Bigger blues

Still adjusting with the new format of the site. Hope you'll bear with me as it will take time for me to replace current photos with bigger versions. Some, like runway reviews, I will have to leave as is. A few backlog posts will also have to appear in old image sizes.

I've been thinking about this for quite some time and thought the space will be good to declutter things, but of course, anything less than satisfactory will also be magnified and be more obvious.

But hey, it will push me to publish at a higher quality. So here goes. Caution: fly away with the wind.

Heather gray linen shirt and charcoal gray sweater with blue stripes: both thrifted; jeans, Havana & Co.; trilby, Zara; plaid silk tie, Polo Ralph Lauren; blue nylon sneakers, Acne by Tretorn; black leather belt (barely seen), Izzue

Kind of blue

Finally, my trilby deigns to agree with my outfit. This stands as my interpretation of the Miles Davis look .


Sweater, Giordano; thrifted shirt, Dunhill; pants, Human; laceups, Marlboro Classics; thrifted tie, Leonard; trilby, Zara

Miles Davis's album 'Kind of Blue' consists of the following songs: 'So What', 'Freddie Freeloader', 'Blue in Green', 'All Blues', and 'Flamenco Sketches'. Read more about The Jazz Age in an article I wrote about the golden era of the genre in the twenties.

Style icons series: Miles Davis

Cool as jazz
By Miguel Paolo Celestial
Published in 'Get the look', Rogue Magazine May 2009

Perhaps one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was vital in establishing more than one genre of jazz, with several fused from a variety of musical styles and disciplines. Davis was particularly known for his signature trumpet sound—clear, rounded, and “with no attitude in it”—veering away from the musical vogue of the time, which was a tremulous vibrato. The same could be said of how the great pioneer dressed, which avoided loud flourishes and stylish excesses. His outfits were mostly as cool, laidback, and unadulterated as his early musical output.

Miles Davis pared away what was unnecessary from his look—adding only what was practical, like a scarf or a trilby and transforming them into the subtlest fashion accents. He utilized chinos as basic elements from which he built his casual yet polished look—no different from the way he made music and brought both musicians and musical styles together in creative fusion.


Rogue Magazine's 'Get the look' section publishes alongside its articles a selection of clothing to approximate the discussed looks.

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As a new project for this blog, I will be attempting to get into the style of certain icons for my cameos, but of course these will be tempered and perhaps modified by my personal predilections.