PRESS & MEDIA

Thanks to Quest Magazine for placing our seersucker dinner trousers in the Fresh Finds segment of their June 2020 issue.
Fashion industry lawyer Alan Behr makes a strong case for Alan’s new book RALPH LAUREN: IN HIS OWN FASHION.
Alan muses about the state of menswear today, his contributions to it over the decades, and his evolving personal style with The Rake’s Nick Scott.
Michael Hainey sits down with Alan to talk about the enduring — and continuing — impact of the man and the brand.
Christian Barker discusses with Alan why Ralph Lauren is so far beyond fashion, he’s actually at its forefront.
Kirby Allison of The Hanger Project sits down with Alan to discuss Ralph Lauren: In His Own Fashion — Alan’s definitive and lavishly illustrated new book on the designer, twelve years in the making.
An interview with Alan by David Coggins about Alan’s new book Ralph Lauren: In His Own Fashion.
Ivy-Style.com founder Christian Chensvold interviewed Alan extensively for this piece about the history of this eccentric and uniquely American aesthetic.
Ivy-Style.com founder Christian Chensvold’s muses on one of the signature looks from our Summer 2019 Lookbook: seersucker tuxedo trousers.
Alan breaks down the classic three East Coast style tribes: Boston, New York, and Washington DC.
A pre-Custom Shop profile of Alan and the traditional Anglo-American aesthetic that was his early inspiration.
A behind-the-scenes look at the process of making a made-to-measure suit for the Brooklyn-based vintage clothing dealer.
Sometimes, as well-versed as we may be in Brummelian principles of simplicity, we’re driven to satisfy a deeply personal craving for the baroque, the exotic. Sometimes, nothing but a perfectly fitted, patch-pocketed, half-belted, action-backed, three-piece suit with a lapelled vest and wide-legged, fish-tailed trousers (convertible to plus-sixes) made up in a luminescent, boldly-checked multicolor tweed will do.
“The Flusser Femme line offers what could be any woman’s go-to piece to make her feel as confident and classy as Katherine Hepburn herself. As she said, ‘Why slap them on the wrist with a feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer?’”
A contemporary account of the sartorial impact of one of Alan's classic power plays: the horizontally striped shirt worn by Gordon Gekko in WALL STREET.
The Rake's Asia editor-at-large Christian Barker explores how Alan's tailoring for Wall Street forever reshaped the way the world’s financial titans (and star Michael Douglas) dressed.
Ivy-style.com founder Christian Chensvold interviews Alan Flusser Custom's newest employee Andrew Yamato for Apparel magazine.
Over the past 25 years, Alan Flusser’s journey in the custom clothing business can be neatly summarized by his changing taste in footwear. Flusser used to wear brown suede shoes almost exclusively, whereas today he’s most likely to wear Belgian Shoes that are as black as a moonless midnight. By Christian Chensvold
"I am an academician of clothes, for sure. Eccentric and eclectic. I basically like to think, underneath it all, people will be happier and more comfortable if they wear my clothes. I do want to add to a certain sense of not only aesthetics about clothes, but about life in general."
Behind the scenes of Alan Flusser Custom’s partnership with NYC bandleader and Jazz Age Lawn Party founder Michael Arenella.
I had tried my best. I wore the chalk-stripe suit. But the verdict was that the shoulders were both too narrow and unnecessarily padded. It turned out that my shirt collar was too low for someone with a long neck. And the one-and-a-half-inch trouser cuffs were deemed meager for someone 6 foot 2 with size 11 feet.
Alan Flusser is one of the great authorities on menswear, having authored several books on the evolution of men’s fashion. He’s also a custom tailor whose bespoke creations are classic yet subtly distinctive; his fabrics and details are perfect for men who cultivate a unique, individual look.
“If there comes a time when owning a custom-made black cashmere blazer or tweed hacking jacket becomes unstylish for a woman, I will hang up my tape measure,” Alan Flusser declares. The designer has no reason to worry: male couture on a female silhouette is an aesthetic that appeals to something almost primal within us.
Can I wear a patterned dress shirt or tie with a striped navy-blue suit? Yes, definitely, as long as you keep the two patterns different in scale, such as a narrow-striped suit and a spaced-figured necktie, or wide-striped suit with a small-patterned check or plaid dress shirt.
I usually don’t button my jacket, but I’ve noticed with three- or four-button jackets-that many guys do. With all those buttons, how many do I actually button? I recommend avoiding any single-breasted suit or jacket that sportsmore than three buttons or less than two.
With the demise of casual Friday, do jeans still pass muster business apparel in the office? A good rule of thumb for corporate attire is to dress in line with your superiors and never more casually than your subordinates. Jeans are never in good taste unless you are engaged in manual labor or your boss sports them.
I see jackets with single vents, side vents and no vents. Which is most flattering? Non-vented jackets hug the hip, giving it a trim contour. But they function poorly: The back of the jacket bunches up when the wearer sits down or reaches into his pockets.
We often hear about stylish stars from the past. Which of today’s celebrities and public figures best exemplify superior style? This is a question that goes to the heart of what I term the “paradox of modern fashion.” If the likes of David Niven or Cary Grant are your style benchmarks, I’m afraid Hollywood’s current crop of leading males could not even tie their shoes.
My suits are in conservative colors, mostly gray and navy. Can I wear brown shoes with any of them? Is there a rule here? This question has been coming up for years. In fact, in my most recent book, Dressing the Man, I reprinted an editor’s response to a similar inquiry from a reader that appeared in a 1936 issue of Apparel Arts magazine.