NEw Fashions Menswear Dog Shares Classic Couture With Man’s Best Friend

From designer inspiration to a mischievous pet, Jean Trinh talks with the co-creator of Menswear Dog. Looking for advice on how to pair your gray Club Monaco shawl-collar cardigan with your Gant Rugger oxford shirt? Bodhi, the debonair dog from Menswear Dog, would tell you to throw on a striped tie from Tie Bar with some cuffed dark denim then finish it off with a pair of rusty-colored Wolverine 1000 Mile boots.
Menswear Dog is the newest Tumblr to hit the fashion scene, using an adorable three-and-a-half-year-old shiba inu (named after Patrick Swayze’s character in Point Break) to dress up in some of the latest trends in urbane male attire. The creators of the blog, New Yorkers David Fung, 28, a graphic designer, and his fashion-designer girlfriend, Yena Kim, 26, launched their website Jan. 27 and are getting excited that the project is going viral. “Out of sheer boredom and idle hands, we decided to put Bodhi in one of my outfits,” said Fung in an interview with The Daily Beast. “We took one photo and posted in on Facebook as a joke, and even the caption was a joke, saying, ‘Now introducing Menswear Dog…watch for his fashion blog soon.’” The response was overwhelming, and thus, the couple spent the rest of their weekend dressing up their canine companion whom Fung tenderly refers to as a “spry, feisty little guy” and also a “douche bag” for never listening to his owners in Fung’s clothes, reflecting his personal style.