"Angles Are Attitudes": Men's Style Tips From Pop Culture's Greatest Fashion Icons

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Brooks Brothers has unveiled its new limited-edition men's clothing line, created in collaboration with The Great Gatsby costume designer Catherine Martin. Gatsby isn't the first pop culture project to reinvigorate interest in the distinctive and discerning man of the Roaring Twenties. The gentlemen of Boardwalk Empire and Downton Abbey have recently donned wingtip shoes, white waistcoats, and straw boaters. With the "dreamlike world of pristine green laws and lavish parties" in mind, we gathered great fashion tips from ten cultural icons to learn the secrets of sharp-dressed men.

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What Your Favorite Pop Culture Idols Were Wearing as Teens

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Our favorite photo of the week belongs to Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Wil Wheaton who shared an uber nerdy image of himself wearing ankle watches (with friendship bracelets!), acid-washed jeans, and a ratty Depeche Mode tee. We've featured the image of the Stand by Me star after the jump, along with photos of other pop culture idols and their (mostly) regrettable teen fashions.

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Music's Greatest Gender-Defying Fashion Statements

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We spent yesterday thinking seriously about the role of gender in Shaking the Habitual, the fantastic new album by The Knife. Today, we thought we'd revisit the same topic in a rather more lighthearted way: by looking at some of music's more memorable gender-defying fashion statements over the years. Androgyny and ambiguity have long been part of popular music, after all, and they've been responsible for some of its most memorable imagery.

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Vladimir Nabokov's Drawings of Butterflies

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In honor of Vladimir Nabokov's upcoming birthday, we thought we'd take a look at the literary great's artistic expression of the one thing he loved as much as language - lepidoptera. In his whirling autobiography, Speak, Memory, Nabokov writes, “From the age of seven, everything I felt a connection with a rectangle of framed sunlight was dominated by a single passion.

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Eva Hesse: "Pre-Sculpture"

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Kirsten Swenson, a contributor to the new book, Eva Hesse 1965, edited by Barry Rosen, writes here on the artist's important transitions beginning in the last five years of her short life, as Hesse changed media from drawing and painting to sculpting the works for which she is so widely known.

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The sculptures made by Eva Hesse beginning in late 1965 up to the time of her death in May, 1970, are canonical works of postwar American art, yet the paintings and drawings made throughout her “pre-sculptural” career have just begun to receive sustained attention. 

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Notes From a Native New Yorker: The Global Queens

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Although this month's Global and International Studies theme suggests a look at places far afield from home, in the US, where people come every day in search of a new life, international studies can be found even in the interactions of neighbors or a walk through a town or city.

New York City has long been a hub for immigrants. 

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The Best Punchlines in Film

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A couple of weeks back, we perused the entirety of film history and pulled out our very favorite break-up lines — the meanest, the sharpest, and the funniest. For a follow-up, we decided to focus on the latter: selecting some of the best punchlines ever uttered in movies. By definition, a punchline isn’t just a funny bit of dialogue or an amusingly awkward moment: it’s the payoff to a setup, whether in situation or dialogue, and thus must be carefully teed up and smoothly executed.

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