14 DAY TRIAL // Money definitely doesn’t buy style. Billions of dollars mean nothing if one doesn’t have a sense of style or, as is the case of Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, can’t be bothered to care about fashion. He’s just topped GQ’s worst-dressed list.
Taking a look at the men of Silicon Valley, the magazine comprised a top 15 of the worst dressed men, who don’t know the meaning of the phrase “dressed for success” – mostly because they don’t need to, they’re successful already.
In fact, they’re well beyond that: the top three (dis)honors go to three of the most powerful men today, Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates from Microsoft.
In the case of Gates, GQ describes his style as a combination of aging Harry Potter and lazy preppy, mostly because he’s too rich and busy to have the time (or inclination) to think about the clothes he’ll wear next day.
“Rather than swag out in Armani suits, Gates takes the lazy preppy approach, opting for a drawer full of V-necks in every hue. If only his proportions were on point…” the magazine writes.
Steve Jobs is also a classic example of “if it ain’t broke, why fix it.” While his company releases an iPhone “every 0.5 seconds,” Jobs seems to never step out the clothes he wears.
“Steve Jobs never gets an upgrade. The Svengali’s self-inflicted uniform (black turtleneck, dad jeans, Seinfeld kicks) rival Superman’s in its homogeneity – a style blunder no AutoCorrect can fix,” GQ writes.
However, it’s Zuckerberg who lands at the top position, presumably because he’s the youngest of the three and, thus, fashion lovers would have higher expectations of him.
“Oblivious to the fact that jeans and ties come in skinny sizes – or that suits exist – the father of Facebook (and we do mean father) loves to recycle the fresh-from-Stats-class look,” GQ says.
“Zuck’s style is so poor, it even inspired a mock fashion line, Mark By Mark Zuckerberg, which thankfully doesn’t sell any actual clothing,” the fashion magazine concludes.