“My look is really clean and classic. It makes me feel like I clean up well. It’s styled but also understated.”
The world’s greatest athlete Kelly Slater, whose appearance at the Oscars yesterday was only overshadowed when the polyamorist Will Smith stormed the stage to belt host Chris Rock, has revealed the secret behind his head-to-toe Gucci outfit – his close friendship with François Henri Pinault.
“He and Kering helped start my company, Outerknown, so we were former business partners. Susan [Chokachi] and her husband are old friends and neighbors, so the Gucci connection happened naturally,” Slater told Yahoo, adding, “My look is really clean and classic. It makes me feel like I clean up well. It’s styled but also understated.”
Slater calmed his nerves for the big moment by sleeping in, eating brunch at Kreation Organic and getting a (cosmetic) facial at Melanie Grant’s West Hollywood clinic, which might explain his radiance on stage.
“I don’t get many facials,” said Slater.
Moving to tour talk, the just-turned fifty-year-old told Yahoo he isn’t, “in the mindset for the competition yet. I normally get in the right frame of mind when I start traveling to each venue. But the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach is the first contest where I surfed my first full Championship Tour season back in 1992, so 30 years later, it feels special to be back. I’ve won the competition four times and it’s been either feast or famine. I’ve either won or not done well, but I’m looking forward to it. I have been mentally preparing for it the past couple months just envisioning what I’m looking forward to in the waves and what equipment I’ll ride that will work best for certain conditions. Subconsciously I’m prepared but I’m not in the headspace yet for competition.”
Preparing to lose or losing interest?
Ominous.
His suit looked a little baggy and trouser length too long..I know nothing about fashion but have gay friends.
Next up… Pic’s of Salma Hayek’s Surf Ranch Gucci sessh.
Rented shoes.
C-Street is neither a wave nor a street in Ventura.
No wonder Kelly’s Outerknown is struggling if he takes business advice from a keyring seller.
soo good!!!
Less is moore and one and half minutes was about right. I think Slater will have trouble getting out at big Bells in that outfit.
I wonder if he’ll talk about having the vaccine for entry to Australia ?
Is his apparent lackadaisical competitive headspace due to it ?
Does he still have faith in bone broth as an all round cure for most ailments ?
I’ve ensorcelled my personal style by adopting unbranded Kmart / Target single-estate artisan sweat-shop-sourced t-shirts, in a range of drab earthy colours, predominantly ‘tracky-pants grey.’ My daily ensemble typically comprises the above tshirts which are usually worn in a sustainable manner for several days (unless venturing out of the house to engage, al la visage, my public fan-base) plus an elite consumer-grade surf-tech walk-shorts, which are light yet robust, an similarly low-luminance in hue.
Underpants; only changed once a year. It’s a luck thing. I know I can’t keep winning major competitions unless I keep them constantly engaged and live. On New Years Day, annually, usually once every 365 days, I ceremonially burn them in a secret location and the hide them beneath the rich humus layer of a deep forest environ. Thus sealing my divinely-inspired coagulations with that of Mother Earth and Her Enfolding Mysteries.
I’m considering a live broadcast to my fans, next year, of the conflagration and subsequent intermingling of essences. It’s the least I can do.
I hear that Chris Rock was treated to a slap-up meal.
You know, if she can’t take a simple joke about alopecia then it’s hair-loss
You notice how when people talk about Bell’s, they talk about the history, the stairs, the car park, the ampitheater setting…. no one mentions pumping waves.
Big yes, swinging way wide of any shallowness and into a FAT channel.
The tour needs to bleed off such venues…. let em continue on their own or go QS.
Mick fanning recently speaking of how much he enjoys the wave at Bells.
But yeah some guy named Hippy on beachgrit is who we should listen to.
It was cool this morning but it seems warmer after I leave the office and I’m wearing a six-button double-breasted chalk-striped suit by Ralph Lauren with a spread-collar pencil-striped Sea Island cotton shirt with French cuffs, also by Polo, and I remove the clothes, gratefully, in the air-conditioned locker room, then slip into a pair of crow-black cotton and Lycra shorts with a white waistband and side stripes and a cotton and Lycra tank top, both by Wilkes, which can be folded so tightly I can actually carry them in my briefcase. After getting dressed and putting my Walkman on, clipping its body to the Lycra shorts and placing the headphones over my ears, a Stephen Bishop/Christopher Cross compilation tape Todd Hunter made for me, I check myself in the mirror before entering the gym, and, dissatisfied, go back to my briefcase for some mousse to slick back my hair and then I use a moisturiser and, for a small blemish I notice under my lower lip, a dab of Clinique Touch-Stick. Satisfied, I turn the Walkman on, turn the volume up, and leave the locker room.
If only this were true!
Actually me most mornings in the Newy beach council toilets
need to be in there in a beater and a pair of stubbies at most – similar attire for the gym by way – that what you call style and understated!!
Nick off Pat.
Your business cards are eggshell right?
Don’t forget to return those videotapes.
Be kind. Rewind.