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After five years as an online-only men's pants brand, Bonobos has moved into bricks-and-mortar retail, spurred on by a $16.4-million investment led by Nordstrom Inc.

Since Morgan Spurlock is known for fully immersing himself in his movies - famously subsisting on McDonald's menu items for "Super Size Me" and pounding the pavement for every last product placement dollar in "The Greatest Story Ever Sold" - it seemed only appropriate to ask the man behind "Mansome" about his go-to grooming products and tools, most of which happen to come from boutique shaving brand the Art of Shaving, which signed on to sponsor the film's recent West Coast premiere and after-party.

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At 31, Espy Thomas continues to be a trendsetter. In 1999, after graduating from high school, she decided she would no longer use chemicals to straighten her hair.

Richard John has one of the most interesting closets in America.

New York City-based menswear designer Todd Snyder is having a banner year. With barely three seasons of his namesake label under his belt, the Ames, Iowa, native started off 2012 with a nod from GQ magazine, which named him one of the best new menswear designers in America.

Morgan Spurlock, the clown prince of documentary filmmaking, has examined fast food ("Super Size Me") and product placement ("The Greatest Movie Ever Sold"). Now, in the just-released "Mansome," he turns his attention to the somewhat surprising topic of men's grooming, enlisting champion beard growers, hirsute celebrities and a grab bag of barbers, anthropologists and magazine editors to bring the discussion of men's looks and masculinity out of the closet and into the bright light of day.

Smith's Rosebud Salve is a beauty product made entirely within Maryland's borders, but its brand name stretches far beyond the borders of the country.

The hats at the 138th Kentucky Derby would rival any royal British social event, with stars such as Ginnifer Goodwin, Debra Messing, Cyndi Lauper and Mary J. Blige all donning oversized, elaborate headgear. It wasn't just women, either. Joey Fatone wore a black-banded straw panama and Kellan Lutz an impish newsboy hat.

They came to the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, Calif., wearing spring's fluorescent bright colors, floral jeans and sky-high wedge sandals, their rainbow-manicured hands clutching iPhones at the ready to tweet, Pin and Instagram tidbits to their fashionable followers over the Internet.

"Dark Shadows," which hit theaters on Friday, not only revives long-dormant vampire Barnabas Collins, it also brings back some giggle- and cringe-inducing fashions of the early 1970s.

Fashion jewelry design is in the midst of a renaissance the likes of which we haven't seen since the 1980s. And Alexis Bittar blazed the trail. In the last two decades, the New York-based jewelry designer has gone from selling his signature colorful, hand-carved Lucite pieces on the streets of SoHo to bejeweling leading ladies in Hollywood and beyond, including Lady Gaga, First Lady Michelle Obama, Madonna, Cameron Diaz, Meryl Streep and Rihanna. At the same time, he's managed to keep the core of his collection in an accessible $225-to-$645 price range.

When most people think of Vidal Sassoon, who died Wednesday at age 84, they think Carnaby Street. But he also had a role in shaping Los Angeles as a city of style.