Photographed by our fearless lensman, Patrick McMullan.
If you’ve spent any time on the New York style circuit, you’ve no doubt come across idiosyncratic aRUDE magazine founder Iké Udé. With his dandified duds, the Nigerian-born artist, publisher and aesthete brightens up many an otherwise dull evening.
At an event for fashion icon Jackie Rogers the other night, Udé didn’t disappoint. He wore a custom-made tweed coat with a flapped breast pocket made up from his own vintage fabric by London tailor Anthony Worth, with a pair of vintage tartan wool trousers, a vintage wool waistcoat, and a striped shirt and wide tie by Stanbridge of Paris.
Further dandy details—as if he needed any—came in the form of a vintage red and gold beetle-shaped tie pin and the blue cornflower is his lapel. It was almost as bold a statement as aRUDE’s Paris Hilton issue, filled with blank pages.
- J.P.S.
