Could it be that the lasting impact of the Super Bowl -time show of Kendrick Lamar will be … the return of Bellbodems?
During the rest of a fairly boring game (unless you are a fan of Eagles), the rapper on stage was materialized, flanked by dancers in monotonal outfits of blue, red or white, dressed in clothing that Team Lamar has clearly moved.
His Varsity jacket, tailor-made by Martine Rose, a British designer who is known for her witty and crooked sportswear, was covered with patches to please the lamarologists in the super dome. The front was ‘Gloria’, apparently a reference to the latest song on his latest album ‘GNX’. The back had a “plang” -insignia, the creative agency Mr. Lamar plays together with Dave Free.
There were other delicious elements on his outfit: a tilted appropriate cap with a feather brooch attached to the side, as well as a striking “A” chain some Online a head nod to the villain-like “a small” line in the Grammy collection “not like us” by Mr Lamar-a line that shouted the stadium at the agreed time. (Others offered that the “A” could be a kind of wink to Plang, although it also looked a bit like the Amazon logo.)
But the pièce de résistance, the item that people started to text me about, oh, two minutes after his performance, those jeans were. They were slim at the top but flared to the hem and bundled around Mr.’s black and white sneakers. Lamar. (The brand of these seductive jeans was not immediately clear. Since a few years, Mr Lamar has been styled by Taylor McNeil.)
Their Bleachy Blue Wassing was reminiscent of something that you would find at the gorge in 2000. Whether this is positive or negative depends on who you ask. Just like the issue whether they were more Laars-sliced or bell bottom. (I would tend to call them Woodstock-tinted bell bottoms. The flare was pretty flare.) Some online wondered if Mr. Lamar had risen The jeans of their mother. For my generation, this cut thinks in thinking of Britney Spears and Baby Phat. If you are older, your touchstone can be Sonny and Cher.
For the enormous audience of the Super Bowl, Mr. Lamar’s jeans gave a snapshot in how wide and bizarre the denim market has become. We have trompe l’Oil jeans, jeans with legs the size of a playground (mustard, the producer of Mr. Lamar, who came late in the set, wore a few of those) and stamped jeans with crystals. There is none dominant Trend in denim now. If you want it, you can find it. And the Bell-bottoms of Mr. Lamar are timid compared to some of the Wangedroof, based by holes that you can find.
I am not the first to note that, at least for men, the preferences of jeans width are reversed in the past mid-decade. They are Frat Bros and conservative politicians who now wear the slim jeans. The stylistic fearless? They are in denim parachute pants and rugged Rogers torches.
It’s a good thing that Mr. Lamar, a fearless sideboard if there was ever one, Bell Bottoms would support on the largest stage of the television. This man just wore a Canadian tuxedo of the Grammies. He attended Chanel fashion shows in Chanel from head to toe.
And as Mr. Lamar, who currently prevails over the rap world, can drip part of the influence in fashion, we may have to become familiar with the Flare again.
