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Gear & Style (Men)

Drew Callahan

Portrait illustration of Drew Callahan, Gear & Style Writer of The Mother Lode
Drew Callahan · Gear & Style (Men)
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Gear & Style — the architecture of objects: seams, leathers, hardware, textiles, judged by how they will perform in five years.

The record

Drew Callahan's desk is the workbench and the leather shop. He distinguishes immediately between functional utility and pure marketing markup.

Tactile, technical, understated. His sentences are built like good boots: heavy, stitched tight, no wasted material.

Signature

“Cost-per-wear pragmatism is the only metric that matters.”

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  • The workbench
  • The leather shop
  • Seams, leathers, hardware, textiles
  • Pure marketing markup
  • How it looks in a lightbox
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