Fashion

Towel? Check. Sun screen? Check. Snorkel? Check. Anything we’re forgetting? Maybe. Getting dressed for the beach isn’t as easy as it should be. There are a lot of elements to consider – sand that will tear up your loafers, a gusty sea breeze to contend with, the general sogginess of sitting next to lapping ocean

It’s 1968, an NBC TV special. There’s a small stage, surrounded by primly-dressed women with big bouffant dos and men dressed as though they might be accountants. On the stage is a raven-maned man who occasionally sits on the steps to be among the people. But he is clearly not of the people – not

As the story goes, having beaten off scissors and, rather miraculously, paper, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson decided that he would conquer the world of wrestling. After he smelt what was cooking and became one of the greatest entertainers to ever step inside the squared circle, he set his eye on Hollywood, where it could be

Born to a fashion stylist mum and a designer dad, Luka Sabbat would get babysat by the models at the catwalk shows his parents were working at, while the family flitted between work gigs in Paris and New York. In other words, he has designer DNA. Since he was first spotted aged 16 leaving an

Business Casual is an album by Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo. Confusingly, business-casual is also a dress code – one that is as baffling as its inherently contradictory moniker. Business isn’t something that you want to be casual about. Which oxymoron came up with that not-too-smart idea? “Business-casual is one of those nonsensical dress codes, like

It’s a hard life being a male model. To avoid the unimaginably awful fate of being just another pretty face, strings must be added to that really, really ridiculously good-looking bow. Today’s most influential male models aren’t so much seen and not heard, they’re seen, heard and then some. Rather than simply wearing the latest

Tara Reid remembers watching E.T. as a kid and idolizing Drew Barrymore. “I wanted to be like her,” she says, revealing that the actress and beauty mogul inspired her to pursue a career in Hollywood. “Then, after American Pie, she came up to me at a sushi restaurant and said, ‘Oh my god, I love

Clocks have gone forward, the mercury is rising, and the sun shone for a whole eight minutes recently, all of which can only mean one thing. No, forget the beach body. It’s time to make sure our suits (not our stomachs) are summer-ready. Of course, a suit is a year-round essential that transcends time and trends,

While Kendrick Lamar, the man Travis Scott supported on his monolithic Damn tour, is the undisputed king of hip-hop at the moment, rapper Scott is certainly head of the genre’s fashion department. Set to release one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the year this week and with a US number one album already

September 15 marks the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month—a time when many nations in Central America celebrate their national independence and Latinx and Hispanic people are honored for their history and contributions. Two such women who are paving the way for their communities are Tata Harper and Rachel Gomez, business entrepreneurs who’ve found success

We’ve all been there: missed the alarm, slept in, got a few minutes to leave the house… and no idea of what to wear. Or maybe you’ve finally got your hands on a killer biker jacket or that perfect pair of chinos, only to get home and realise they don’t go with anything in your

Is there any other item in a man’s wardrobe that has the same transformative power as a pair of sunglasses? Within seconds you can go from sad dad squinting over the barbecue, eyes watering from the sun and pollen, to smooth rock star preparing to take the Pyramid stage by storm. No matter how debonair

There was a time, not too long ago, when if you picked up a men’s style magazine, you couldn’t move for features on icons like Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and John F Kennedy. Fair enough. These guys had impeccable taste, it’s true, but they are all American and they’re also dead. We’re biased here at FashionBeans,

It should have taken a hero of enormous stature to stand up and outshine the Avengers, but Tom Holland did it with little more than superheroic likability. Okay, that and a Spider-Man suit. The British actor is still a relative newcomer in Hollywood but has the poise and profile of someone who’s been doing it

We’re forever reminded of the importance of a #summerbod. As if billboards and instafeeds chock full of slicked-up six packs weren’t shaming enough, every inch of public greenbelt is awash with bodies that are better than yours come summer. And it’s hardly surprising many of us are miles from beach body-ready when we couldn’t be

Sandals are enjoying a renaissance of late. Time was when you might only wear them on holiday or at the gym, but these days they are fair game in the city as much as on the sand. Open-toed footwear comes in many forms, so deciding how to wear sandals really depends on your personal style and

If there’s a more satisfying feeling when the sun starts to blaze than setting your out of office to ‘on’ and feeling sand between your toes, we’re yet to find it. Unfortunately, unless you’ve won the lottery, chances are you only get to do that for a week or two of the year, and the

Harvey Specter. For those in the know, it’s a name that conjures up a knowing nod of agreement among men and women alike: goddamn, that guy looks good in a suit. If you’ve seen any of the high-stakes legal drama, Suits, (the clue is in the title; and yes, it’s the one that starred the Royal Family’s

Bespoke, like luxury, is a word that is often abused, misused to give something that is neither ‘bespoke’ nor ‘luxury’ a gloss of sophistication or justify a high price tag. The truth is that bespoke – exclusively something made just for you – is arguably the greatest luxury. And perhaps no more so than when

Like a cigarette burn on your knit or a toothpaste stain on your black jeans, a misjudged move with your bag is enough to bring your sartorial efforts crumbling down. Most of us (in fact, a quarter of men according to fashion analysts at Mintel) now understand that carrying a bag isn’t emasculating. With everything

Most holiday style guides stop at suggesting a few T-shirts, a pair of swim shorts and some sunglasses for your travels. And we get it, all three are essentials when hopping across borders. But what if you skipped arm day, have no desire to take a dip and actually enjoy forcibly squinting at the sun?

It’s not difficult to look good in a suit. If you’ve got the money and an experienced tailor who knows what he or she is doing, then you can’t really fail. Simply hand over your cash, listen to their sartorial know-how, and allow them to stitch you something that’s made to flatter the contours of

Of all the reasons to want to be 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy (played brilliantly by Alec Baldwin), the most compelling comes in episode seven of season one. Put-upon comedy writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) is further burdened with providing jokes for a speech that she assumes is being given by Donaghy that night; when she

Ever sputtered expletives at an inside-out umbrella? Cursed its crappiness as it lay torn asunder, metal spines poking out like a dislocated elbow, after what was little more a light breeze? Sure you have, we’ve all been there. The reason you were led to ask an inanimate object, in your temporarily psychologically unsound state, why