MELBOURNE’S BEST BARBER SHOPS
Side-parts, quiffs, beards and handle-bar moustaches – men have reached peak personal grooming, embracing a diversity of features that celebrates the peculiarities of our hirsuteness. It owes much to aesthetically driven shows such as Mad Men which inspired gents en masse to search out more traditional, authentic experiences than those provided at your everyday hairdressing salons.
THE SCENT OF LOUIS VUITTON
Despite being the largest brand within the portfolio of luxury conglomerate LVMH, in a fashion industry typically built on a couture-to-lipstick model (in which beauty lines fund the creative ostentation of the runway presentations), Louis Vuitton has never had its own fragrance.
TRUSSARDI BLUE LAND
Those with blue blood running through their veins can safely count on a double inheritance: lordly money and good looks. Tomaso Trussardi seems to be one of them. He is CEO of the company, and also the current campaign face of Blue Land, the newest fragrance in Trussadi’s My Land series. The bottle features a leather band around its sides, which, according to the company, is “an expression of virility, simple elegance and freedom.”
KIEHL’S POWERFUL-STRENGTH LINE-REDUCING CONCENTRATE
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Kiehl’s Powerful-Strength Line-Reducing Concentrate, a this formula has attracted lines to the counter while diminishing those visible markers of age from countless patrons: the company sells one bottle per minute, globally.
ZEGNA ACQUA DI BERGAMOTTO
Ermenegildo Zegna is known for dressing the celestial (not to say chiseled) bodies that occupy the red carpet, though it’s not entirely rare to see their suits gracing the covers of men’s glossies. Last September, actor and martial artist Jason Statham appeared on a magazine cover in France wearing a powder blue suit that barely allayed his virility, though its disarming nubility conjured light over the lupine shadow of his stubble.