Tag: style-heroes
Icons June 2020
Style Heroes: 1960s Alain Delon
French actor Alain Delon’s rebellious youth and disregard towards Hollywood speak volumes about his laissez-faire disposition – which was reflected, too, in how he dressed himself.
Icons June 2018
Style Heroes: River Phoenix
Inimitable in every sense of the word, River Phoenix was an accidental style icon whose apathetic attitude to dressing came to define a generation.
Style April 2018
Style Heroes: 1970s Marvin Gaye
A bonafide Motown hit-maker in his early career, Marvin Gaye shed his skin to become one of the most intelligent, outspoken and politically-charged artists of the 20th century.
Icons August 2017
Style Heroes: Marlon Brando
“He was the marker,” Martin Scorsese once said. “There’s ‘before Brando’ and ‘after Brando’.” The director was talking about Brando’s acting, but could well have been referring to the his effect on men’s style, too.
Icons August 2017
Style Heroes: James Dean
A figurehead for the disaffected youth of 1950s America, James Dean’s style was incredibly simple, yet remains a perpetual benchmark for the art of dressing casually.
Style July 2017
Style Heroes: Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly’s two-toned loafer-clad feet are some of the most celebrated in early cinema, but it wasn’t just his shoes that tapped into a new era of style.
Style June 2017
Style Heroes: Serge Gainsbourg
One of the more unintentional style icons of the 1960s and beyond, Serge Gainsbourg was a walking definition of French insouciance and alternative cool.
Icons May 2017
Style Heroes: Elvis Before He Was King
Elvis might be more well-known for his eccentric stage attire, yet his early style of the 1950s is the stuff of legend.
