IN THE MOOD FOR AN ICON
—Ask any cool cat about his Cuban collar, pleated trousers and two–tone loafers, chances are he’ll cite rockabilly pioneer Charlie Feathers, punk rocker Mike Ness, possibly Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner, or even Harry Styles. Never Elvis Presley. He is the ultimate icon, a symbol of such immense portent, imitated and reinvented so many times (and will be again in Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming biopic on the singer’s rise to fame and his complex relations with his manager), that it’s hard, especially for younger generations, to mention him without raising an. And most of all because he never became stuck in a style rut. His look evolved, but in a deliberate, coherent way. It played as essential a role as his music — if not more so.
