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New York magazine's latest Look Book borderlines on the shockingly normal. Brian Sullivan is a stay-at-home dad with a hankering for Irish lit — so much so that he's named his daughters te and Saoise. Spending his day at Bleecker park and reflecting on his evening art classes, Sullivan is wincingly cute and we are thus defenseless to his old-man trucker-hat charms. After the jump, Intern Alexis rounds up Hampton Stevens, Anna Arkin-Gallagher, and Zeke Reich for their haute commentary on daddy style.

Hampton Stevens, ESPN.com writer, aspiring gadabout

Who is hipper? Brian or Saoirse?

Saorise. But the older daughter, te, is hippest of all. An unnecessary umlaut is the ultimate fashion accessory.

What'll Saorise be wearing in 15 years?
 A hospital gown, plastic id bracelet, wrist restraints and Thorazine drip. Picture Brittany Murphy in "Don't Say a Word".

Do you think Brian s favorite book is by James Joyce? Or is he into the more new-age Celtic lit type of thing?
 Neither. When people mention Joyce, Brian looks bored and says he's reading Celtic poetry in the original Gaelic. New-age lit is completely out of the question. In fact, Brian loves hating anything contemporary, Irish and popular. He scoffs at Thomas Cahill, refuses to drink Guinness, rails against U2 and always makes a big deal out of not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day.

How can we make Brian less over-the-hill hipster in a midlife crisis and more confident-in-his-post-hip-existence?

Brian should know better than to kneel on the streets of New York holding a paper cup. People will drop change in his chai especially when he is with an obviously traumatized child. But the question is if Brian was ever truly the hipster he claims. Sure, these days he's an art teacher and the first man on his block to push a stroller. But 16 year-old art student Brian probably spent a lot of time reading sci-fi, playing video games and not having sex with girls.


Anna Arkin-Gallagher, paralegal

Who is hipper? Brian or Saoirse?

Brian gets points for wearing 17 layers and daring to sport denim-on-denim. (When was this picture taken, by the way? Either this shoot took place a month and a half ago or Brian and Saoirse have an odd way of keeping cool.) But ultimately Saoirse wins for her asymmetrical bangs, striped socks and willingness to put style above comfort at the tender age of three.

What'll Saorise be wearing in 15 years?

Brian and Kelley gave Saoirse an Irish name because they thought it sounded cool, but in 15 years Saoirse will have succumbed to the destiny her name has ensured and fled the not-so-emerald isle of Manhattan for the verdant moors of Connemara. I see her barefoot, wearing a Celtic-inspired woolen tunic. te, on the other hand, will have forsaken her P.S. 41 roots and become a total label whore. In 2020, she ll be dressed head-to-toe in couture, which means that she ll probably be wearing a Celtic-inspired woolen tunic.

Do you think Brian s favorite book is by James Joyce? Or is he into the more new-age Celtic lit type of thing?

James doesn t read many books (though he like[s] to), but he s got a lot of Irish literature, and is a fairly big collector, so he s into whatever he can get his enormous, coffee-stained hands on. Consequently, he owns 22 copies of Finnegans Wake (including a first edition), but has never made it past Eve and Adam s.

How can we make Brian less over-the-hill hipster in a midlife crisis and more confident-in-his-post-hip-existence?

Lose that pseudo trucker hat. It s very Ashton Kutcher 2003-cum-Ernest Goes to Jail.


Zeke Reich, freelance writer

Who is hipper? Brian or Saoirse?

Brian. Without a conservative midwestern father to rebel against, Saoirse just isn't that cool.

What'll Saorise be wearing in 15 years?

A mix of over-the-hill tween and quarter-life crisis. By then... let's see, using the rule of fashions cycling every two decades... she'll probably look really, really attractive, and wear jeans or something.

Do you think Brian s favorite book is by James Joyce? Or is he into the more new-age Celtic lit type of thing?

Look, Alexis, you can make fun of Brian all you want for not reading the books he owns. I know your snobby type. You think that just because Brian has "sold out" to "corporate media" and "commercialized" his "daughter," he deserves to be labeled a Celtic new-ager, or worse. But Brian is the real hero of this story. He was probably an artist in the _eighties_, for god's sake, back when you couldn't live in New York without being infested by insects, and I resent your gawk-booking efforts to demonize him.


How can we make Brian less over-the-hill hipster in a midlife crisis and more confident-in-his-post-hip-existence?

Make it clear that our hero is wearing not a trucker hat but something that the Killers could never even really comprehend. And, uh, Photoshop out that loop of thread that he seems to be sitting on.