Guitars, fountain pens, shoe polish, pocket squares, shaving and drinking paraphernalia, handmade bags, wine barrels. What do they all have in common? They can all be found at Fortknight Men’s Boutique in Gastown. Okay, maybe the wine barrels aren’t for sale (or are they?) but everything else you can find here, and more. Walking past his store window and looking in, I just had to go inside and see what this place was all about. I asked Tyler, as a retailer, how can he tie together all these seemingly dis-connected products and sell them under a single roof? Sell a PRS guitar with a bottle of Taylor of Old Bond Street shaving cream? How about a made in Austria decanter with a nice beeswax shoe polish from Paris? A Jet City guitar amp with a Graf von Fabre-Castell fountain pen? What was his retail theme? His answer was simple… “I sell what I love. I love guitars, and I love pocket squares and fountain pens.” Enough said. Simple answer. By the purposeful and impeccable way Tyler was pu
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