fire*starter

Kindling & Tinder's blog about stuff: knitting, fashion, yarn, general complaints. We may also tell you how awesome you are.

Kindling & Tinder is a Brooklyn micro-atelier focusing on luxe handknit sweaters and accessories for men. We are inspired by vintage patterns, rock'n'roll, and loathsome, attenuated downtown gentlemen.

"A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress." --Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

Archive

Jul
21st

Mon

Face Hunter: COPENHAGEN - peblingesø + kastrup airport + center, 07/16/08

More please! From bicycle suiting, thru ubermensch, thru fake Sting. Awesome.

Jul
18th

Fri

A Modern Take on Iceland's Traditional Hand-Knit Look - WSJ.com

Jul
17th

Thu

Refinery29 Pipeline: James Dean Meets Ward Cleaver: The Look of LOVA

HOT. Period.

Jul
15th

Tue

Hipster Swede: Menswear Fresh from Gowanus

Jul
14th

Mon

WWD: Hedi Slimane is in Tokyo shooting Vogue Hommes Japan's debut cover

Jul
11th

Fri

SASCHA IN INKED MAGAZINE

yeah. y’all know what we like. it’s little sascha from tennessee in his dolce & gabbana tighty-blackies.

Jul
1st

Tue

CHRIS PULLIAM.: SS09 JIL SANDER BOY

Oh, Chris Pulliam…finally captured the way he really looks shempily skulking down 8th Ave near 21st St.

Jezebel: Chanel Couture

Gorgeous. Karl Lagerfeld is a sad, angry, and disappointing parody of himself and is an embarrassment to upstanding faggery, but he can still do this. Good god. …with commentary from Ayn Rand.

Comme des Garçons Spring 2009 Men's: Menswear Fashion Collections on men.style.com

OMFG, it’s 1988 and I love every second of it. I love the skirts, I love the skinny trou, I love the stupid hair, I love the skinny white legs. Awesome. Go Japan!

Lanvin Spring 2009 Men's: Menswear Fashion Collections on men.style.com

Hot, if a little foofy. But I’d still like to register that the only time that skinny trou and flip-flops/chappals are OK is on the drummer from Shoot for the Stars (and Kill Them).