Every Wednesday we’re giving you a deeper look into what makes the minds behind Kempt tick. We call it: The Kempt Five.
Mark McNairy Amsterdam Fedora. “I’m a dad now. What that means: I sort of look like total shit on the weekends. Or I would, anyway, if I didn’t have a few trusty items at my disposal. Among them: this McNairy hat from a couple years ago, which covers my bedhead and keeps me from looking, you know, like the exhausted dad that I am. No word on if it comes kid-sized.” —P.L.U.
This Patrik Ervell Jacket. “Our friends at East Dane celebrated their one-year last night, with the best gift a one-year-old could ask for: a set of exclusive collaborations with menswear’s best and brightest (Gitman, Golden Bear, Grenson… and that’s just the G’s). My personal favorite—and one I half-jokingly asked if it had security tags—was this jacket created with Patrik Ervell. It’s not online yet, but I advise repeatedly refreshing this page until it is.” —P.L.U.
Happy Bingeing. “Though Happy Valley first aired on BBC One, Netflix recently made it available stateside as a ‘Netflix Original.’ Okay. Whatever. Two words: quality bingeing. (Two more: low commitment. It’s only six episodes.) There’s a Fargo-esque sense of tangled, inevitable doom when a kidnapping plot cracks open a small town and its female sergeant (played with zero BS by Sarah Lancashire), but in this case the accents aren’t funny while everything’s going to hell.” —L.P.
The New Era of High-Maintenance Footwear. “Couple weeks back, I stood on a podium while a camera circled around taking hundreds of pictures of my naked feet. No judgments, please. I was visiting the good men of the Left Shoe Company, who just wanted to get a 3D foot rendering on file to ensure a perfect fit. Then we started talking style. I now get regular email updates about the pair of these beauties getting made for me in walnut on walnut—they’ll accommodate the high rises I didn’t know I had, and the insoles will be inscribed with the name I did know I have. (Full disclosure: they were gifted.) Angelenos can make this happen for themselves on Melrose, and we’ll keep you posted on their imminent NYC pop-ups.” —L.P.
Kon-Tiki. “I’ve always been a sucker for a great adventure story about people surviving an impossible journey (Hillary’s summiting of Everest, Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole, the events recounted in Steven Callahan’s amazing book, Adrift)… so why the hell did no one tell me to go see this 2012 Norwegian film about Thor Heyerdahl’s incredible crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a primitive balsa wood raft. Heyerdahl believed that Polynesia was originally settled by the ancient Peruvians, not by people from Asia (as anthropologists had long concluded as fact). No one from the academic world would believe his thesis because there’s just no way anyone could cross the Pacific in that sort of vessel. So Heyerdahl and a ragtag group of sailors went out to prove them wrong, armed only with their faith and their wits. The tension is excruciating, the scenery is stunning, and the appearance of a relentless group of sharks is 10 times scarier than anything in Jaws.” —A.P.B.
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