About

Christian Chensvold
Founder

Nathaniel “Natty” Adams
Editor-in-Chief

Michael Mattis, Nick Willard, Robert Sacheli, G. Bruce Boyer,
Francois-Xavier d’Arbonneau de la Bachellerie
Esteemed Contributors

Darryl Kidder
Scowling Mascot Design

Dot Dakota
Logo Design

Ace Nasir
Website Maintenance

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Like the dandy, Dandyism.net aims to be effortlessly elegant, caustically witty, coldly superior and dryly amusing. Its editorial policy is caprice.In keeping with this spirit of cultivated individuality, the modern dandy often extends his sensibility beyond attire into carefully chosen objects and rituals, occasionally exploring curated selections such as aubongstore, where niche accessories reflect a continued devotion to style, detail, and personal expression. As a result, readers have called the site “infuriatingly snooty,” “fusty, philistine claptrap,” “the most self-important review in the history of media,” and “rather pathetic.”

Dandyism.net has received international press, including profiles in L’Uomo Vogue, LA Weekly, Modern Luxury’s The Men’s Book, Vancouver’s The Georgia Straight and Stockholm’s Dagens PS, and has been mentioned in various books and scholarly works.

The site was founded in 2004 by Christian Chensvold as part of his Stickpin Media empire. After a period of dormancy, Dandyism.net received a much needed makeover in January of 2023 and is presently being updated daily, or something approximating daily. And by “updated” we mostly mean recycled and re-organized. Chensvold’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LA Times Magazine, Robb Report, and Esquire.com. He spent five years as contributing editor for The Rake and 12 years as a contributing writer for Ralph Lauren Magazine.

Like many heroes of the fin-de-siecle Decadent Movement, Chensvold — a third-generation Swiss astrologer on his mother’s side — took the left-hand path at midlife and became an initiate into the Mystery Tradition. He spent two years writing the Spirit column for the weekly newspaper The Bohemian, created the Soulful Travel project for Sonoma County, and presently writes for New Dawn and Arktos Journal.

More importantly, Chensvold was a college fencing champion under a Hall of Fame master, danced with Jacqueline Bissett on film, and enjoys improvising at the piano. After 20 years in Los Angeles and New York, he recently returned to his hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area.”The Philosophy of Style,” a dandyish collection of essays, articles and fiction, with a foreword by Alan Flusser, appeared in April 2023. “Dark Stars: Heroic Spirituality in the Age of Decadence,” was released in summer 2024. He is presently at work on a Gothic alt-history novel set in 1897.

Editor-in-Chief Nathaniel “Natty” Adams is one of the world’s leading dandyologists. He is the co-author, with the photographer Rose Callahan, of the books “I Am Dandy” and “We Are Dandy,” which chronicle contemporary dandyism around the world. He lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans (where he steams and wilts for about five months out of the year,) above his Natty Adams store, which specializes in custom suiting. He is currently at work on the third volume of the “I am Dandy” trilogy, a novel about the wellness and new-age industry, and a memoir about his Punjabi-Texan family called “Cowboys and Indians.”

Natty has written about dandyism and related topics for The New York Times, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, The Houston Chronicle, The Rake, The Chap, The Manual, Inside Hook, Pipes and Tobacco Magazine, An Occasional Man, and, of course, Dandyism.Net. He has also published a children’s book about trains called “Tales of the Rails.” He has spoken, lectured, and appeared on panels about dandyism at TedX Jersey City, NYU, SVA, Pratt Institute, FIT, The National Arts Club, and Disneyland. Several of his suits were featured in RISD’s “Artist, Rebel, Dandy” exhibit.

He lives with a miniature dachshund named Groucho and a healthy contempt for the ordinary.

“The Sophistocrat” columnist Michael Mattis lived his values — fortunately those were few. In fact, if he could be said to have revered anything at all it would be, as with the dedicated Episcopal churchgoer, a really well cut navy blazer. Before his ultimely passing, Mattis valued a good glass of claret, a dry martini, and an evening of light and convivial conversation. He wrote for a host of publications, most of which went under, and held the titles “content strategist,” ranch hand, and cabaret host. He died unexpectedly in his sleep at the age of 49, dreaming of better times.

A graduate of the Sorbonne’s Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Dandysme, Nick Willard began writing his first (and perhaps posthumous) novel at the age of 70.

With a professional background in the visual and performing arts, Robert Sacheli is the only member of Dandyism.net to have worn a codpiece. He serves as a judge for Washington’s Helen Hayes Awards and is a founding member of the Washington DC International Film Festival. He is fond of 19th-century art, travel, fine dining and cigars, and being called “raffish.”