Caring for your Space Pilot's Boots

Caring for your Space Pilot's Boots

I've been wearing my Space Pilot's Boots for a solid 6 months now. They've been through city and countryside, forests to mountain top. Over the past month, I've been on the road visiting factories, shooting the new W'menswear look book on the Mekong river, to New York for fashion week, and through…
How To Make Your Own Fortune

How To Make Your Own Fortune

Here I am in San Francisco, so close to Silicon Valley and I’m ready to make Fortune come true! Trust me this will be as easy as pie. Couple blocks from the Financial District of San Francisco, lies the Fortune Factory. It’s time to follow your sense of smell now… Ross Alley As promised, all...
Shibori Workshop with Slowstitch Studio

Shibori Workshop with Slowstitch Studio

We are so proud of all of our W'menswear indigo products that are painstakingly hand stitched and dyed in natural indigo by our friends Anne and Serg of Slowstitch Studio in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. After studying a 3 year batchelor course in textile design, specialising in weaving, then w...
Wastegetable

Wastegetable

Last week I had the pleasure to learn more about what Wastgetable does. One of the many things they do is turning organic food wastes into compost, then use it to fertilize the soil that grows vegetables hence Wastgetable! All this done on the carpark rooftop of a small shopping mall in the heart of…
The Salty Business - Oyster farming

The Salty Business - Oyster farming

Now that the whole world is on a standstill, there’s no better way to be socially and environmentally responsible than to shuck that oyster at home. With a little chew and slurp on this delicacy you are en route to saving the environment - the keyword here my friend is Farmed. Oyster farming is...
Ghost Nets Tote

Ghost Nets Tote

Among the other things I had collected along the beach of Chonburi, Thailand is a basket full of these ghost fishing nets. Ghost nets are fishing nets left or lost by the fishermen out in the ocean. Many of them are still in great condition and it’s a shame to throw them directly into the bin for re…
Re-kindle friendship in 2020

Re-kindle friendship in 2020

Hey friends, I'd like to make my first post of 2020 a reflection on the past year and what I would like to work towards in the new year. 2019 felt like a dutch oven of chaos, heating within its scorching walls. With much political, economic, and environmental uncertainty - Brexit, Trump orderin..…
The Good Living Support Group

The Good Living Support Group

One crucial element of good living that we have mostly cast aside is the idea of getting to know ourselves. For me, the concept of getting to know the 'how, what and why' of our motivation in life, is the foundation of our human experience. The quality of our personal and public life, as well as o…
PONYTAIL CULTURE CLUB / DEADLY CHINA DOLL (1973).

PONYTAIL CULTURE CLUB / DEADLY CHINA DOLL (1973).

Introducing a brand new segment to Ponytail Journal, Ponytail Culture Club, where we review specially selected films, novels, podcasts, and art that have been curated just for you. Kick off is the raddest kung fu film, ’Deadly China Doll’ starring our martial arts hero, Angela Mao.