Today is Lawrence Schlossman's last day at Four Pins and Complex, which is sad. But instead of being sad, we all decided that it'd be best if we masked any feels by aggressively shoving them away from us and making fun of each other instead, probably over a few dozen bottles of Budweiser. So, while reflecting upon Lawrence's career arc, and since some of us have known him for almost six years, we decided to take a brief sojourn and investigate the most important thing to Larry: his French bulldog. Just kidding. It's his style.
As the benevolent overlord of Four Pins, Lawrence has had his hands on the rudder, guiding the site's audience to the best of the best in clothing, lifestyle and memes. Even as it became a weird 9/11 truther platform, Lawrence's personal style was always Four Pins' beacon, and to understand one is to know the other. Or, you know, just look at what Kanye's wearing. Without further ado and with immense apologies to his personal brand, this is "The Complete and Absurd Style History of Lawrence Schlossman," all done in love. And, in the interest of full disclosure, he has no fucking idea that we're doing this.
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DO THE BERNIE DANCE!
I believe this photo was taken right after Lawrence started working at Complex. About a week or so after his first day, he went on a, like, a month-long romp throughout Europe, which made a great first impression with his bosses and set expectations nice and low off the rip. During this trip, you'd think he would’'ve doubled down on his Isaia and hardbottoms, but it really only did take one week working at Complex for LarrBear to drink the sneaker Kool-Aid. He obviously wasn't in full-fledged Joe La Puma territory yet (Quick poll: When was the last time JLP wore a collar?), but dude is definitely sliding off the #menswear map and joining us on the dark side, the side where we justify $400 hoodies as opposed to $800 blazers. His mantra of "Real G's move in silence like Boglioli" was clearly undergoing a very serious identity crisis, which explains his scoliosis slump.
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Lawrence's current everyday get-up is sneakers, black jeans, and the same fucking black John Elliott hoodie. It doesn’t matter if it's 80 or 20 degrees, that black hoodie is guaranteed to shows up. That thing has seen more memes and skipped more meetings than anyone could ever hope to do in their lifetime.
Complex hasn't exactly slapped us laborers in the forehead with any Hearst money, but dude could've taken the cash he made posing for some trash PF Flyers branded content and copped another jawn, no? He def. got the scrilla up front, but not for wearing these kicks out on the town mind you. I know this because these were put on the office free table the minute after this photo was taken.
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