The GQ&A: Walt "Clyde" Frazier
GQ: What are some of the earliest memories you have of being stylish?
Clyde Frazier: Growing up in Atlanta, we didn’t have any money but my mother always preached neatness—”Whatever you got son, it’s gotta be clean.” Sometime my older buddies would loan me some fancy shoes or a sweater. Going off to college, I really didn’t have any taste. If I wore something brown, I matched it with brown. I was wearing penny loafers like everybody else, button down collared shirts. Then I came to New York, the mecca…GQ: And it’s been fur and cow-skin ever since?
Clyde Frazier: Pretty much. Everybody used to be dressed up. My teammates and I idolized the Temptations and that’s how those guys dressed. So now these guys in the NBA idolize the rappers, so that’s how they dress. I used to always go shopping if I wasn’t playing well. I’d go to the hotel room, I’d dress up and say, hey man, “I still look good.”
All these guys in glassless glasses wish they had half the panache of Clyde.
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Yours for $99.99 and $274.99, respectively, and of course they come in all thirty NBA teams. Some of the crystal ones are kind of beautiful, if you consider them as objets d’art and not shoes.
Source: blogs.thescore.com
Carmelo, Amar’e & Tyson at the Lure Fishbar back in December
Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony attend the Versace fashion show on 06/20/2011 in Milan, Italy.
