10 Men #57
New Daily Uniform
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A biannual fashion magazine focusing on menswear.
Introducing Issue 57 of 10 Men – NEW, DAILY, UNIFORM – arriving on newsstands March 24. For the first of four covers, we celebrate the otherworldly refinement of Kim Jones Dior Fall 2023 collection. Shot by Axel Joseph and styled by Jean-Philippe Phine N’djoli.
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A biannual fashion magazine focusing on menswear.
Introducing Issue 57 of 10 Men – NEW, DAILY, UNIFORM – arriving on newsstands March 24. For the first of four covers, we celebrate the otherworldly refinement of Kim Jones Dior Fall 2023 collection. Shot by Axel Joseph and styled by Jean-Philippe Phine N’djoli.
Want to know what’s inside the issue? Read Sophia Neophitou’s editor’s letter below:
Uniform dressing is something I have always been acutely aware of. As a very young girl, I remember watching my wonderful Dad (above) being fitted for bespoke suits by his tailor (everyone had their own favourite tailor back in the day). It made me understand the power of uniform dressing. I appreciate the precision and care he took to make sure his appearance was always immaculate. He always wore a shirt and tie even though he didn’t work in the City.
We were handsomely paid to iron his shirts and polish his shoes, a ritual my sister and I shared on a Saturday afternoon after Greek school.
He was always impeccable and never wore jeans. In fact, his school sports day attire was a camel tailored jacket with a tailored trouser in chocolate and matching bitter chocolate shoes (handmade), which he wore while he cheered and clapped from the sidelines on the grass. I remember feeling a little embarrassed that he didn’t look like the other dads in their jeans, jumpers and trainers, but now I understand he was the one they should all have aspired to be. He was always flawless, cleanshaven and smelling of his signature Monsieur Dior.
I recently sat next to someone on a flight to Milan’s men’s Fashion Week whose rock star status would not ordinarily be associated with bespoke suiting. We started chatting and he discussed how he is very much a uniform dresser, always wearing a bespoke suit, even on stage while performing, so he never expends any energy dithering and deciding what to wear. Like my dad, he was immaculate and clean shaven, and he talked about his tailor, who kept a block of his favourite style, so no time was wasted in ordering more of the same.
I think I too have unwittingly adopted my Dad’s uniform dressing. I’m mostly in Alaïa with a peppering of The Row. This uniform means I waste no time at all deciding what to wear, which seems at odds, I know, with the job I do. Like Dad, I never wear a trainer, always a heel, although in the summer I’ll allow the occasional flat – usually a strappy Grecian-inspired, nude affair.
Now, uniform dressing comes in all sorts of guises but, reassuringly, the industry feels like it’s smartened up. After almost two and half years of a pandemic where we all slouched in tracksuits and channelled our best TV slobs, Wayne and Waynetta, there was an increased focus on tailoring seen at all the shows in Milan and Paris. So now, after this deluge of casual wear, the industry is sharpening up.
In this issue, I wanted to explore the different ways this has manifested. We have our Features and Online Editor Paul Toner, who documented his experiences of wearing a different suit every day for a week. At 23, he represents a generation for whom suits are strange (prior to his piece, he’d only worn one once before, on the sad occasion of his Granddad’s funeral. It now hangs in his childhood home waiting for the next time he may need it).
The discussion of uniform dressing just doesn’t end with suiting. It has and always will mean something different to everyone. The brilliant Richard Gray discusses his eternal uniform: jeans with a three-finger turn-up and various iterations of a Junya Watanabe cagoule.
Last, but not least, we look at a tried and tested uniform that’s not just for exercise or lounging around the house, lolling on the sofa, watching daytime television.
The beloved tracksuit that is here to stay. Whatever your uniform tribe is I hope we have found a way to explore it in this issue.
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is a style and fashion magazine which focuses on luxury products such as jewellery, designer clothing, watches and beauty essentials. It aims to define the fashion market by presenting the industry’s most respected writers, photographers and stylists to the readers. The magazine shuns the outdated ethos of celebrity endorsement that is common among other fashion and style magazines and provide top quality editorial features and photography.
is a style and fashion magazine which focuses on luxury products such as jewellery, designer clothing, watches and beauty essentials. It aims to define the fashion market by presenting the industry’s most respected writers, photographers and stylists to the readers. The magazine shuns the outdated ethos of celebrity endorsement that is common among other fashion and style magazines and provide top quality editorial features and photography.