While we are over here working our fingers to the fucking bone on the content farm to bring you the most fire jawnz possible, Complex sometimes lets Jian out to talk to celebrities about stuff. But only if, like, traffic has been really good for the past week or so. Most recently, he was lucky enough to talk with A$AP Rocky about developing his personal style and Adidas Originals, who he just modeled in a campaign for (recognize these heaters?). Rocky also touched on how his style has grown up and matured since he blew up, obviously with the help of Complex's own, Matthew Henson, not to toot our own horn anything. Rocky dishes out a few gems and even compares his style evolution to choosing wands in Harry Potter. Some quotables are below, but make sure to check out the entire feature, especially considering it's Friday and it's not like you're doing shit at work anyway.
On his evolution since the first mixtape:
Things that I could never afford, people see me in more often now, ’cause I got the financials to go purchase them. [My style] definitely matured. There’s a lot of things that I used to wear that I don’t wear anymore, and there’s a lot of things that I wore before that I’m in love with now, or things that I wore a long time ago that I brought back out.
Why you can't choose your own style, so to speak:
Don’t get it if it’s not you, you know? And if it’s your thing it’ll be natural. It’s like…. You ever saw Harry Potter? ... Your wand has to choose you, as opposed to you choosing your wand. That’s what fashion is like, man. You gotta let it take control of you. You don’t know, sometimes it is stepping out of your own comfort zone, but it is what it is.
How it doesn't matter where you're from anymore in fashion:
It’s diverse. I went around the world and I see influences from Copenhagen, France, London, all inspired by stuff that New York does, and vice versa. I like the way fashion is going. It’s just like music—it doesn’t matter what region you’re from, you can adapt to any region for music or fashion. It doesn’t matter like it used to.
How to be fly and fuck models like A$AP (you're never gonna fuck a model, though):
The best thing to do is stick to your guns. I remember being poor and thinking, “Man, I wish I could afford those clothes that Pharrell is wearing, or Kanye’s wearing.” I couldn’t afford it, so I would get a girlfriend to do it, or I would hustle. All I cared about was my clothes. When I was still broke, I felt like I had more style. I still feel that way—well, maybe not for real. I just feel like there’s going to be another kid that comes along—maybe he’s not even going to be from New York—and he’s just going to represent fashion the way that I did, but better, or in a different form, and that’s all that matters. ... Not giving a fuck that they're models is what got me pussy. Like, I’ve fucked so many models because I don’t give a fuck about them being models. Fuck ’em, fuck ’em, fuck ’em, you know? That’s it.
