On the other hand, this brings new meaning to the idea of dressing for success. After all, in the same week that he gave us a look inside his wardrobe, Zuckerberg also became the sixth most wealthy human being on Earth.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh do you know what today is?!? It's our anniversary! haha nah but seriously. It has been an entire year since we kicked this thing off. So, I want to hit you with something a little different. So, say you dress up every single day, all day. How much thought are you putting into what you are wearing? Does it slightly stress you out some mornings on what exactly to wear? Even dressing up during the day, there is no way I want to be in a suit for anything I have the option to be casual for. There is a movie, American Psycho(based off Bret Easton Ellis' novel, where a character opens his closet and starts describing his wardrobe. The film dispenses with this information visually in a single scene, but the message of both is clear: in Bateman’s world, any man who’s a success has to show it off through his wardrobe. "All it comes down to is this," says the narrator in an unguarded moment. "I feel like shit, but I look great." So, this exhaustion is not just something I have realized and made slight additions to my wardrobe to make it easier.A vivid illustration of how much the times have changed took place this week when Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo of his own wardrobe. Where a captain of industry once owned endless rails of designer suits and tailored shirts, Zuckerberg’s entire wardrobe appeared to consist of grey t-shirts, and grey hoodies. In a 2014 Q&A, Zuckerberg described how he saw getting dressed every morning as a waste of mental energy: "I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community." This is not to say that this sort of controlled minimalism is necessarily unfashionable, though. The Guardian’s fashion writer Lauren Cochrane takes a different view of Zuckerberg’s monochrome wardrobe: "I think it’s far more fashionable than his anti-fashion stance suggests. Grey marl is a definite thing (this season), as is dressing all in one colour – see designers using double denim, or Kimye in beige. It’s like a control freak way of dressing, but also a way of kind of suggesting that he’s too busy to think about clothes." And there does seem to be a recurrent trend among successful types for this sartorial minimalism: Steve Jobs generally favored a black polo neck with mum jeans; Segway inventor Dean Kamen always seems to be in double denim; while even Barack Obama admitted to the same impulse during an interview with Vanity Fair. "You’ll see I wear only a grey or blue suit. I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make." As always, you can not please the world. There will always be someone out there that has something negative to say and this held true for Zuckerberg as well. "Witnessing the mind numbingly boring array of Zuckerberg's ‘wardrobe’ content says a myriad of things to me," says Stephen Monaghan, the founder and director of fashion consultancy Sane Communications. "He has no time, he has no taste, he IS a computer – but also that fashion and flair mean nothing to him. Some people can happily survive on a ‘norm core’ monochromatic wardrobe and to an extent I guess it facilitates their life. I find it hard to identify with this, as colour is paramount to emotional positivity and expression. To think he has created something that changed the world is hard to believe as he barely changes his own clothes…"
On the other hand, this brings new meaning to the idea of dressing for success. After all, in the same week that he gave us a look inside his wardrobe, Zuckerberg also became the sixth most wealthy human being on Earth.
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