PALM ANGELS!

"Most Anticipated Art Book Releases of 2014 This book, which features large-format photographs of skaters in Venice Beach and Manhattan Beach, captures the LA skateboarding scene, style, and street culture through the eyes of the world's most elite communities of skaters. Photographed by Francesco Ragazzi, "Palm Angels" takes the reader inside skate culture. Because of Ragazzi's artistic eye, the book is less focused on analyzing tricks and more about conveying the sensation of the men and women that engage in the dangerous, yet endlessly entertaining activity. "Palm Angels" includes an introduction by Pharrell Williams, who has become an icon in skate style." - Complex Magazine

Francesco Ragazzi is the Italian art director of Moncler. Pharrell Williams..well, you all know him.

Out 2 Sep 2014!

FASHIONSPAM RECOMMENDS: WINTER COCKTAILS BOOK!

When the days grow shorter and the air gets crisp, it's time to gather with friends for hot drinks and winter cocktails that'll put a rosy glow on your chilly cheeks. In Fireside Cocktails, Maria del Mar Sacasa and Tara Striano share more than 50 recipes for cold-weather cocktails and mixed beverages, including mulled ciders, hot toddies, wine drinks, eggnogs, and punches; there are even chilled drinks made with a kick that'll warm you right up. Whether you're skiing at the lodge, camping on the mountain, or just curling up with a good book on a blustery night, Fireside Cocktails is sure to make everything better.

Buy Winter Cocktails: Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, and Cocktail Party Snacks here £12.23

10 TOMES EVERY MAN SHOULD READ!

With endless recommendations and enticing bestseller lists, choosing what we want to read can become a dizzying task. Mr Philip Blackwell, founder of Ultimate Library, understands this all too well. A man who has since 2007 supplied the world's hotels, resorts and private residences - from The Savoy in London to Amandari resort in Bali - with bespoke book libraries, he is well versed in the need to create essential reading lists. With this in mind, we tasked him to come up with the 10 books every man should read. Although it's hard for a list of 10 tomes to be comprehensive, Mr Blackwell's covers everything from psychology and Shakespeare to booze and Boyd. "Here are my top 10 titles for every man's library, to read at leisure or in those small interludes before nodding off at night," he says. ultimatelibrary.co.uk

THE EVOLUTION OF THE MOTORCYCLE!

Real men ride motorbikes, or failing that, they aspire to ride them. Unable to smoke cigars at the table, drink whiskey in the office, or opt out of hands-on child rearing, being into motorcycles is one of the last ways a man can express his masculinity. Of course, for some modern men the cost, inconvenience, danger and discomfort involved means that their riding is done on the mental plane, rather than on the tarmac. Whichever category you fall into, this huge new book by Messrs Ian Barry and Nicolas Stecher provides an unrivalled visual overview of the first century of motorbikes. Here we present a small selection from the book's 100 bikes.

THE KNOWLEDGE: SUMMER READS!

A contemporary summer reading list could easily be comprised of selections from Mr George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Ms Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and perhaps some Ms Nora Ephron books for good measure. And it's not just because I have a thing for archery, or that I spend my weekends designing sigils and words for House Ortved. It's because those books represent a great deal of what we love about summer reading. Summertime gives us the luxury to fantasise. It's a time to get away, a time when we can carve space out of our lives to leave our offices, stake out long chairs, sip drinks with lemon and truly disappear into other worlds of pleasure, adventure, sex and mystery. It is in the summertime that we have the clearest view of Hosseini's kite races, the most open mind for Gilbert's prayers, the longest laughs for Sedaris' twisted family, and the direst hopes for Mantel's Cromwell. On these long, languid summer days, time is on our side; Egan's goon squad cannot catch us. 

But our summer reading list is not fodder for your conditional - in this case seasonal - susceptibility (which any airport bookshop can do). Instead, it includes books that will enrich and not merely enrapt; works that will involve you and not merely provide an escape. Just because the summer is the right time for fantasy, that doesn't mean you need to waste it. 

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, BEYOND GATSBY!

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda consists of more than 75 percent previously unpublished or out-of-print letters as well as extensive narrative on the Fitzgeralds' marriage by Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. The book features black-and-white and color photographs, and a candid introduction by Eleanor Lanahan, the Fitzgeralds' granddaughter.

Don't forget to check out this awesome blog dedicated to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the enigmatic couple who epitomized the Jazz Age: http://scottandzeldafitzgerald.tumblr.com/

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A BROTHER'S STORY: JIMI HENDRIX!

Jimi's younger brother, Leon, sets the record straight on the life of this musical icon. From Jimi's experimentation with the sound and vibration of plucking wires attached to the posts of their brass bed to the moment he picked up his first stringed instrument, this is a fresh and intimate look at an enduring icon from the brother who was there from the beginning. Leon sheds light on the origin and meaning of classic Hendrix tunes, which Jimi would play for his brother over the phone as he wrote them on the road. He also chronicles the complicated Hendrix family dynamic, the culture of sex and drugs that came with Jimi's stardom, and his tragic death. In time for what would have been Jimi's 70th birthday in 2012, this captivating account sheds new light on rock and roll's genuine legend.

Buy here!

GENTILUOMO LEGGONO: 'IL SARTO DI PICASSO'!

To read if you understand Italian, to look at the pictures if you don't!

It's a win-win anyway! Buy here or wherever you can find it!

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YES, I'M STILL ON FACEBOOK!

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FASHIONSPAM RECOMMENDS: THE SUN ALSO RISES!

'A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century'

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FASHIONSPAM RECOMMENDS: GRACE, A MEMOIR!

For decades, Grace Coddington's personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue magazine. Then came The September Issue, the behind-the-scenes documentary that turned the spotlight on a woman with a no-nonsense attitude and an unerring visual instinct. Overnight, the flame-haired Grace became a heroine for fashion insiders and the general public alike. 

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FASHIONSPAM RECOMMENDS: 'MAD FOR ADS' BOOK!

Mid-century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era: 25 Jahre TASCHEN

''It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.''

Mr Bill Bernbach, pioneering advertising director
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