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The continuing success of Sanjaya Malakar, the American Idol contestant with a second-string voice, is supposedly a great mystery. But Izzy suspects it’s merely due to the gimmick of his bizarre hairstyle, an imitation of the horsehair crest on a hoplite helmet (on sale here for a meagre $349.95).

Fulfilling …

The whole pirate-Hamlet-in-a-bikini thing is soooo 1983.

Two things in this photo caught Izzy’s eye: the whimsical transformation of Rome’s Louis Vuitton store into a giant steamer trunk, and the curious similarity between the centurion’s armor and said trunk.

At 5′9″ and 165 lbs., Lance Armstrong is not that small.  But this tie makes it seem like he’s a jockey, not a cyclist.

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An intrepid British reporter went undercover as an in-store model at the new London branch of Abercrombie & Fitch, a brand that, in Izzy’s mind, is popular with obnoxious, spoiled frat boys despite—or because of?—the explicit homoeroticism in its advertising …

Ever since becoming attuned to clothing, Izzy has been fascinated by the attire of visual artists …

Izzy is not usually one to critique ordinary Joes on their wedding day, but, putting aside his decision to wear a t-shirt, this gentleman would have looked a little bit more svelte had he buttoned his linen jacket (assuming it were properly sized).

Inspired by a post on the well-dressed economist, a reader queried Izzy as to whether he knew anything about the attire of the dapper TV business commentator Larry Kudlow.  Ever happy to oblige, Izzy has it on good authority that Mr. Kudlow wears bespoke suits by Savile-Row trained Leonard Logsdail (whom Izzy has had …

This article speculates whether soccer superstar David Beckham’s professional arrival in the U.S. will fill a “fashion void” in American sports. With great fear, Izzy recalls Nietzsche’s warning: “When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”