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"  Back in the fall of 2006, we here at Esquire unveiled our first Big Black Book. We felt that \u2014 while we did and continue to report back from the front lines of the fashion and style world each month \u2014 men needed, and deserved, something more. So we created a compendium of knowledge into one big, fat tome. Our Editor in Chief, David Granger, said this, in that inaugural issue:   Whatever stratum we travel in, we are a consuming class. We don&amp;#039;t defer; we see what previous generations of men would have called extravagance as our right. We&amp;#039;re able to purchase the things we want. The only variable is how well the things we choose, the things we allow to define us, will endure \u2014 how well they will carry their meaning through the years.   Esquire&amp;#039;s Big Black Book is about the value in things. There are reasons\u2014truly fascinating reasons\u2014that the best things in the world have meaning beyond their cost. There are reasons men dress as they do, in all the shades and variety in which we dress ourselves. There are ways to ease our passage through the world\u2014ways to help success along that have stood the test of time but that are thoroughly modern.  While fashion, as an industry, depends on change to survive, this statement is as true today as it was back in the fall of &amp;#039;06. Our most recent issue of the Big Black Book, for spring/summer 2014, will be our 14th. Now, we&amp;#039;ve taken the best\u2014the most vital\u2014of these seasonal editions and collected them into one hardcover monster that can serve as a North Star for any man who wants to live a life that balances outward aesthetics with personal significance. It can be done, and the Biggest Black Book Ever can show you how. Order Esquire&amp;#039;s Biggest Black Book Ever here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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