You don’t need bold patterns or loud colors to make a style statement. His rugged, dressed-down style-dungarees, V-neck T-shirts, wrinkled oord shirts-perfectly complemented his dusty blond hair, china blue eyes, and hard, almost weathered features. McQueen was at his best when he looked like he’d just washed up on the beach.
But writer James Wolcott’s description of McQueen as a “surf bum–hippie“ is most fitting. The star of The Great Escape and Bullitt achieved icon status because of the girls, the cars, and the tough-guy persona. McQueen showed up in a plaid Benetton lumberjack shirt, blue jeans, boots, and a long beard. It was a black-tie affair, and all of the biggest names in show business-Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, John Lennon-were in attendance. In 1974, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Liza Minnelli asked Steve McQueen to attend a fund-raiser for an actor named James Stacy, who had lost an arm and a leg in a motorcycle accident. But be sure to keep the cuff links simple-the boldness of the cuffs makes enough of a statement. “The day when everyone is very, very elegant,“ Mastroianni told GQ in 1964, “I will start to go around dressed like a tramp.“ He lived thirty-two more years-never happened.Ī white French-cuff shirt makes the gentleman. Every year he ordered a dozen suits-in English materials only-from his Roman tailor, Vittorio Zenobi, and his first stop in Paris was always John Lobb, the venerable English bootery. Offscreen Mastroianni’s taste in clothes was classic and conservative. As Marcello in La Dolce Vita, he’s needy, indecisive and sexually confused, but it’s Mastroianni-the man, not the character-who wears the hell out of that slim black suit and makes you forget the surgeon general’s warning every time he takes a narrow-eyed drag from his cigarette.
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No matter how many times he played the antihero, Marcello Mastroianni never could shake free of the “Latin lover“ tag the guy was helplessly cool.
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