A Short Story w/ GAP and GQ.

Shot by Raul Singson.
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What an honor! Over the next few months, in partnership with GQ magazine and GAP, I’ll be revealing the new pieces from the Best New Menswear Designers of America. The full collection will be released in September, but until then, I’ll be wearing prominent pieces from each brand.

This month, I'm sporting a brand that I absolutely love. You guys know I'm a sucker for pieces which are Made In Japan pieces.This brand is an absolute treat!. Here's their story on GQ.com.

In college, The Hill-Side co-founder Emil Corsillo began obsessing over Japanese workwear brands, fashion magazines, and selvage denim after meeting a stylish Japanese dude Hisashi Oguchi. Together with Corsillo's brother Sandy,  they went on to launch their label as an accessories line, doing square-bottom ties in rare textiles often sourced by Oguchi in Japan. Though they can now dress a man head to toe (in pieces like chambray shirts, linen ties, tweed herringbone jackets, and sneakers made from blanket-striped wool), "our approach to making garments comes from our approach to making ties," Emil says, "which for years was: We make the same object every season but offer it in thirty or forty materials." 

In hardcore menswear circles, the brothers may be just as well known for their Brooklyn shop Hickoree's as they are for the Hill-Side label that (along with others) they sell there. In the beginning, Emil stocked the shop with some of his personal vintage collection. "Hickoree's briefly, in its first year, was a really, really great vintage store," he says. "We had some stuff that now I wish I hadn't sold. And then a lot of small products: Wiffle balls and astronaut ice cream and socks and gloves and other interesting objects. At the time it was a novel look for a store, although it's become quite common for menswear stores to sell a mix of quirky objects. "
Check out more from The Hill-Side and also shop GAP’s amazing summer menswear pieces HERE.

Apparel Breakdown:

GAP SEERSUCKER SHIRT. GET IT HERE. / GAP SWIM SHORTS. GET IT HERE. / THE HILL SIDE SLIP ONS. GET IT HERE.

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