Bruce Boyer has a new book out called "Riffs: Random Reflections on Jazz, Blues, and Early Rock." You can find it now in most major bookstores and online. It's a collection of essays Bruce has written about some of his favourite artists, includ

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Bonus Episode: Beards and Jeans

Nov 5th, 2019 10m 42s

Bruce has sported a beard since the 1960s and he explains how that gives him more in common with the counter-culture than you would have thought. Plus, an excerpt of Bruce's thoughts from "The Problem with Jeans" documentary.

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Bonus Episode: Vitale Barberis Canonico

Nov 5th, 2019 13m 55s

Bruce and I both have a long relationship with the Italian mill VBC, as journalists, collaborators and friends. In this special episode, Bruce shares his experiences with the maker, their mill and their creative director.

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Bonus Episode - Anderson & Sheppard

Nov 5th, 2019 12m 44s

Bruce Boyer has been commissioning suits, jackets and trousers from London's famed tailoring house Anderson & Sheppard for over four decades. In that time, he has gotten to know the house, and its cutters and tailors, quite well.

Chapter Six: fashion journalism in the 70s and 80s

Jul 24th, 2019 31m 6s

Almost fifty years ago, Bruce Boyer left the world of academia to pursue a career in menswear writing and journalism. Since that time, he's witnessed the fashion magazine industry change from an editorial focus to an "advertorial" one. But he n

Chapter Five: America's greatest tailors and shirtmakers

Jul 10th, 2019 26m 58s

Bruce Boyer has worked with an awful lot of craftspeople over the last sixty years. Some, as a customer or collaborator. Some, as a journalist and documentarian. And almost all, as a friend and fellow sartorialist. He's been lucky enough to hea

Chapter Four: Hollywood's greatest style icons

Jun 26th, 2019 19m 17s

In the first three chapters of this podcast series, we discovered Bruce Boyer's founding inspirations: Ivy League, Savile Row and Italian Style. But what was missing is not the clothes he wears but how he wears them. And a lot of that, his pers

Chapter Three: lessons in Italian Style

Jun 12th, 2019 25m 33s

Throughout his life, Bruce has witnessed the rise of Italian Style, starting with post-war cinema and early "Made in Italy" fashions and culminating with the generations of craftspeople he has met. All of which has inspired his own approach to

Chapter Two: visiting London's Savile Row tailors

May 29th, 2019 25m 45s

Bruce Boyer has been visiting London's Savile Row - the birthplace of tailoring - for almost sixty years. He shares stories of some of the tailors he's met along the way and what they revealed about this august and esoteric world.

Chapter One: college life in the 50s and 60s

May 15th, 2019 25m 40s

Bruce Boyer has been wearing Ivy League-style clothes for decades. In this episode, he talks about how he feel in love with the look and why he's stuck with it, through the counter-culture 60s until today.

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Prologue - Listen to this one first

Apr 17th, 2019 3m 16s

Coming May 15, a podcast that explores six decades of menswear through the experiences and memories of someone on the front lines. Stories that reveal not only so much about Bruce's journey, but about the meaning of what we wear.

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