GQ Designer of the Year

[MrBern]

DESIGNER OF THE YEAR: THE INCREDIBLE SUIT-SHRINKING MAN
His pants are too high, his jackets are too tight. So how did Thom Browne become the most influential menswear designer in America?

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_7639

Kind of interesting that Browne arrived at his silhouette by misremembering exactly how JFK's suit by a longshot.
And that he developed this style while living in LA.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Would you have expected them to pick someone else?

 

[Fletch]

He’s wearing ankle-high black athletic socks with his giant Frankenstein wingtips, because in Thom Browne’s world, you show ankle.

No reason; you just do. Because Thom says so.

The deal gave him a touch of mainstream legitimacy; the Brooks brand, which hasn’t had a truly Zeitgeisty adherent since Patrick Bateman, got a jolt of youth.

If a notional torture killer is ever a good standard bearer for the culture, maybe we oughtn't to give a $#!! about the Zeitgeist.

Fall in line, all you little men.

 

[dhermann1]

Inspiration?

Bobby Darin, maybe. Maybe Fabian or Rod Serling. Or maybe Charles Starkwether.

 

[MrBern]

Ive seen plenty of footage of `60s bands w/ short jkts & showing a littl sock. But I've never liked that look.

The FourTops

Elvis before the jumpsuits! What a short blazer!

 

[MrBern]

USA

BTW, gotta love it that that his line is made in the USA.

( the BrooksBros designs are made in Italy)

 

[Tomasso]

Kind of interesting that Browne arrived at his silhouette by misremembering exactly how JFK's suit by a longshot.

Jack sported his share of high water pants.

 

[Tomasso]

Elvis before the jumpsuits! What a short blazer!

These are Bolero jackets; Elvis seems to have had a thing for them.

 

[MrBern]

Ah, so it is!
Here's a better shot.

But still closer to what Thom Browne is doing than JFK.