"Style fills the gap between how you see yourself and how you want other people to see you. It is not a mysterious quality reserved for Cary Grant or Liberace. You have a sense of it in there somewhere. It's just a matter of finding a way to express it without seeming like you're trying."
Details asked Band of Outsider's designer Scott Sternberg to list his ten rules of style. Judging from the above quote, rule number ten, he's as brilliant and bright as you might expect.
But don't be fooled, because rules one through nine sound exactly like "advice" that would come out of my twenty-two year old brother's mouth. See number six. ("That skin-toned paste your girlfriend gave you to treat your pimple is makeup. Don't kid yourself. You're a girl if you use it. Figure something else out.")
Turns out Mr. Sternberg is on the Ralph Lauren spectrum of male designers, in comparison to say, Thom Browne or Marc Jacobs. He sounds just like a frat boy, which is rather unexpected from a guy who wears bow ties day in and day out. In other words, he's got to be straight, he's hopefully single, and he's definitely worth seeking out, if only to improve your wardrobe.
