Fashion
September 8, 2014

Menswear and A$AP Rocky have a special connection. The 23 year old Harlem MC has an obsession with purple kush, purple drank and high fashion – Raf Simmons, Rick Owens, Jil Sanders, Alexander Wang, Givenchy, Goyard, Margiela, Comme des Garcons, A.P.C, Y-3… you know where I’m going with this.

What’s interesting to note is that his love of fashion didn’t come about when he hit the big time, “At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren,” Rocky told Mr Porter, “But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans. I was into Prada and Dolce & Gabbana at the time and that’s why I started to wear tight jeans, because I wanted to be a model. I started to do freelance work for Calvin Klein so I was slim and it just stuck.”

He may just have a stylist but the guy has a knack for pulling off high-buttoned collars, tighter fitting jeans, bold prints, and bright colours. I mean come on, any man that can pull off head to toe Birds of Paradise by Givenchy Men’s 2012 can refer to himself as “that pretty mother fucker” in my books all day errr day.

Check out his interview with MR Porter here

Word By Melisa Macey

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