Fashion Monday with JJ Lee

"Well it's got to be. I'll order you a red cap and a Speedo." TODAY, we offer Father’s Day gifts all themed around the films of Wes Anderson . Anderson is the American film director best known for his comedy, Rushmore , which is about a precocious polymath teenager at a private school who falls in love with his teacher. Of course there is also Fantastic Mr. Fox , The Royal Tenenbaums , The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited . His latest, Moonrise Kingdom , came out this weekensd. I nearly all his works we will find themes built around unsteady masculinity, boy-men looking for meaning, and often missing or wounded father figures, and these his films we often find items from the world of fashion used to connect the characters. To wit, I present stylish gift ideas inspired by the stylish films of Wes Anderson: 1. THE LIFE AQUATIC with STEVE ZISSOU Who can resist a nice tight Speedo? You can find swim briefs in navy, red, and blac...

This season smallish, modest trilbies and fedoras will suffer an inferiority complex as wider hats will be donned by men, especially those who have a flare for the dramatic. Dsquared²'s menswear collection featured on the runway deep covering brimmed chapeaux with bowlish crowns. Style.com reports they are Borsalinos . Which makes them the official supplier of the trend as Junya Watanabe also featured bigger brimmed fare by Borsalino in the form of bowlers (also called derby or coke - and, yes, they can have big brims) and Homburgs (Germanic upturned brims). In both runway shows, the hats seem peaky. That is they are slightly misshapen as if by rain and snow, lending the hats a recession-era ruggedness. If not, they should be. Some have called the whole trend towards bolder head cover the "Amish hat trend," but more often than not, they will be in fact be flamenco/Cordobes, gaucho hats, or any number of larger hats. While shorter men, may need to be careful...