Notice how the camera operator pulls away near the end of the video to reveal well worn denim below the waist.
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Notice how the camera operator pulls away near the end of the video to reveal well worn denim below the waist.
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He looks horrible.
Talk about personal taste. What happen to his? Does he think he looks good wearing two thirds of a suit and a pair a ratty jeans. I suppose his shoes are drivers w/o socks. Who is dressing him these days?
I dont think we can really talk about his clothes until he stands up and show all the proportions and full colors.
Besides, he is a guy dedicated for classic clothing not for trendy fashion so we might need to undnerstand that point too. It is true that it is quite difficult to find a celebrity in a total classic clothing since the celebrities ought to hav somewhat marginally "chic" style.
Moreover, I believe loafers and driving shoes can be worn without socks. and If you want to talk about personal taste... it could be part of that right?
Though I savored every morsel from his earlier the books, Flusser the man remains a sartorial enigma. Not having adequate bandwidth/hardware for the video, I am left to ponder the still image. In it I see an aged man badly in need of both a good barber and a good haberdasher. Perhaps we can ascribe this to a NYC influence which sartorially went off the rails long ago, and where quirky is a too often a synonym for attrative.
As to sockless shoes, perhaps for those below the age of twenty.
... because he can.
His choice to wear denim, any kind of denim, with such an elegant jacket, tie and pocket square is unforgivable. The pinstripes come to an abrupt halt at the waist giving him an awkward symmetry. The contrast between the top and the bottom cries mid-life crisis. He must have been told they would only be shooting from the waist up.
To his credit though, his jacket goes great with his hair. I was all for it until the camera zoomed out.
To this day, 95% of all men I see who try to do the blazer with jeans look ridiculous. It just doesn't work. I think it's the textures that make it incongruent. I don't care what GQ says.
Personally, I believe he was told it would be a seated interview and he chose to dress from the waist up. His error, but the camera person took advantage and should lose his or her job in my opinion.
...But wasn't it here that we recently learned about his highly personal style and saw him sporting the same awful jeans+coat look? Should whichever blogger snapped this picture lose his job as well?
You call this a job?
Denim?
That must have been done at the insistence of the kids who seized control of GQ after Art Cooper's death and turned it from a connoisseur's journal into a Laddie Mag.
Why Flusser would go along with this, however, is anyone's guess. Middle age crisis?
As for GQ, I stopped reading shortly after Jim Nelson took over.
I agreed with pretty much everything of what Flusser said, but his outfit looks terrible. His ratty jeans look like moths went to work on them and his light-pink pocket square just doesn't work with the jacket. Still, video is good because of his rhetoric.
It's great to hear Alan talk about Wall Street. That is still my favorite movie in terms of clothes. After all these years I never knew Michael Douglas was wearing shoulder pads under his shirt.
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