Raising Sand, Shanghai
Well, not exactly a dead ringer. But this professor has a slightly-more-than-casual resemblance to former Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant. I knew him (Plant, not the professor) only as a frontman for the Zep, and only recently, discovered his 2007 collaboration with Alison Krauss. If you haven’t heard it, you need to find it on bittorrent, on iTunes, or at Amazon.
The professor does a good job with this outfit — making a tailored pin-striped suit look casual. The untucked shirt, white tennys and wild hair take the formal out of something you’d usually see in the boardroom. Or the classroom. Instead, he’s assembled an outfit good for wandering the Shanghai streets on a Saturday afternoon.
- MRKT makes the bag and other interesting felt items, but if you’re not in China, you can check this messenger bag by do loop Design, and a slightly smaller wool felt bag by byrd & belle
- the kicks are the original chinese sneaker, Feiyue.
- the glasses frames are vintage French celluloid from the 1960′s — originally a sunglasses frame — here are some more vintage frames.
- get yourself some rock-star hair
- and then wear it while listening to the grammy winning album, “Raising Sand”
[edit: unbeknownst to us at posting time, the professor is actually a prominent member of a band that riffs off Led Zeppelin: Dick Zeppelin's site, and their myspace page. good stuff. also, he has provided us with the contact information of his favorite tailor, so if anybody is in Shanghai and needs a suit, let us know.]
