Speaking of the Manolo, he writes:

Here for the Black Friday are the Manolo’s political beliefs, summed up in the following short statements

Read the whole of the thing--the Ed is in the complete of the agreement on all of the items on the list, especially items five and six:

5) The clothes they are important. They say important things about your identity, even if you pretend that they do not.

6) The fashion it is not the nuclear rocket brain surgery. One does not need the grounding in the theoretical sciences to know how to dress well.

For men, I'd start here.

Update: Julie Fredrickson of Almost Girl writes:

Fashion, more than many arenas, is one of contradictions and half efforts and half starts. My theory is that because fashion tugs so firmly at the core of our own identities as an industry it manifests those contradictions in ways that other areas do not. Toothpaste, despite all marketing to the contrary, does not say as much about us as our clothing. Image, expectations, and ideals all manifest themselves through the aesthetics we project. Clothing makes the man they say, but only because image has the power to convert, cajole, and seduce in a way that other consumer products do not. A large TV can only impress if others come to your house. Clothing is the armour we wear in society, in many ways it is our public persona.

For guys, it's even more so--as Oscar E. Schoeffler, the former fashion editor of Esquire once warned, "Never underestimate the power of what you wear...After all, there's just a small bit of you-yourself sticking out, at the cuff and at the neck. The rest of what the world sees is what you hang on the frame".