Bob Dylan and Julia Roberts. Robert Plant and Nicole Kidman. Johnny Cash and Elizabeth Taylor. Normally you wouldn’t think of these people in the same context—but Match Prints, the new photography book by Jim Marshall and Timothy White (published by Collins Design, an imprint of Harper Collins), does it for you, and (somehow) it totally works.

Dubbed “the rock photographer” by (none other than) Annie Leibovitz, Jim Marshall has shot over 500 album and CD covers and his photographs of Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival (including the iconic image of Jimi Hendrix lighting fire to his guitar) defined a generation. Although Timothy White has shot more than his fair share of rock stars too, you’ve most likely seen his work ...

As I take to my perch in the front row of the men’s shows for Fall/Winter 2010 during New York Fashion Week, I thought it would make sense to talk to you, dear readers, about items which came down the runway a few months back (worn by some of the most recognizable male models working today) that you can actually buy right now (either online or at your local mall).

Last month, Banana Republic held their annual dinner for the fashion press at Indochine (my absolute favorite restaurant in New York City – and no, it’s not just because the walls are covered in the chicer-than-chic banana leaf wallpaper originally used by decorator Don Loper for the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1941) to celebrate their Summer 2010 collection. Above is a...

When a life-size poster (featuring both front and back views) of hunky Ben Pamies clad only in bright white Commonwealth Utilities briefs arrived on my desk in a very large shipping tube, I knew something was up. A few months earlier, a photograph of Richard Christiansen (the brand’s co-founder) in his marble bathtub at the Bowery Hotel (surrounded by bubbles, magazines and Post-Its) had appeared in New York Magazine. By the time I received my invite to their show during New York Fashion Week last September, it was confirmed—Commonwealth Utilities was a brand worth watching.

And watch we did—over 350 fashion followers with our mouths agape—as 20 of the hottest guys from Major Model Management (including Chad White, Kerry Degman,...

When Scott Evans and I had a discussion over the phone about his cover shoot for Instinct’s December/January issue, he told me that he wasn’t really into fashion and just likes to be comfortable.  No worries, I thought, I can work with that.  Then he shows up on the morning of the shoot (right on time—even before his publicist) wearing the coolest waxed nylon jacket from Zara and a perfectly beat-up pair of Frye boots.  Plus he totally fell in love with the Banana Republic cords that I pulled for him to wear (see last pic below).  Not really into fashion, huh?

Scott is as sweet as he is handsome—and he’s also wickedly funny.  He kept us all in stitches during the day-long shoot which found us on location in an apartment in...

While doing research for this month’s column, I stumbled across a couple of old magazine covers (from Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue Brasil) featuring a former boss of mine – Pilar Crespi.  Pilar is the daughter of Count Rodolfo and Countess Consuelo Crespi (her mother was not only the Roman editor of Vogue but a former cover girl as well –  appearing on the April 26th issue of Sports Illustrated in 1957).  I also found photographs of Pilar from a story called “Pilar in Paradise” taken in Sri Lanka by the legendary British photographer Norman Parkinson for Town & Country in 1980 (four of the photos from this ten image portfolio are part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London).

When I worked for Pilar...

I love stories.  I love telling stories – and I love hearing stories.  And even though this is already my thirteenth column (yes, dear readers, Style Guyde is over a year old now!), I still have many more stories to tell.

I was originally going to start this month’s column with a story about my recent trip to the Kelly Clarkson concert at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut – which happened shortly after running around the city for nine days of fashion shows, events and parties during New York Fashion Week.  That was nine days spent sitting in the front row alongside some of the best-dressed people in America (if not the world – I mean, Carine Roitfeld of French Vogue was there!), so you can imagine how shocking it...