Mr. Porter - Bags of Style

Although we're not against small suitcases with wheels for practical purposes, especially when travelling for business, you can't beat a good old-fashioned holdall in the style stakes. The fact that you have to exert some effort to carry a full holdall adds a masculine dimension to their appeal. If you're whisking your beloved away for the weekend, a small pull-along case (incidentally similar to the ones that air stewardesses use) won't convey the optimum message. You should be thinking spontaneity, adventure and style, and not look as if you're trundling off to the annual cost-cutting conference. Click through the gallery above to see five holdalls that fit the bill.

Anchor Division featured in Men's Fashionary

Based on my previous post displaying the Men's Fashionary, the new revised edition has since been release. The Fashionary contains useful information from Patterns, Fashion Brand Lists, Body Measurements, Fabric Information and even Bookmarks to Websites pertaining to fashion, style, photography, modeling, and business. Anchor Division is extremely happy to be featured in such a useful book. To get some more detailed information on this book, check here.

Grant's Pomade Give-Away Contest!

Grant's Golden Brand Pomade and Anchor Division recently teamed up to put together a give-away for a few of Grant's products. Two lucky winners will be sent a selected tin of either their Medium Blend Hawaiian Scented or the Original along with one of the Grant's Pomade combs. To enter, submit a picture of your dapper hairstyle here. Contestants who enter will also be displayed on Grant's Pomade facebook page as well as a feature post here on Anchor Division. So slick back that hair and submit!

All in a day's work - Park and Bond

How to keep your cool at the office, even in the summer heat. The rising mercury presents a distinct challenge for office attire: looking your best without also looking like you commuted through a sprinkler. To help you pull off this amazing sartorial feat, we went and put some of our favorite summer looks through their paces in an actual office environment ... ours. To add to the verisimilitude, we set each of these looks—a crisp khaki suit from Belvest, Mediterranean blue loafers from A.P.C., bold selvage cotton shorts from Bespoken, and more—in an actual(ish) office scenario. Think: presenting the latest results at the company all-hands, making the most of a chance hallway encounter with the company chairman (played by actual Gilt Chairman Susan Lyne), or trying in vain to get a projector to work for a meeting with the CEO (yep, that’s our founder and CEO, Kevin Ryan). The afternoon nap may be a tad unrealistic, but the dressed-up shorts look is for real. And so is the well-deserved beer after a long, hard day of getting stuff done and looking good while doing it.

Stylist: Jared Flint; Photographer: Andy Ryan; Producer: Ashley Boer; Groomer:Scott McMahan at agentoliver.com; Model: Philippe LeBlond at dna; shot on location at Gilt HQ and Artisanal Bistro. Special thanks to our colleagues at Gilt Groupe, particularly our featured extras: Susan Lyne, Kevin Ryan, Chris Halkyard, Marisa Todd, Anne-Marie Gauthier, Alexandra Steege, Mark Wunsch, Neil Decker, Jonathan Evans, and Chris Wallace.