London is great but I can't do this...

It is raining in London and the forecast looks pretty bleak for the weekend...so why not head off to the West Coast (as in the US not Cornwall) and then I can spend my weekend doing just this...

Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD from adam kimmel on Vimeo.

Designer Adam Kimmel chose another unorthodox method to showcase two of his Spring/Summer 2009 suits, shooting a downhill skate video.

PS - I wish I could skate. I contemplated messing around with a board and learning a few tricks at Uni but thought better of it. That ship has sailed.

Men Represent: Out of obsessions come style icons

I have been an avid watcher of Masterchef for as long as I can remember, long before the influx of the TV celebrity chef. Early memories include marvelling at Loyd Grossman's peculiar voice and watching housewives (with the odd, odd guy) compete against one another (not that competitively)...it was all about the joy of cooking and nothing else back then...simple times. In it's various modern guises the competition is taken extremely serious indeed, it is not just about the joy of cooking, it is cooking as a way of life, a profession. Which leads me nicely to the new series of this institutional show, Masterchef Professionals and it's new presenter Michele Roux JR - the bar has been raised as the hunt commences for a chef who can cut it at the very top of the culinary profession and the two starred Michelin chef judges with style. I have to steal an amusing quote from Sarah Dempster from the Guardian - "Here, hectoring judge Gregg Wallace is joined by Michel Roux Jr, a thin man with one large, terrified eye and one small, rather kindly eye; a biological quirk that makes it impossible to tell whether the Michelin-starred maverick is horrified by your pan-seared scallops, or just wants to give them a cuddle." Aside from his biological quirks he has an enviable collection of suits and wears them extremely well. As I sit watching my new favourite show (guilty pleasure) aside from cooking up a storm in the kitchen the new presenter makes me want to invest in more suits...and work on my stare. He has inspired me to experiment with smartening up my everyday look.

Men Represent: Style Icons Update

Firstly apologies again for Week 2 of Men Represent which passed me by...the last two weeks have flown by and left me tired and a little confused...but it was all worth it. For those of you who don't know I moved flats and aside from carrying boxes, driving in vans and visiting Ikea I didn't have access to the alternate, all consuming world of the Internet. Excuses, excuses I hear you say, well, you might have something there. My point is that our thirst for your style icons has yet to be quenched, despite some stella work from The Journal of Style and The Sunday Best, we still want more, If you've posted about your style icons and I've missed you out please let us know.

Here are the blogs and the icons who have taken part:

The Sunday Best gave us Brian Eno and David Byrne whilst letting us know about their new collaboration. "And for letting his hair grey wonderfully, and cycling everywhere, and drawing trees, and wearing scarves and fedoras, David Byrne is a definite style icon."

The Journal of Style (a regular read of mine - a men's style blog written by Jonas, inspired by music and design) has been the busiest and most productive at the style icons task.

Marcello Mastroianni - "The Italian actor showed us that dressing in a very simple style was never boring as long as the fit and execution is right."

Albert Einstein - "Easily put he wasn't the most sartorial scientist in the world and his clothes didn't fit like a glove but he always was the most stylish scientist, he was what I would like to call - an individualist."

Please send us the links of any style icons post...let's focus on week 2 of Men Represent.