STERLING'S GOLD: WIT AND WISDOM OF AN AD MAN!

A collection of gems from the fabulously droll Roger Sterling that will have you reaching for that martini and wilfully falling into the world of 1960s Madison Avenue, the world of the 'mad men'.

When God closes a door, he opens a dress.A" I guess what I'm saying is at some point we've all parked in the wrong garage.A" Can I just fire everyone?A" "When a man gets to a point in his life when his name's on the building, he can get an unnatural sense of entitlement." "It looks like you're all going to engage in a little mid-level camaraderie, so I'll be on my way." "You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do." 

Roger Sterling (a fictional character on the AMC TV series Mad Men) founded the Sterling Cooper Draper Price advertising agency. A World War II veteran, Roger has suffered two heart attacks. In the past he's tried to change his hard-living ways, but is now smoking and drinking again.

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THE LOOK: MR VINCENT KARTHEISER!

 "It's like Oscar Wilde said: 'there are two great tragedies in life'," he says. "'One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it.'"    

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"Don't get me wrong, I get along terribly well with the cast," he says. "I don't think they hate me as much as they hate Pete Campbell, but maybe I worry that they do. So I share that with Pete."

 "Thirty years old are just teenagers that gold older. You do adult things like shave your face and pay taxes, but you have a lot of the same insecurities and socially awkward abilities"

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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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HANDKERCHIEF: MAD MEN STYLE

John Francomb shows us how to create the classic pocket square 

as made popular by recent films

 'A Single Man' and 'An Education' and television drama 'Mad Men'.

BEHIND-THE-SCENES ON MAD MEN'S SET

Beautiful black & white, kind of surreal, work by James Minchin III. 

The set of Emmy-award winning Mad Men is the focus of a series of images from James Minchin III. The Los Angeles-based photographer captures the set, the props, along with candid behind-the-scenes photos of the characters both on and off set. What makes the images so captivating is how it connects the past with the present. The creators do such a remarkable and convincing job with the show that when confronted with the truth here in black and white it seems almost surreal.

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