves and produced whatever fell short of his standards. His retailing began with just three products: white sneakers, American Optical Frames and Pledge Furniture Wax. His line has grown slightly and caught the eye of some important buyers in London.

Now, you can check out his meticulously chosen line of goods in his online store or at Dover Street Market.

Here’s an excerpt. Head over to Style Salvage for the full interview.

SS: Could you talk us through your current range and how it has evolved …
Erik Schedin: I designed the sneakers in the beginning of 2004, they were first produced in one size only, 44, and released on my website in 2008. In the beginning I had three products, the sneakers, the American Optical frames and the Pledge furniture wax. The frames had previously been used by the Swedish army and when they where being phased out I got the opportunity to buy the remaining stock. The Pledge furniture wax is unfortunately not possible to get anymore either, they stopped producing it at the same time as I released my site and I think that I got some of the last bottles. It reflects a sense of perfection and pokes fun at me being such a control freak.

alwaysnever is hooking the world up with Robert Geller. On their site you can read up on a day with Robert Geller as well as shop his newest collection. Check it out if you’re looking for an interactive experience. Below is an excerpt from Geller and here’s the full article.

Robert: Designing a collection part for me is kind of special because we usually design a collection in a very short time and it’s quite a big.  Once we get into it I usually wake up very early. I wake up at 5 o’clock and get to the office at 6.  And from 6 to 10 I have the office to myself, which is a very nice thinking time for me.  I can’t design when there’s a lot of people around, it’s real distracting.  What I’ve done for every season is pick a book on tape and I listen to that while I do rough sketches. It’s something that’s going on that I can look forward to [finishing the book]. It helps me get up in the morning. The two don’t necessarily have any correlation,  if I’m doing a collection on Vienna I’m not listening to Death in Venice.

We came across an article from Inquiringmind Magazine from two years ago that features a lengthy interview with Zeb Munir and some insight into his retail space, Nomad. Nomad has been one of the top retailers for men in Toronto for quite a few years. It’s an interesting to see Zeb’s thoughts on the brand in 2008 and what has changed in the years that followed.

Inquiringmind also has a handful of interesting online articles including ones on ALIFE, Ibn Jasper, DJ Clark Kent, 88 Keys and North Face. Check them out.

This is possibly the best news we could have imagined from Kid Cudi. He’s diverging from his pursuit of a party album for something more along the lines of Man On The Moon after realizing how much his fans appreciated it. Mr. Rager just might be the only thing to hoist Man On The Moon from our most played album on iTunes.

Matthew Billing, a happy Handsome customer, sent us this poem cause he’s awesome. We thought we’d share it.

‘Out There’ by Jamie McKendrick

If space begins at an indefinite zone
where the chance of two gas molecules colliding
is rarer than a green dog or a blue moon
then that’s as near as we’ll get to nothing.

Nostalgia for the Earth and it’s atmosphere
weakens the flesh and bones of cosmonauts
One woke to find his crewmate in a space suit
and asked where he was going. For a walk.

He had to sleep between him and the air-lock.
Another heard a dog bark and a child cry
halfway to the moon. What once had been

where heaven was, is barren beyond imagining,
and never so keenly as from out there can
the lost feel earth’s the only paradise.

Handsome HQ loves our magazine subscriptions and we’ve just added Fantastic Man which is stacked with GQ and Interview among others. It’s a genuine departure from most fashion magazines and provides an entertaining read that will get you doing more reading than picture glancing. They include fascinating articles including a series on the psychology behind colour choice in fashion in this month’s edition.

Check it out for some enjoyable articles, unconventional photo-shoots and an intelligent approach to aesthetics.