A.P.C, Gucci, Michael Kors, Band of Outsiders, and Dolce & Gabbana all have a common inspiration this season and it isn’t Don Draper. WSJ explains why men’s fashion is obsessed with Steve McQueen He didn’t just seduce women with chess, he wore cardigans, turtlenecks, even silk paisley print pajamas in Bullitt without looking effete or like he was trying at all. Pictures of McQueen even “adorn the ‘mood’ bulletin boards used in-house to inform J. Crew’s collections, says Frank Muytjens, head of men’s design.” Bizarrely, motorcycle maker Johnson Motors has created a line of “McQueen-inspired” outfits which are kind of Ed Hardy-goes-to-Army/Navy-Surplus (You can have his surname stamped to the back of your blazer like a sororiety girl’s Juicy sweatpants.)
The Bullitt chase scene on Google Maps. Also a Risky Business map “detailing Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay’s exploits in a gold Porsche 928.”
The “Steve McQueen of French literature” JMG Le Cléziowon just won the Nobel prize. Maybe more of his work will finally be translated into English? Here’s NPR on “The Best Foreign Books You’ve Never Heard Of” (via.) And Christopher Fowler has a column in The Independent on “forgotten authors.” No 8: William Sansom sounds incredible: “London’s closest equivalent to Franz Kafka” (also compared to Henry Green and JG Ballard, who is writing memoir now with the working title “Conversations with My Physician.”) Previously.
Part of Blobfest the 50th anniversary of the Blob: Steve McQueen Look-Alike Contest. Nice!
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