Make men dress great again
Written by Adam Bryce
Style icons can define the vision of one’s generation, decade, period of time in life where not much mattered.
I appreciated the way men used to dress. There once existed a bunch of style icons who we could look up to. They were impossibly cool but, at the same time, gave us inspiration to aspire to new heights. Gave us new meaning to classic style and, inevitably, dictated the way men would dress for years to come.
These days, we don’t have style icons. Social media has changed the landscape and propelled forward a whole new type of ‘icon’ and understated cool is far from the mindset of the selfie-obsessed menswear influencer.
Here are some of the icons of yesteryear who made menswear great.
Steve McQueen
David Bowie
Nas
David Lynch (left); Jimi Hendrix (right)
Malcom McLaren (left); Ian Curtis (right)
Glenn O’Brien
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Bruce Weber
Miles Davis (left); Paul Newman (right)
Lou Reed
Vincent Gallo
Joseph Beuys
David Hockney (left); Jack Kerouac (right)
Benjamin Clementine (left); Hedi Slimane (right)
Joe Strummer (left); River Phoenix (right)
Raf Simons (left); Joe McKenna (right)
Sam Shepard (left); Julian Schnabel (right)
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