As the Tate Modern prepares to open its brand-new exhibition, a menswear expert- and Warhol superfan- explains why the creator continues to impact on personal style
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“Artists aren’t supposed to dress up and I’ll never look right anyway, ” Andy Warhol emits in Bob Colacello’s incredible biographical Holy Terror volume. It’s sarcastic, given that when anyone talks about husbands having a sartorial garb, I ever think of Warhol. Specifically, the blazer, shirt, affiliation and jeans era. He often too had a plastic carrier bag in hand, with two copies of his periodical Interview inside to give out to capacity advertisers. Warhol was never not working. He was his art.
Warhol’s dedication to jeans is also something of a personal obsession; I recently bought three pairs of yield Levi’s – his favourite denim label. Arguably, one of the best denim-related fibs is of Warhol preventing his Levi’s 501 s on under his tuxedo dres- he was going to the White House for the first time- because the trousers were itchy. Then there is the picture of him skating in jeans and a blazer, or a wheel neck with New Balance trainers, Basquiat in the foreground, topless and weight-training.
Read more: theguardian.com
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