Мужчина коллекционирует шарфы уже 30 лет, предпочитая женскую моду для самовыражения

I’ve been buying scarves for 30 years, so I have quite a collection. I used to buy vintage ones from a shop run by Roy Luckett, a vintage expert from the UK. He had a bin that was loaded with scarves, and every week I’d pop in there and go through this bin of silk and rayon and cotton. That’s where I started. I wanted to buy something, and I didn’t have the money to buy a suit or an overcoat. But I did have the money for a scarf. I still buy them from literally anywhere that seems to be making them. And while I don’t recall exactly where I got the one I’m wearing in this photo, I know it was from the women’s department. I’ve always had this notion that women have more fun with clothes than men. I love menswear, but the language that we use to interpret it is often about being cool or masculine or stuff like that. It doesn’t lend itself to being as expressive as I’d like. I often find womenswear more interesting and more reflective of how I want to communicate through clothes. There’s also this idea of the “tasteless” 1970s, when you’d see someone like Yves Saint Laurent or Roger Moore wearing scarves. It looked kind of challenging to the contemporary eye, but I just found it fun. These guys were enjoying clothes, and that’s what I wanted to do. I tend to dress for myself, but it hasn’t always chimed well with everybody else. So when I started wearing scarves and got a funny look, I wasn’t put off any more than usual. I’m sure I still get funny looks; I just don’t notice them. Photograph by Florence Sullivan