![]() ![]() He’s been thrown off of golf courses for wearing cargo pants. For a megastar with essentially limitless money, he dresses like he’s interviewing to be Sublime’s road manager. His fashion legacy was the Jordan jersey - it’s the sweatband halfway down his forearm and the baggy shorts and, obviously, the shoes and all the Jordan Brand apparel that came out later.”īy all appearances, Jordan hasn’t bought new clothes in 30 years. “There wasn’t a runway in the tunnel before the games, but he wore suits anyways. “His on-court style influenced people’s off-court style,” says Russ Bengtson, a former longtime editor for Complex and Slam magazine. ![]() Most notably, his partnership with Nike birthed a new breed of sneakers engineered with aeronautic precision and an ever-increasing dose of swagger arguably, the arrival of the Air Jordans in 1984 - and the subsequent Jordan Brand - is the single most significant basketball-related development since the three-point line was implemented five years earlier. His ritual of wearing UNC practice shorts under his Bulls uniform (thereby necessitating baggier bottoms to conceal them) eventually encouraged the whole league to abandon short shorts. In the 1990s, before intra-squad scarf beef and the scrutiny of League Fits, Jordan famously wore suits to postgame press conferences, making him a precursor to the wave of haute fashion-cum-streetwear that has swept today’s NBA. To watch a basketball game today is to vicariously rifle through his canon of style choices. Michael Jordan is, arguably, the progenitor of the modern basketball aesthetic.
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