Tim Yap
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Contributing writer Tim Yap was born in Kuala Lumpur and lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vancouver and Toronto prior to moving to New York City in 2005 to become an editor of Sportswear International, Stylesight and The Doneger Group. Additionally published in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Flare, Surface, City, Antenna, Maxim and Style.com, he currently works as an editor-at-large, content strategist and brand writer for companies such as Visual Tales, Tommy Hilfiger and Belstaff.
Bioluminescent Bay and Wildlife Refuges in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Home to some of the Caribbean’s finest beaches, Vieques, Puerto Rico remains one of the best-kept secrets in the region.
Meet Up Mondays: The Cambridge Satchel Co.
Come next week, Britain's Cambridge Satchel Company will release its best-looking collection of satchels, work, and leisure bags yet for men.
Summer 2015’s Best Swimwear
There’s more to today’s swimwear than meets the eye, with brands offering the most sophisticated blend of style, comfort, and performance in years.
Meet Up Mondays: Askov Finlayson
It’s impossible to talk about modern Minneapolis without mentioning Askov Finlayson, maker of the bestselling Explorer Pant.
Upgrade Your Fitness Gear with Mr Porter Sport
Mr Porter Sport offers more than 150 new products in the categories of running, cycling, tennis, golf, training, outdoor, swimming and sailing.
Meet Up Mondays: Welcome Stranger
As the tide turning towards classic yet streamlined, quality-made menswear, Hayes Valley's Welcome Stranger offers a spare but sophisticated point of view in menswear.
Spring 2015 Trend: Statement Whites
There's no better cleanser for the wardrobe after a brutal winter than basic white, and designers are making the message clear with statement whites.
Meet Up Mondays: Sunspel
England's Sunspel has a heritage that is over 150 years old, yet it couldn’t be any more modern with its clean, purposeful, and luxurious design philosophy.
Tiffany Unveils the New CT60 Watch Collection
Powered by hand-assembled Swiss movements, the stunning new CT60 watch collection captures the pulse, creative potential, and aesthetic of modern New York.
Meet Up Mondays: Five Four Club
If you're the type of guy who's sought freedom from shopping due to a lack of interest or time or style, Five Four Club's just the ticket.
Cool NYC Guys Are Wearing SHRT
SHRT is a custom shirt program created by the fashion brand Bespoken, Warby Parker's Neil Blumenthal, Fat Radish's Phil Winser, and DJ Brendan Fallis.
Meet Up Mondays: Glendon Lambert
Brooklyn-based brand Glendon Lambert is becoming known for its sublimely soft, custom fabrics that feel at once vintage and new.
Filson Expands into Watches
The debut collection, made in partnership with Detroit-based watchmaker Shinola, includes two case designs and 25 styles.
Meet Up Mondays: Hickey Freeman
This week Hickey Freeman is launching one of this year's most significant menswear collections designed by New York City-based designer David Hart.
Prospekt Supply Expands Lifestyle Offerings for Spring
Best known for its streamlined windbreaker, Prospekt Supply is introducing a matte version and tailored casual bottoms this season.
Meet Up Mondays: Glass House Shirtmakers
Chicago-based Glass House Shirtmakers is taking sustainably produced menswear in a refined direction.
SlimTECH’s Wallet Is the Ultimate Pocket Accessory
SlimTECH’s design not only feels sensible but also eliminates unwanted bulk from leather stretched out over time by users.
Get A Better Grip This Winter with Upstate Stock
Made with traditionally resilient ragg wool that is washed and dried before being worked on, Upstate Stock's gloves are as perfectly constructed and they are handsome.
Meet Up Mondays: Daniel Caudill of Shinola
Creative director Daniel Caudill is instrumental in engineering Shinola's brilliant branding and product line.
Top Instagrammers’ Stylish Ideas for the Holidays
Here, eight stylish ideas for the holidays from our favorite style icons in the making on Instagram.
Dainese Launches The 36060 Capsule Collection
36060, named after the zipcode of the brand’s birthplace in Molvena, is the first in the company’s 40-year history to cross over into lifestyle territory.
Meet Up Mondays: Waltzing Matilda
Mike Balitsaris’s handcrafted leather sandals, bags and accessories are some of the most original-looking accessories on the market imbued with memory.
Eight Leather Jackets to Get Right Now
Not only is the leather jacket the one layer that fills the gap between heavy outerwear and a light blazer, it never goes out of style.
Lands’ End, The Manual To Host 12 Hours of #Together
In the spirit of sharing good stuff this holiday, The Manual is teaming up with Lands’ End this Cyber Monday (Dec. 1) to co-host 12 Hours of #Together.
Persol Launches The New Icons Collection
Persol. You might not know the Italian luxury eyewear brand’s name by heart, but you’d certainly recognize its styles.
Meet Up Mondays: Club Monaco’s Aaron Levine
Aaron Levine joined Club Monaco in 2011 and engineered one of the smartest, if not impressive, turnarounds in the traditionally challenging men’s space.
Mountain Style Goes Modern with Ninox
Launched in October, Ninox offers softshell layers, a puffer, and a hoodie made from some of the world's most advanced and environmentally sound fabrics.
Michael Bastian Releases the MB Chronowing Smartwatch
The MB Chronowing, engineered by Hewlett-Packard, combines beautiful design and total modernity without the superfluous digital bells and whistles.
The Lodge Opens in the East Village
Good news for fans of The Lodge: the most-excellent retailer of made in America men’s accessories has opened its first doors in New York City’s East Village.
Meet Up Mondays: Carlos Campos
Image used with permission by copyright holderHonduras-born, New York City-based menswear designer Carlos Campos moves to his own drumbeat. But that’s not a bad thing, considering his signature immaculate aesthetic, soft tailoring and abstract inspirations, amid the recent sea of overly styled heritage menswear, have made him one of the coolest attractions at New York […]
Woolrich Opens First US Flagship in NYC
Fans can finally access the full contemporary and designer collections of Woolrich John Rich & Bros and Woolrich Woolen Mills stateside.
Meet Up Mondays: Freenote Cloth
Image used with permission by copyright holderThere’s magic brewing over at Freenote Cloth. For all its excellent raw denim, this new menswear company based out of South Orange County is giving traditional American workwear a cool overhaul. There’s the “classic oxford” shirt, for example, made from brushed Japanese selvedge fabric with selvedge detailing on the chest pocket […]
Product of Bob Scales: Shirts for Life
Image used with permission by copyright holder Product of Bob Scales, a new shirt collection marrying stylish utilitarian design with top-notch fabrics and made in the USA manufacturing, is barely a week old, but we’re already obsessed. As a former skater in the 80s who would repurpose finds from Sears and surplus stores, and learn […]
Porsche Launches “The Sound of Porsche” Pop-Up in Manhattan
Image used with permission by copyright holderWhat makes a Porsche? Is it status, the killer lines of the classic Boxster, the inimitable sound of one accelerating on the open highway, or simply the dream of owning one and living the lifestyle? Open through Oct. 5, Porsche’s brand experience pop-up—the first of its kind in the […]
Gents Makes Baseball Caps To Go With Your Killer Wardrobe
Image used with permission by copyright holderFact: your baseball cap collection could do with a boost. We know this because if you’re part of the majority, you’ve worn your collection threadbare and there are fewer things we’d part with than our trusted five-panels. Like all things, however, baseball caps do age and there comes a […]
Letter J is Making West Chelsea Style Officially A Thing
Image used with permission by copyright holderBest known for its art galleries, nightclubs, luxury condos and High Line elevated park, West Chelsea has long been regarded as one of Manhattan’s under-the-radar, albeit best-dressed neighborhoods. Open since March, Letter J, located at 557 West 23rd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, looks poised to make the stylish […]
Meet Up Mondays: Alexander Olch
Image used with permission by copyright holderImpeccably finished and originally designed, Alexander Olch’s collection of fine silk, cashmere, woolen and cotton neckties could be called the holy grail of neckwear. Each necktie in the Manhattan native designer’s irresistible polka dots, classic wool plaids and seersucker fabric, for example, is handmade with a fine slip-stitch, while […]
Meet Up Mondays: Mark McNairy
Image used with permission by copyright holderFor Meet Up Mondays this week we turn our spotlight to designer Mark McNairy, whose street-wise, contemporary approach to American menswear over the last five years has come to influence much of this generation’s modern classic wardrobes. The former creative director of J. Press from 2005-2010, McNairy launched his […]
Samsung Introduces The Headphones You Have Been Waiting For
Few electronics companies have been as brazen and prolific as Samsung Electronics since the beginning of 2o14. Just recently it put out the latest update of its Galaxy series smartphone and tablet. Its Gear 2 smartwatch, also released recently, was widely received as a significant improvement over the first, and there are of course those curved-screen […]
Birchbox Opens Its First Store in Manhattan
Birchbox opens its first store in Manhattan offering men a great group of grooming products to discover.
Meet Up Mondays: The M. Singer Experience
Image used with permission by copyright holderIf the secret to winning in fashion is keeping an element of surprise, Matthew Singer just stepped to the front of that race. When the former fashion director of the Neiman Marcus Group left his post late last year, it seemed logical for him to channel his expertise in the retail […]
Meet Up Mondays: Frank & Oak
Image used with permission by copyright holderMenswear brand Frank & Oak is one of fashion’s best-kept secrets. Not just because you can only access its well-designed, trend-right clothing and accessories through its online store but also because its vertical set-up, as a company that designs, makes and sells its own products, has allowed it to […]
Bolivares: Brand of the Americas
Image used with permission by copyright holderAh, sweats. Few things could be more perfect for lounging in year-round or even sporting to work. It’s true that over the past year designers have been slimming down the traditional sweatshirt and sweatpant down so you can now wear them outside the home or gym and even pair with a […]
Meet Up Mondays: Thom Sweeney
Image used with permission by copyright holderFew things can make today’s post-metrosexual or “spornosexual” man fret more than not being ready for his close-up on the red carpet or his wedding day. Fortunately for him, there’s Thom Sweeney. Until now the British bespoke brand, best known for dressing the likes of David Beckham, David Gandy, […]
Essential Man: Gift-Giving Made Easy
Founded by Jason Landver, Essential Man is making online browsing more friendly for men.
Meet Up Mondays: Brooklyn Tailors
Brooklyn Tailors is one of the most original voices to come out of New York’s contemporary scene, with its suits worn by Elijah Wood and Aziz Ansari.
General Knot & Co.: The Choice of Necktie Connoisseurs
Image used with permission by copyright holderFact: if you care enough to wear a necktie, whether it be to a job interview or date, chances are you’ll care for one that’s well-crafted and stylish enough to seal any deal. If that idea sounds appealing, then Bedford, NY-based General Knot & Co. may just be the […]
Meet Up Mondays: Todd Snyder
In the race to be the next great American designer, few have been more closely watched by retailers and editors than Todd Snyder.
Simply Good: Noble Denim
Noble Denim doesn't just make great denim; it's a force of good, forging partnerships with small craft businesses across the US.