He was dealt a bad hand but worked hard to change the stars. After leaving the Marine Corps, McQueen entered the world of Hollywood and quickly became admired for his anti-hero bravado, his sex appeal and his sense of style. Steve McQueen made everything he wore cool. Whether it was a polo shirt and khakis or a lounge suit, everything he wore looked better. He could be wearing the same shirt and trousers as your father, but there was no way they looked the same.
McQueen epitomized style, and he paved the way from the golden age of the silver screen to the modern movies of the sixties. McQueen could take anything and make it look great. From a three-piece suit to a pair of swim trunks and a t-shirt, he only wore what he felt confident in. Khaki pants were his go-to. He would wear them with anything from a plain white t-shirt to a cardigan and blazer.
He used casual sunglasses with business attire. McQueen was well known for bringing a relaxed look to a three piece suit. He would often pair his sunglasses with the color of the tie or print of the jacket. He also stuck to casual styles of sunglasses like the Persol , wayfarers and aviators. He stuck to clean lines. Almost everything he wore had clean lines.
From the collars of his shirts to the cut of his waistcoat, McQueen maintained a masculine and rugged look with very linear apparel. He rarely wore ties. Unless he was wearing a suit, he would likely never be seen in a tie. McQueen was a big fan of ultra-casual attire comprising of undershirts and bomber jackets.
Even when he had to wear a jacket, he would often wear sweaters or turtlenecks under the sports jacket. Of course, he could do that better than most of his contemporaries, but he was also one of the sharpest dressers ever to make his name in Hollywood.
McQueen — alongside Paul Newman and James Dean — sits at the top tier of male style icons for ever and ever amen, and the reason for it is this: throughout his two most active decades the s and s , he wore simple, well-made pieces that were impeccably cut and, above all, easy to emulate.
From the chunky cardigans and battered leather jackets he wore by day to the three-piece suits and silk ties he rocked at night, McQueen wore his clothes — they never wore him — and it was this sense of innate confidence that raised him from well-dressed to the coolest man on the planet.
The iconic actor and menswear maverick would have turned 90 today. So, in celebration, we've rounded up ten items that defined his spot-on style and selected some key tips for making them work for your wardrobe too. Cropped, unzipped and battered, McQueen used leather jackets like toast uses butter.
Invest in a simple design such as his ideally, you want to find one secondhand with a real worn-in look and style it with a navy jumper and white jeans also a favourite for casual attire done right.
Steve McQueen liked to keep his tailoring simple. Case in point: this super elegant combination of grey wool trousers, a black wool blazer , white shirt and silk printed tie. For that finishing accessory, he'd advise you go for a slim structure, stick to a dark shade, and let a subtle print speak for itself. Single-breasted suit? But on those gloomier days, what's the one practical essential to top it all off? A smartly cut rain coat.
He was no less of a speed demon offscreen and competed in both motorcycle and car races. At one point in , he raced in a hour marathon race called the 12 Hours of Sebring in which he and his partners finished first in the three-litre class.
They nearly won the whole damn thing, too, finishing just 23 seconds behind a team led by some guy named Mario Andretti. McQueen was a master at nailing the basics and making casual look cool. As a prisoner in The Great Escape he elevated the beat-up leather jacket to icon status. McQueen plays a millionaire playboy-turned-thief who orchestrates a bank robbery and then spends the rest of the film seducing the insurance investigator sent to crack the case.
Yeah, I went there. And in Suits , Harvey Specter not only dresses like McQueen, as seen above, but outright professes his admiration and drives his sick Mustang. Layering on too many of these pieces can make you look less like a style icon and more like a style wannabe.
Not so much. But the more good news is that you can get an affordable knock-off on Amazon for less than bucks, plus shipping and handling. Like the Barracuda, you can still get the Persol s with blue lenses they even market them as the Steve McQueen special edition. Rocked by McQueen both on and off screen, these can be found across many retailers. Amazon has a shit ton of options , as do almost every menswear store in your local mall. For my money, Banana Republic has the right mix of style, quality and price.
To really mimic McQueen, look for textured cotton or wool sweaters in a single color, like the one pictured here. While crepe soled chukkas are a little hard to find, plenty of brands make sharp-looking suede chukkas at a reasonable price.
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