GQ Magazine Calls Russell Westbrook the Kate Moss of the NBA

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....And admits that he would enjoy wearing a skirt...



The NBA's Most Stylish Players: Profiles: GQ

Even in a league that's warped from "pinstriped spinnaker on draft night" to "pure line cut slim enough to make Beckham look like a slob," Russ is a radical: His style is a punk provocation, a sartorial troll, and most crucially a full-on style, not just a series of outré outfits that no other player has the guts to wear. He's swinging a leather Dopp kit with his right arm in a repetitive motion that could only be described as swag—young, black, and Oi!—and generally looking like he's striding out of Malcolm McLaren's London SEX shop in 1976. Every element of hiscostume is an extension of the identity he projects: part worldly NBA superstar, part suedehead hooligan.

While Kobe Bryant can stand outside the Lakers locker room and proclaim to me, "I'm the Valentino of the NBA," as he explains that he's leaving "the preppy-hipster look" to the younger generation, Miami's swaggy Big Three—LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh—cannot relax. Not in a league where Amar'e Stoudemire can be found posting up in the front row of the Lanvin show at Paris fashion week, where Rajon Rondo's retinue is trying to persuade Givenchy to pour a custom mold exclusively for his size 13 feet, where Steve Nash can pull the faux-disaffected Clooney, brushing off my questions about his style with an "I don't take it that seriously" while going Gatsby (that's Kobe's nickname for him) in a suit from a Canadian made-to-order Internet clothier that he has a financial stake in.

A few days later, Westbrook's publicist tells me that within certain rarefied fashion circles, RW is known as "the Kate Moss of the NBA." Evidently somebody at Vogue wrote this to her in an e-mail. When I ask Russ how he feels about being compared to a female British supermodel famous for making heroin chic and saying things like "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," he assures me he's cool with it. "It's a little different," he says. "But I think it got said because some people are not afraid to do certain things or wear certain stuff. You have to have a certain swagger about you." Even Westbrook has his limits, of course—Kanye's infamous leather kilt, for instance. Though in his next breath Russ allows that he'd "be open to it if it were a slimmer fit."

 

[AVXL]

Yea I read that BS earlier today. Russ gets credit in publications like GQ for wearing off the wall shyt, but most of the shyt he wears is really, really tacky. Why is that so hard to admit?

 

[duncanthetall]