We Have a Winner!!!
September 1st, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 17 Comments.
Congratulations to Julie Sanchez of Birch Run Michigan the Winner of our Flourish Rolling Duffel Giveaway. She will be receiving our Endurance Rolling Duffle in vibrant Mustard Flourish. From all of us here at Mulholland we wish you many happy travels ahead! 
Win a customized collection value at $1800!
August 24th, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 2 Comments.
This week we’re partnering with three other fine retailers and running a contest to win a piece of the good life. In addition to a Mulholland Hippo Duffel personalized with your initials, the collection includes a three piece suit tailored to your specifications by Indochino, a set of bespoke stationary from The Forgetful Gentleman, and a sterling silver rollerball pen from Scheaffer. Check out all the details and enter the sweepstakes here. Hurry – entry closes 28 Aug 2011!
Summer Giveaway for your Summer Getaway: Flourish Rolling Duffel
July 21st, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 34 Comments.
It’s a Giveaway so you can Get away!
We’re spreading summer sunshine by giving away a Mustard Flourish Rolling Duffel.
You can enter to win 2 ways:
-Leave a comment here on the blog letting us know your summer road trip plans!
or
-”Like” the matching post on our Facebook page.
Contest ends August 26th
Happy Travels!
Presenting our contest winner…
June 18th, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 8 Comments.
Congratulations to LaDonna McCrimon, the winner of our Father’s Day shave kit contest! She’ll be receiving our all leather shave kit embossed with her husband’s initials this week. A big thanks to everyone that entered the contest via the blog and Facebook.
Mulholland warmly wishes everyone a wonderful Father’s Day weekend!
New in-store arrival: Sutro Sunglasses
June 13th, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 4 Comments.
We just received our first shipment of Sutro sunglasses here at our Sutter St showroom. Available in four silhouettes (each with two colorways), they’ll be for sale at both of our retail locations in the bay area. Sutro are based here in San Francisco and they manufacture in an Italian factory famous for its world class eyewear.
Be the first to get a pair!
In my Mulholland: Danielle
June 12th, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 8 Comments.
Here’s the second entry in our series where our team at Mulholland features their own bag and what they carry every day in it.
Danielle is our operations manager and she carries a waxed canvas Angler’s bag in olive/stout.
“In my Angler’s bag from left to right:
- Umbrella for the occasional San Francisco rainfall.
- Olive Business Card Wallet.
- iPad 2 that I primarily use for reading and emailing on the go.
- Notebook for well, taking notes.
- Earbuds for taking phone calls in the car.
- Valet Key Chain.
- Urbanears Plattan Headphones, great for drowning out the noise on the subway.
- Nikon D90 because I never know when I’ll stumble upon my next great photo adventure.”
What’s in your Mulholland?
Giveaway for Father’s Day: Win a Shave Kit for Dad!
June 8th, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 56 Comments.
They say when you love something, give it away…
To celebrate Father’s Day and help everyone get up to speed on luxury shaving, we’re going to give away an all leather flat shave kit in Lariat leather. We’ll also include the three-letter monogram of your choice. You can enter two ways:
-Leave a comment on this blog post. Tell us which initials you’d like!
-”Like” our announcement on the Mulholland Facebook page.
You can enter both ways, too. It surely can’t hurt. The contest ends next Friday, 17 June, at noon San Francisco time. Best of luck.
Way of Life: The Wet Shave
June 8th, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 6 Comments.
Way of Life is our new feature covering tips for living every day like a road trip.
Living in our modern world means that many things have changed for the better: our gasoline is unleaded and our televisions are in high-def. But some things have changed for the worse: that gasoline isn’t 25 cents a gallon anymore and the only thing on those high-def TVs is infomercials. One tiny thing you can rescue from the jaws of modernity is the fine art of the wet shave.
First, you’ll need the right tools:
- A proper shave kit You’re going to need something substantial to keep all of your shaving swag safe from the elements. I think our all leather flat shave kit is the best you can buy (Ed: so much so that we’re giving one away for Father’s Day, see next post), but you can see our full range here.
- A safety razor No laser-guided, multi-blade contraption here. I use a Merkur razor from Germany. Merkur is old school – they don’t even have a website and it’s identical to the Gillette my grandfather used. The best part is that you can forever jettison disposable cartridges: the blades last about seven shaves and are dirt cheap.
- The brush This is the real kicker here. Get one made of badger hair – it’s the best quality. Be careful, though. Some aren’t cleansed and you may need to boil your brush before your first use to get the badger funk out.
- Shave cream and aftershave I urge restraint here; nothing froo froo. I hew more to the no-scent or subtle stuff and avoid anything with paraben or alcohol as they dry your skin out.
Then, the follow through:
- Shave wet Ideally, right out of the shower.
- Shave close On your first pass, follow the grain of your beard. On the second, go perpendicular or diagonal to the grain. Finally, go against the grain for barber shop closeness.
- Control temperatures Use the hottest water your faucet will give out initially, but use cold water to rinse the blade. Hot water expands the razor, increasing the size of imperfections. When you’re finished, splash cold water on your face to shrink the capillaries down to size and reduce irritation and any bleeding.
- Styptic matches These are great for stemming any bloodletting and much more sanitary than the traditional pencil.
Let us know how your shaving adventures turn out.
SFMade Week wrap-up
June 4th, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 10 Comments.
Mulholland was lucky enough to take part in the first annual SFMade week from 21 May – 28 May. All week, local manufacturers were featured in their resplendent glory. Several companies organized tours of their factories and you could shop at over thirty retailers carrying locally produced goods.
To kick off the event, twenty-one manufacturers shared their wares at a pop-up shop in San Francisco’s hip Mission District. I manned our booth all Saturday and showed off our locally-made goods: High & Mighty bags and iPad sleeves, deerskin bags, and for the first time, our upcoming line of bison bags and accessories.
There were quite a range of range of goods to shop in addition to our leather luxury goods: greeting cards, jewelry, and flannel shirts to name a few. You could feel SFMade’s motto “Yes, we still make things right here in San Francisco!” come to life.
Stay tuned for more about the bison bags; they’re rugged, stylish, and true American originals.
April 22nd, 2011. Published under Road Trip Way of Life. 3 Comments.
Put “replace wallet” on your to-do list this weekend.