Hollering from the den in the MenStylePower Mansion, Stylemeister’s voice could be heard as clear as crystal as he roared out his ever present laugh. “Did you read on twitter the idiot who said that Seal was ugly?”. My reply… “Um, you mean the multi-awarding winning, married to one of the most beautiful women on [...]
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In a recent episode of ‘Kim & Kourtney Take New York’, Scott Disick bows to pressure and ‘purchases’ a Rolls Royce Ghost to impress the world at large, then ‘suffers’ further embarrassment when he has to return it because girlfriend Kourt can’t stand the aforementioned showy vehicle. Methinks Scott’s actions reeked of a stunt, which [...]
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Ahrr me hearties … Avast! There’s some great, grand storm a’brewing with some lootin’ n’ pillagin’ ‘n’ keelhaulin’ takin’ a’ place in the land of scallywags and wenches. Shiver me timbers! Back to reality circa 2011. To a world where men and women seem to be at odds with each other, especially when it comes [...]
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Have we let fear and anxiety distance ourselves from each other as we cocoon ourselves in self sufficiency and unwittingly deprive ourselves from the richness of ‘relationship’ that comes from sharing and giving to each other? That is the question that a certain Peter Owen Jones sought to answer in a recent three part BBC [...]
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“The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, and bravely dares what nature shrinks from.” Are men designed and created to be dangerous? This is a question that keeps popping up time and again at the MenStylePower pow wows. [...]
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Ever heard the saying “Turning a Blind Eye to Evil Is Evil, Too”? We are a world at war. Humanity is currently embroiled in 32 ongoing military conflicts taking place around the world, eight of those classified as major conflicts (includes the civil wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, the Iraq War, the Mexican Drug [...]
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To all our friends, fans and family, Thank you for making 2010 a wonderful and exciting year for the team at MenStylePower – we loved researching, writing and coming up with great content to keep all you style conscious dudes sated and satisfied!! May your holiday season be filled with all things wonderful, nourishing and [...]
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Holla Holla! There is a social phenomenon happening all over the world. And we dig discussions that break down the barriers of society’s much enforced ‘jail of expectation’. Gleefully, one of these subjects is categorically second in line to the confronting documentary, My Penis and Everyone Else’s; which as we’d all agree is potentially the [...]
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Sydney has a secret. One that it can’t keep bottled up much longer … For a few years now the one man’s name (and talent) has been bubbling under the surface of this cosmopolitan city, hiding amongst the theatrical wharfs of Woolloomooloo and the ‘gangsta glamour of the Cross and Darlo’ … quietly gathering a [...]
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Stop horsing around I hear you say? Polo is only for Royalty. It’s just for yuppies & celebrities and upper class snobbery. ….I don’t want to be involved with that mob… We have heard this statement quite a bit. Polo is a sport the public already knows and has association with class, wealth and privilege. [...]
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The Stylemeister and I were discussing the predicament that many guys find themselves in at 36-50 years of age, where they’ve made it to the ‘top’ of the career only to find they’ve rolled the dice in their snakes and ladders game, and landed on a slippery one, and woops they’re back down to the [...]
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It’s Monday, November 1, 2010 and here at MSP HQ we’re feeling a little under the weather after a big weekend. Not a partying one though, rather … working. We’re aiming for the 2015 Forbes List. As a result of all this hard work and labour, we’re bushed. Too bushed to write up anything too [...]
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On a daily basis, I tend to open a glossy magazine and enjoy flicking through its high quality pages to view the latest collections from designers, home wares, houses, holidays, motorbikes, restaurants, yachts and the like. Today, something caught my eye. By surprise. On a stark white page stands a man. He’s dressed in an [...]
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Many people have been asking us at MenStylePower what our USP is and we’ve bandied around different ideas but time and time again, we return to the one premise: MenStylePower is all about encouraging men to be their best – both inside and out. We’re not GQ Mag, neither are we AskMen.com, although we take [...]
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There are ok parties and there are great ‘talked about for weeks’ parties. When it’s on your watch, make sure your name is associated with the latter. Here are our seven principles (courtesy of the Bearings Guide) for being the quintessential host. 1. Keep everything in perspective and remember that at the end of the [...]
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Essence dot com’s Steven James Dixon gives you the 411 of being an amazing, respected, loved & extra – ordinary guy! “The Extra Ordinary Man vs. The Extraordinary Man” is a concept I developed that saved my marriage. Basically, there are three types of good men. I assume that there is no point in talking [...]
Read more →A young man writes a letter to his dying father. A father who raised him alone after his wife left him. A man stricken with mild autism, lost in his obsessive hobby of coin collecting, so much so, his son felt his only parent had not been much of a father figure. A son filled [...]
Read more →Every now and then I get a little obsessive about searching for a significant item that will define not only those style lovers who want to break out of the saturated retail market, but also for those unique individuals who aren’t lured into the greed that is consumerism. That very ‘thing’ that I have pondered [...]
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