Friday 5 March 2010

Brother Sharp, the handsome (Chinese) vagabond

Each morning, fashionistas spend four and a half hours getting ready. Just ask Gok Wan. They toss and turn all night trying to predict next season's killer look. They scour look books 'til they get paper cuts. They poison their peers just to get those elusive front-row runway seats.
But it's all to no avail. The huge effort to look good, and on-fashion, usually spawns horrific results. Just ask Gok Wan.
And the real sickener for dedicated fashion monsters is that it's the people not trying one iota who look by far the best.
Take Brother Sharp. He's homeless and smokes like a chimney. He's also the biggest thing to hit China since rice. That's because a few snaps taken of the dapper chap shuffling around his home city of Ningbo have spread like wildfire on the net and seen him hailed as the most handsome and fashionable man in Asia. He is lauded for his shabby chic style - the tousled hair, the effortless layering. Women want him ie
That frowning look…
Ai yo! My little heart!
Really so handsome!

And men want to be him.

Via The Independent

1 comment:

  1. Love this photo - effortless coolness.
    Can't imagine what the wafting trail behind him is like....but fashion has it's price!

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