Style is not all about clothes but also about who and what you fill your life with. It’s a full time committment, but something that becomes second nature the more you aware you are of yourself and the world around you.

I’d like to talk about two facets of a stylish life and how the clothes are just one part of the whole. This first video is a very cool music video by a british metal band called Enter Shikari. I love this band because they mix my two favorite styles of music, metal and house. And they do it in a way that feels totally natural. But check out the cool factor of both the guys in the band and the crowd. The clothes and attitudes seem unplanned and almost an afterthought, yet there are tons of little details that stand out. A military shirt with epaulets, a vintage ‘cheerios’ T-shirt, a room full of emo haircuts and weird bracelets and old hats. Cool in that underground punk scene sort of way, and man, does that look like a fun time.

Here is the advertising video for the Triumph Scrambler retro-styled motorcycle. Different from the Harley Iron 883 which tries to be more of a gritty city, bikers bike (the all black, strip model), the Scrambler is more of a fun loving country bike, great for the dusty trails or the sandy California sidewalks. It’s portrayed as the ride of choice for two distinct retro archetypes, the first being the free spirit with leather jackets and biker boots (a great pair around 1:45 by the way) and the other being the fun loving beach boy with the cute bikini clad girlfriend, tooling around on the boardwalk between surf outings. Both portray a life of freedom and motion, of travel and yet of comfort in the simple joys of life. Perhaps the two characters aren’t so different after all, it takes something as simple as a retro Triumph to bring out the drifter in all of us.