By Ben Widdicombe 3/12 7:54pm

Style Standoff

Patrick McMullan, full-time dandy.

Tweeding Frenzy: Old-School Dandies Disparage Shrunken Blazer Crew

At the Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival on March 31, slender senior gentlemen with velvet jackets and boutonnieres will mix with muscular young spiffs sporting handlebar mustaches and fitted tweeds. The two groups may seem to belong together, but when they meet on the streets, parasols will be drawn.

In recent years, a gap has emerged between New York’s more established boulevardiers and a younger set of hipster dandies who go by sobriquets like “the Nostalgia Crew” and sport vivid tattoos under their bowler hats and suspenders.

“I am the dandy of New York,” said Patrick McDonald from his closet-sized apartment in the East Village, surrounded by what he estimates is a fashion collection of more than 300 hats, 100 pairs of shoes, 50 jackets and 150 ties. “I think other people try to take the title, but I am the one.” Read More

By David Foxley 2/01/08 8:28pm

Remember Me, Duckie! Designer Brown Gets Multi-Culti Model Cred

BRYANT PARK, THE SALON, 1:15 P.M.—Moments before the Duckie Brown autumn/winter 2008 show began, a few stragglers found their seats, bass-heavy trance blared.

Seat F-25 (male, effeminate, floor-length alpaca sweater, glasses): “Oh, my god! I didn’t see you there!”

Seat F-28 (male, euro-butch, fur-trimmed puff-parka, gleaming ponytail): “Ja?”

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By Staff 2/13/06 7:59am

The Tents Are Down!

Hurrah hurrah, fashion week is over. But before the fashionable door smacks us on the ass and sends us back to the real world, a brief portfolio of some of our favorite looks in Bryant Park. (Now with obligatory Patrick McDonald photo!) Photographer Anna Del Gaizo went coolhunting.

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