Hi guys,

This is maybe a bit of an odd question but I was wondering of what brand the shirts are that Jagger wears on stage.
I was shopping for some but couldn't really find good ones so I may get lucky this way because the man has a pretty good taste...





Cheers,
Wuudy



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Most of them are custom-made

I went to the Hard Rock Cafe here in D.C. last week and saw that they had one of his shirts on display. He wore it here on the Steel Wheels Tour.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICK! (It's still the 26th here in the States.)

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stonesrule
Most of them are custom-made

You're probably right about that, stonesrule. But still, someone has to manufacture these great clothes.

Cheers,
Wuudy

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Wuudy

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stonesrule
Most of them are custom-made

You're probably right about that, stonesrule. But still, someone has to manufacture these great clothes.

ask Hedi [www.hedislimane.com] or Karl

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Wuudy
Hi guys,

This is maybe a bit of an odd question but I was wondering of what brand the shirts are that Jagger wears on stage.
I was shopping for some but couldn't really find good ones so I may get lucky this way because the man has a pretty good taste...

The shirt in the bottom pic is by belgian designer Dries van Noeten. Micks a big fan of the new belgian fashion invasion: Dries Van Noeten, Raf Simons, Martin Magiela, Ann Demeulemeester. All slim fit cuts.

It was funny to see his wardrobe on tour in the "TFi " videos.

Over the decades, Jagger has donned jeans and jackets by the Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquiere and T-shirts by the Dior designer Hedi Slimane.

I like the way he got dressed in 1972:




I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Chic Mick
February 5 2003




What does a mega-famous, 59-year-old lead singer with a tiny waist wear onstage? Ian Parker follows Mick Jagger into the dressing room.


One afternoon last August, Mick Jagger stood in front of a full-length mirror in a windowless room in downtown Toronto, plucking at the cloth of a pair of narrow, black satin trousers that had been made for him by Hedi Slimane, the designer at Christian Dior Homme.

"They’re a bit, a bit — for want of a better word — feminine," Jagger said, assuming the over-enunciated, borderline-camp accent of a Soho drag queen.

Looking at the trousers from one angle and then another, he said: "They’re all right to wear for pictures and that. But I don’t like the way they fall." They fell straight.

Jagger in the flesh is incredibly slight. One fashion stylist who worked with him said he had "the hips of a Spanish waiter".

"If you use thin material, it doesn’t have a flow. It’s too flimsy," Jagger said. Then, with faux impatience that did not quite disguise real impatience, he said: "OK, what else?"





The Rolling Stones, in preparation for their current Licks world tour, had spent the American summer rehearsing five evenings a week in Toronto. On this particular day, Jagger was trying on a rack of stage outfits with the kind of fuss that marks a change of government in a small country. He had asked for his dressing room to be cleared of all but what he called "the minimum number of people" — this meant Jagger’s fashion stylist, Maryam Malakpour, myself and five others.

Malakpour, an Iranian-born woman in her early 30s, worked on the previous Stones tour in 1999, and has also styled Jagger in his solo career. For this tour, he wanted to commission pieces from Slimane at Dior, whom he had met socially. He had also been struck by the handsomely weathered T-shirts made by Buddhist Punk, a London company.

Malakpour had the task of calling these designers, adding ideas of her own, seeing the European menswear shows and then, in June, arranging a presentation and fitting session in Paris.

At strict 15-minute intervals during this first showing, in a fairy-tale scene that lacked only a small boy pointing an impudent finger, designers or their representatives laid out costumes for the approval of the newly knighted Sir Mick.

Jagger ordered 100 or so items, most of them versions of the latest collections, but made in stretchier fabrics or brighter colours or with extra crystals to catch the light. (A rock star has roughly the same fashion priorities as a six-year-old girl.)

The clothes had begun to arrive in Toronto, where, during this second fitting, Jagger had the manner of an easygoing but hurried customer being shown property by an estate agent. He was due at rehearsal any minute.

To change, he stepped into an adjoining bathroom, then reappeared, saying, "Is the neck too scooped?" or "We are as red as red!" or "It’s itchy, too itchy, very itchy, super-itchy".

He tried on a sleeveless Buddhist Punk T-shirt emblazoned with a variation of what Rolling Stones people call the "classic tongue" logo, and two Dior shirts studded with crystals that spelled out "Mick" on one and formed a tongue against a black background on the other. He tried on a pair of black leather Nikes, explaining he has the soles doctored so he can spin.

But, as Malakpour said: "In the end, it's all about the trousers." According to Jagger, the problem with stage trousers is that they need to have some give - allowing him to run around on stage like a teenager - but he wants them to be properly cut, not mere leggings.

"You're in them a lot, more than anything else," he said. "They've got to keep their shape. And the trouble is, stretch fabrics start to bag. Round your bum or wherever, it all starts bagging, and you're endlessly pinning."

He went into the bathroom and came back in a pair of loose, dark trousers by young German designer Dirk Schonberger. Turning from the mirror to Malakpour, Jagger said cautiously: "These are baggy enough to move about in. I might be able to wear them onstage. But they're a bit dull, aren't they? He could do other ones, in different colours apart from grey, he could do . . ."

"Exactly," she said. "Red."

"Blue. So it would be a bit more swishy."

Jagger has been dressing for the stage for 40 years. The band's first manager, Andrew Oldham, was a "clothes fanatic", Jagger said. "He loved clothes, and that's what managers did then - they dressed up the lads. One of his greatest pleasures was to take you to the tailor. We'd have our street clothes made and our stage clothes, and that was that."

In the '60s, Jagger wore suits and thin ties (briefly), then mod shirts and corduroy jackets, then scarves and devilish frills, and the Uncle Sam hat and the black "omega" T-shirt at Altamont, California. Later, the eyes of the fans were directed more towards the Jagger crotch, which was clothed in embroidered, unzipped Ossie Clark jumpsuits and tight-laced knee breeches during Jagger's sporty, gay-quarterback phase.

Throughout Jagger's career, one look has remained constant: the hard male core (tightly covered Nureyev abs and crotch) that is teasingly revealed beneath a layer or two of something more feminine. There are similarities between Jagger's recent stage costumes and, say, his celebrated outfit for the Hyde Park concert in 1969; a white "dress", as the newspapers called it, over white pants. (Jagger described it as "a funny, flouncy thing . . . sort of peasant blouse, gathered here". He pointed to his upper thigh.)

On the Licks tour, as before, Jagger is likely to take the stage in a three-quarter-length coat, then do a striptease during the first songs; later, he will leave and reappear in a more ornate coat, creating a moment of fashion drama. Malakpour and Jagger call this all-important piece a "fantasy coat".

One fantasy coat had been ordered from Dior; others were coming from Italian label Costume National, New York company Body Worship and Alexander McQueen.

Sliding into a long Hedi Slimane coat made of red satin, which had four lengths of fringe sewn horizontally into the lining, Jagger trumpeted "Da da da!" and then bent his elbows and waved his arms up and down in a familiar flapping dance. It was a gesture of due diligence, not exuberance. Jagger's coats all have extra material under the arms to make this kind of movement easier. "A gusset," Jagger said, savouring the word.

By now, he could hear Keith Richards singing Heart of Stone upstairs. He went to join the rehearsal. After he left, I passed Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones' drummer and a famously enthusiastic clothes horse, in the corridor. I told him I was writing about Jagger's stage clothes. "That will keep you busy for half an hour, that will," he said, feigning scorn.

Two weeks later, on the last day of rehearsals in Toronto, Jagger was with Malakpour in his dressing room, modelling his Body Worship fantasy coat. Constructed from a dozen pairs of shredded jeans, scraps of leather and silk printed with design motifs from previous tours, and featuring the new tour's logo - a Jeff Koons rendition of lips - the coat was a history of the Rolling Stones.

"We could put Miss Venezuela across the back," Jagger said, with a fractional movement of his eyebrow, referring to the patchwork complexity of his personal life and his former relationship with Vanessa Neumann. "Twelve pairs of jeans? Makes me sound fat."

Clothes were an integral part of his performing, Jagger said. "Part of the process of going onstage is to become a stage person. And even if I wore these trousers" - he had arrived at rehearsal in a T-shirt and Dirk Schonberger trousers - "on the day that I put them on for the stage they're stage trousers."

The only time Jagger performs without first dressing the part is when he is drawn into an impromptu guest duet. "My first worry is 'What am I wearing?' Say I go and see Lenny Kravitz or Sheryl Crow, there's always a great danger of them asking you. They may not. You never ask, 'Can I sing with you?' You wait until you're asked, and then if you're wearing the wrong thing you're in trouble. The clothes are important. Guitar players always think it's about what they play, you know. Lead singers have another attitude."

He looked in the mirror and asked Malakpour: "More crystals?"

"I would say, don't you think?"

"Yeah. A bit. Just a bit more sparkle."

- Telegraph Magazine


[www.theage.com.au]



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Mick Jagger's inimitable style, feathers and all - Culture - International Herald Tribune
By Guy Trebay
Published: Friday, November 24, 2006


Yet arena rock, at least, still has a certifiable god in Mick Jagger. And, as the Rolling Stones blew through this honky-tonk beachfront city last week on the last leg of its Bigger Bang tour, Jagger gave a performance that was a master class in the genre.

As lithe as a boy, Jagger seems to defy age. At least he does below the waist. Grooved and sunken, his weather-beaten face betrays every second of his 63 years, and this makes it all the more startling when he prances and postures like some curious and gorgeous superannuated Pan.

It is Jagger's persona that a Stones show is built upon, and Jagger who inspires fans to travel great distances and blow the rent money on tickets.

The music draws them, too, of course, but there are few sights in entertainment as compelling as Jagger's almost vaudevillian brio, his eccentric presentation and his achingly singular style.

"Mick Jagger has been living on the style edge since 1966," said Joe Levy, executive editor of Rolling Stone magazine. "The edge keeps moving, and so does he."

Even a cursory trip through the archives of fashion makes clear that whenever designers as unalike as Roberto Cavalli and Tommy Hilfiger invoked some emblematic rock star, or rocker "icon," or rocker "rebel," Jagger was the point of reference.

Bowie was stylish. Bryan Ferry looked good in a suit. But it was Jagger who preened himself in a Mephistopheles cloak at Altamont; wore Ossie Clark jumpsuits split to the navel; and who appeared in a flounced neo-classical Grecian-style jacket to read Shelley at a concert after Brian Jones's death.

It was Jagger who flaunted billowing trousers designed by Giorgio Sant'Angelo, "mad things, beautiful things," as Tony King, Jagger's media coordinator for four decades, said last week. "From the start, the Stones had kind of their own look," King explained. "They were very much not the Beatles, four guys wearing the same suits."

In truth, the Stones dressed identically in their very earliest incarnation, wearing the matching suits that were the boy-band uniform of the British Invasion.

"It was in 1969, when the Stones made 'Gimme Shelter,' when all of a sudden there became a need to have a look for a tour," King said. It was also about that time when Jagger and his bandmates began affecting eyeliner and the dangling earrings that would eventually provide Johnny Depp with the visual cues for the character Jack Sparrow, his "Pirates of the Caribbean" homage to Keith Richards-as-dandy.

Even as far back as 1975, when Karen Durbin wrote a Village Voice cover article about the Rolling Stones, she was not alone in pointing out the gender games Jagger was already playing through clothes. "He was very, very androgynous," said Durbin, now a film critic for Elle magazine, and so avid a fan she claims to have seen the Stones 22 times. "But he was also simultaneously a little scary, a little hard and indisputably masculine."

Jagger's onstage dualities were not accidental, said Durbin. "It was all deliberate."

Nowadays, of course, gender blur is a karaoke setting in the music business. And while groups as unalike as the Libertines, say, or the Scissor Sisters, or the Strokes continue to pay homage to the rock star as dandified satyr, the much greater shift in the business is away from Rolling Stones-style theatricality and toward something more neutral, amateurish and anonymous.

"We would never get all costumed up," Mitch DeRosier, a musician with the indie band Born Ruffians, said by phone last week from Portland, Oregon, where the group was on tour with Hot Chip.

As an expression of style, grunge has been quoted so liberally by now that it rates a mile marker on the timeline of fashion. Yet compared with the look lately favored by young bands, grunge has come to seem almost baroque.

And as that has happened, so has Jagger's form of personal display been refined to the extent that he is like an essence of rock star: skinny jeans and cropped jackets by the Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière; tight glittering T-shirts by the Dior designer Hedi Slimane.

"In mainstream rock, you no longer see guys willing to take these fashion risks," said Dan Peres, the editor of Details, a magazine whose editorial mission basically descends from Jagger's robust sartorial and social experiments. "In this day and age, where if you have a great MySpace page you can go further than acts with labels promoting them and sell tons of albums without even having a label," said Peres, "no one wants to make a style statement that would alienate anyone."

No one wants to go onstage, as Jagger did each time the band played "Sympathy for the Devil" on the Bigger Bang tour in a coat and matching fedora designed by Miuccia Prada and made entirely of feathers, perhaps because no one without his history could wear a coat of cock feathers and not seem like a joke.

"Very early on we did the same thing" young bands are now doing, Jagger said in an interview this week. "We wore clothes very similar to what we wore offstage because we didn't have any money and that was the look." It wasn't until the end of the '60s, when the Rolling Stones were playing 50,000-seat arenas, that the band began, he said, to wear more "eye-catching" stuff.

"If I was starting out now, I would dress down but still hope to have some distinctive way of dressing down," he said.

"It doesn't matter if you're starting out or you're doing it for years," Jagger said. "There's no point in having a huge dress-up if you're playing a 500-seat club. And if you're playing for 50,000 people, there's no point in wearing rags."



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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Lanvin on couple of occasions - pic with Lady Gaga before the concert during the rehersals (do not know how to post it)