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Something’s afoot in Long Beach CA. Established by Ben Neuhaus and Josh Eck , the recently-opened online (for now) shop Snake Oil Provisions is the result of two friends coming…

Chris Grodzki. Stanley & Sons apron and bag maker. Surfer. True craftsman. Brooklynite-turned-East Ender. My #farout dude. His Fall Three. 1) Warm meals: Romertopf Clay Baker. We…

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Simply put; Family/food/library/rural/transatlantic/vintage. That’s 10 Engines . And this is James Fox and his Fall Three. 1) Kinco “lifty” gloves : Either for windy chilled…

I met Todd a few years back on the opening day of a little shop on Sanchez street in San Francisco called UNIONMADE . Maybe you’ve heard of it. Since then, Todd and co. have been…

Chris Bray. Husband and father. Muscle car enthusiast . Along with brother Kirk, he of Billykirk leather goods . Damn good guy. Pleased to present Chris Bray’s Fall Three again…

Steven Kimura (here with other Owner Operator , Pete Sieper). Mountain-ready, US Made outdoor gear. Mt. Chiller ambassador. Solid dude. (Both of em actually.) What follows is…

The man behind the beard behind Refueled , Chris Brown, checks off his Fall Three again this year. photo x Jay Carroll , Marfa, Texas / Sept. 2013. 1) West America X Woolrich Camp…

Your pictorial guide to a proper, stylish, adventurous and perhaps dangerous Winter. Happy Thanksgiving.

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The dude. Jeff Thrope. Cold Splinters . High plains drifter. Outdoorsman. Doer of many a mysterious thing. Walker of the walk. My friend Jeff’s Fall Three. photo x Emiliano…

Above, the poster announcing yesterday’s release of The Grand Budapest Hotel Trailer. Above, said trailer. Release date: March 7, 2014.

Matt Hranek . Photographer and the man behind the William Brown Project . Now add to his resume, creator, host and adventurer taking the Alternate Route premiering November 20th…

Why break from tradition . So in that spirit, it is Max Wastler who is first up, once again, for the fourth annual Fall Three Series. Great friend. All around great guy. Author of…

Lifestylist. Media evangelist. Maker of Words for Young Men . Mastermind behind Done to Death Projects . I’m speaking of Chris Black. Below, Mr. Black’s Fall Three. 1) Clarks…

Speaking of Foster Huntington… A Restless transplant. Living the dream. Home is Where You Park it . #vanlife. Traveling the country for the past two or so years documenting his…

Mikael Kennedy. Photographer . Traveler. Trespasser . Long time good friend, collaborator and true compatriot. It’s such a trip to think of having long ago coffees at Five Leaves…

Whether you do or don’t know Foster, it’s pretty easy to tell what type of guy he is. One a the good ones. For the past two+ years, he’s been criss-crossing the country, living…

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When OSB‘s George Vlagos set out to create the Trench Boot, based off an old beat up pair of GI’s boots from the 40′s he’d picked up years before, it turned into a design…

I have had the pleasure over the years to work on a number of special projects with the brothers Corsillo (most of which have been fairly well documented here) and so in keeping…

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My relationship to cycling has been, over the years, the most tenuous and sadly, fair weathered of love affairs. I first fell in love with cycling and road bikes at around twelve…

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Here at Secret Forts, we are unabashed and long time fans of Engineered Garments and Mr. Daiki Suzuki, so with the recent showing of EG SS14 at Nepenthes NYC, seems only fitting…

July 1971. Three and a half years before my birth. My dad’s a medic in Vietnam. A MASH unit. The 95th Evacuation Hospital in DaNang on the South China Sea. When evacuating wounded…

Never content to simply rest on their laurels, The Hill-Side continues to grow and evolve from their very first collection of instantly classic ties and pocket squares to their…

Your pictorial guide to a proper, stylish, adventurous and perhaps dangerous Summer.

Here at Secret Forts, we are unabashed in our long time and extreme fandom of all things Engineered Garments. With the release of their FW13 lookbook, each look so layered, each…

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While most things featured here at Secret Forts only get better with age, there does arise the eventual occasion for mending, darning and upgrading. Picked up at a flea market…

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Almost two years to the day of receiving it and no worse for the wear, the Apolis indigo wool chore coat. Then and now. Surely counted among the most ubiquitous items in the…

Bottle Rocket . Released 17 years ago this month. I wound up seeing it after, with a head ache from rolling my eyes too hard, walking out of “Hamlet” with Kenneth Branagh and…

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As the latest issue of Pica Post , the renowned Manchester-based Oi Polloi ‘s in-house zine, wraps up, the good folks there decided to give us a preview of things to come by way…

On the occasion of their 30th anniversary, the publication of WP Lavori ‘s “Thirty Years of Research in Style”. The company’s past, present and future in print. The Italian-based…

The pictorial guide to a proper, stylish and adventurous end to your Winter.

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