By Mark La Monica
Being Fashion Week and all, I decided to get a little silly with my gear today. I put the American classic -- jeans, buttondown shirt and black leather shoes -- away for the day and emerged with an ensemble of ridiculousness.
We begin with the feet, which reside comfortable in a pair of logo-less white ankle-cut socks. Those socks are enveloped by a pair of white-and-gray Nike shox with burnt-orange swooshes and soles.
From there, we move north to the cargo shorts of the camouflage persuasion from my Summer 2006 collection.
My torso is smothered by a black Billy Batts T-shirt. Printed on this T-shirt is the image of actor Frank Vincent in a thin mustache with an image of the Italian flag behind him and the words "Go Home And Get Your Shine Box!" It's from "Goodfellas," just in case you didn't know. (Note: Every time I wear this shirt, I get at least four "That's a great shirt!" comments from the regular people. Fashion Week at Bryant Park, however, may indeed be the one place in America where this shirt elicits no response.)
On the head we have my signature black bandanna from my Fall 1998 line.
When preparing my outfit this morning, I felt I was lacking something (other than good fashion sense). Party promoter friend Jann said he didn't have any iced-out oversize necklaces with a cross, so I had to call an audible. I threw out a black, three-button suit jacket from Perry Ellis. Now we've got ourselves an ensemble mash-up worthy of the tents.
My new photographer friend saw me and said, "You look good today. You've been conservative this week."
Lawyer friend Tim met up with me outside the tents and said, "You look like the guy they give a jacket to so he can eat in the clubhouse at the track."
Giddyup and let it ride! I'm playing the Michael Kors-Carmen Marc Valvo exacta today.
Comments (1)
I'm having a very good day.