Ink-stained fingers, piles of screwed-up paper and a slightly pained expression are the badges of your profession. You stand at your loft apartment window lording over your domain – the mighty NYC – it’s a hard life, but an inspired one.

Stuck for inspiration you rummage through thrift stores, sleep through art house movies and party with up and coming talent. While soaking up the sounds of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen you dream dreaming up your next fix.

Beating the big city streets can be finger-freezing work, so be sure to work those layers. Think Smedley knits, fine fabrics and contrasting textures, topped off with some work-styling outerwear. Shake out that dust jacket, don your straight leg, classic fit denims and take inspiration from British labels Folk, Unconditional, and YMC.

Don’t forget your notebook. No aspiring Jack (that’s Kerouac dontcha know), Hunter or Salinger would be seen dead without it.

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