SAINt JHN shares his secrets and techniques to getting dressed
The primary time I met SAINt JHN in 2019, he sauntered into the GQ workplaces and cleared his throat.
“Folks of GQ!” he bellowed into our library-quiet, open-concept workspace. “My title is SAINt JHN. You won’t know who I’m simply but, however bear in mind this second, as a result of you’ll.”
After I meet up with JHN once more in June and inform him that story, he flashes his million-watt incisors. “I used to be like Babe Ruth when he pointed the bat,” he tells me over Zoom, from behind the wheel of a drop-top Porsche. “I known as my shot at GQ.”
He actually did. After a decade of cautious plotting—writing for Usher and dropping verses on Beyonce singles—the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Guyana-raised rapper’s inventory skyrocketed final 12 months on the energy of “Roses (Imanbek Remix),” considered one of 2020’s largest, catchiest, most inescapable hits.
Raf Simons’s first Prada assortment (alongside Mrs. Prada herself) had no scarcity of tier-one grails, however this outsized bomber in aubergine leather-based is bound to land within the Met sooner or later.Jacket, $6,600, jumpsuit, $2,340, pants, $1,300, and footwear, $1,170, by Prada.
Socks, $42, by Pantherella. Sun shades, $495, by Jacques Marie Mage.
“ if you’re about to exit, and also you look within the mirror and alter your outfit 30 instances? I did that,” he says of his pre-fame days. “Then final 12 months, I walked by way of the door and all people instructed me I used to be stunning. However I’d been getting dressed for a very long time.”
Now that he’s arrived, he’s profiting from it. There’s new music on the best way, massive plans for his Not A Cult clothes line, perhaps even a giant display look or two within the works—and SAINt JHN’s bringing no scarcity of confidence to all of it.
“I’m sure of the human being I’m, and I might’ve utilized that to any career,” he says. “It occurred to be music, but when I used to be simply on a ship, paddling the boat, I might’ve instructed the water, ‘I’m this attractive.’”
Right here, he shares a number of of his favorite issues so that you just, too, can dress such as you're well-known.
Off-duty staples
Like the remainder of us, SAINt JHN adopted a comfier uniform throughout quarantine that he's having a troublesome time giving up. “I’m by no means not going to be cosy,” he says. “I’m cosy without end. I don’t wish to dwell a model of life that doesn’t permit me to put on sweats. In case you bought a job, you gotta protest your job till they permit you come to work in sweats.”
Pyer Moss monitor pant
Not like the remainder of us, nevertheless, JHN's go-to comfortable uniform comes direct from two of the most popular designer labels on the planet. “The Pyer Moss nylon sweats, these are my favourites. They bought a complete windbreaker feeling, and I like the size—Kerby hit them proper, as a result of they lower off proper earlier than the ankle. It’s excellent, as a result of I would like my socks to be seen. Full show. It’s TV time for my socks. I’m in Bottega cashmere socks all day. Don’t tuck ‘em away or nothing.”
Fancy footwork
“Today, I'm actually heavy in my Lanvin skater footwear—those with the chunky tongue and the chunky laces. I'm residing in these proper now. And every time I'm not in these, I'm in my Bottega mules. They're like Crocs, solely sexier.”
Lanvin Curb sneakers
Keep shining
After I ask JHN about probably the most helpful factor he retains in his automotive, he instantly holds considered one of these tiny bottles of moisturiser as much as the digital camera. “That is an endorsement. Get this on the file. Love your self. Rub that in your elbows, your arms, no matter. By no means be ashy. Don’t play your self. Don’t disrespect you or the mom you got here from.”
Aquaphor Therapeutic Ointment (pack of three)
On the street, JHN retains two particular skincare merchandise with him always. “I at all times must have a moisturiser with SPF 30 on me, and lately I like Neostrata,” he says. “After which regardless of the place I’m, regardless of the place I'm residing, I at all times hold a bottle of Dr. Bronner's there—particularly the rose scent. Every little thing else is loopy to me. I don't need the peppermint. I don't need the lavender. Rose.”
Neostrata Pores and skin Energetic Restore Matrix Assist
Stomach up
JHN's final on-line buy? “I purchased some stomach button rings on Amazon. I don't have a stomach button piercing—I simply put them in my ears.”
Physique Sweet strong 14k yellow gold 8mm stomach ring
Exercise flexes
As anybody who follows JHN on Instagram can attest, the person is a verified fitness center rat. Recently, he's been leaning on a pair issues to remain trying recent throughout his hardest classes. “I abuse these Supreme gloves,” he says. “They're motocross gloves, however they're excellent for understanding. I like shadowboxing in 'em, too, since you see the pink and the yellow flashing. It makes me look a bit cooler than I ought to.”
Supreme Honda Fox Racing gloves
Down beneath, JHN stays within the Swoosh. “I'm often in some Nike Tech shorts, as a result of Nike's colourways are distinctive—currently I've been into pinks, salmons. And I want them to hit mid-thigh. Nothing past my knees lately. It's not 1992.”
Nike Sportswear Tech Fleece washed shorts
Celebrity shades
“I like a pair of black shades with a chrome end. I like when there’s a curvature, once they’re lower proper, versus being outsized. I don’t like shades feeling like a visor. I ain’t making an attempt to cover.”
Bottega Veneta cat eye body sun shades
Extra baggage
“I journey with a Tumi—the large, black, shiny joint. I put all of the tags from the locations I've been on the facet of it. Each time I’m going to a brand new nation, I purchase a tag, so it's like my passport stamps down the facet of my bag. Possibly I shouldn't have instructed people who—now they're gonna be searching for my shit on the airport.”
Tumi Worldwide Journey 4 wheeled packing case
This piece as initially printed in GQ US
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Images by Martin Brown
Styled by Jon Tietz
Grooming by Barry White for barrywhitemensgrooming.com
Tailoring by Ksenia Golub
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