Unseasonal clothing actually only stands out when it's visibly uncomfortable. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I dislike turtlenecks at the best of times, as they are always unflattering to the imperfect male physique, but when worn in… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them,… — Russell Smith Copy Share
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup. — Russell Smith Copy Share
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously,… — Russell Smith Copy Share
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you… — Russell Smith Copy Share
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges,… — Russell Smith Copy Share
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm… — Russell Smith Copy Share
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Copy Share
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in… — Russell Smith Copy Share
What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me. — Russell Smith Copy Share
I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over… — Russell Smith Copy Share
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Copy Share
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We… — Russell Smith Copy Share
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot… — Russell Smith Copy Share
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in… — Russell Smith Copy Share
