The Sartorialist

Did you see Garance’s post yesterday?

She ran into Sartorialist regular Michelle Jank on Sunday in Paris.

I know Take Ivy is a big hit. I see that book everywhere I go.

What I didn’t realize was that Sartorialist alum, Haruo Suzuki, is involved with the project.

When I was in Florence last week, I ran into him. He very generously gave me an advance copy of the next edition, which will reach US audiences sometime next month.

For all of you prepsters; mark your calendar. Take Ivy 2 (actually, Take Ivy 8 – whatever that means) is on the way.

– Jeremy and Alden

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If you missed my initial post, here are the instructions again.

- The subject line of the email should read “Vintage Photo”

- The photos will only be posted here on the blog, so the file size can be very small (no bigger than 700kb). I DO NOT need hi-res images, they take too long to download.

- Writing a little something about the image you send will make your entry much more interesting for all of us.

- Email your photos to: sartorialistvintagephotos@gmail.com

I think stay-at-home dads get a bad rap in the media.
We’re portrayed as forgetful, distracted, emotionally stunted parental blobs who never get it right.

And yet somehow – I loved my time as a stay-at-home dad, it literally changed my life, and I met a lot of other dads during that time that proved to me that the media portrayal is just not justified.
Sara Denny-Roth of Kiehl’s and I always agreed that this special dopp kit project was a celebration of dads and their interaction with their children. In my experience, some of the smallest but most special moments that dads have with their kids is while playing at the park; so, we gathered several dads we knew and invited them to a playdate. We used the same park in the West Village that I always take my kids to – and actually, this is the place that I really learned photography whileas I shot my kids just being kids. Our only stipulation was to forget about me shooting and just focus on having fun.

Below are some of the shots from that day. I hope in these images you see the tenderness, warmth and genuine love that I felt between these families that day.
Becoming a father and the daily gift/challenge of that role is nourishment to my life. I want to thank Kiehl’s for helping me promote and celebrate that joy with an even larger audience.

Kiehl’s and I had been wanting to work together for a while, but could not figure out the right format; then, they commissioned me to create a dopp kit for their upcoming Father’s Day promotions and it fell right into place.

I loved the challenge of designing a product from scratch and they were keen to let me have it produced in Italy by my good friend, Luca Roda. The deal was cemented when Kiehl’s agreed to promote the project with a shoot celebrating the special relationship a Dad has with his kids (you’ll see some of those images in a post tomorrow).

During the project I took a few photos at critical moments in the design process. The photo above is literally the moment I got the inspiration for how I wanted the dopp kit to look. (It pays to always have a camera with you!)