Best dressed males on the concert catwalk
mainWe have been challenged on Twitter to provide a balancing post to our occasional fashion output.
Here’s a selection from our archives:
I Off the shoulder organist
2 The doctored pianist
3 Shirtsleeved chic
4 Chen up
5 Siemilar
6 Maestro casual
7 Retro Finn
8 The nah look
9 Leisure man
10 Dressing gowned
Lorin Del Monaco
https://fcbayern.com/museum/de/news/2014/07/lorin-maazel
I would give #1 of this rating to clown Yannick.
He enjoys an exclusive expensive hotel staying while Met musicians have not been paid almost a year.
What a hypocrite he is…
Yannick is a 9 Leisure man if someone doesnt know.
He is promoting, and thanking a hotel. The owners of the hotel have provided badly needed financial support to his orchestra in Montreal during the pandemic, which has helped this fine orchestra perform a partial, online season of concerts.
Probably Yannick has to many duties.. And he can’t manage all that..
Has he done anything to help Met orchestra? As I know he did zero. Thats why many Met musicians has to leave NY. They cant afford leaving there…
No leader……
This is not PC! Why the gender discrimination? I want Yuja pics!
Balance is discrimination!
With regard to #1: When you’ve got arms and shoulders like his, why not show them off? He’s still modestly attired compared to Momma Longlegs Astanova
Another crucial difference: he can play his instrument
Reminds me of classic Right Said Fred!
“I’m too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I’m too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan
New York, and Japan
I’m too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I’m disco dancing
‘Cause I’m a model, you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah, on the catwalk
On the catwalk, yeah
I shake my little tush on the catwalk”
Undress Nelsons!
https://slippedisc.com/2020/01/andris-nelsons-played-trumpet-at-viennas-new-year-concert/
French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is hands down the best dressed male classical artist out there! He is dressed by British designer Vivienne Westwood & he’s always impeccably elegant and stylish. He’s usually understated – but rises to any occasion. When he played with Yuja in LA, he matched her extroverted fashion style perfectly, down to his red soled Louboutin shoes! Thibaudet is a classical fashion icon & leaves everyone else you’ve mentioned in the dust!
And plays very well!
Excellent pianist, and dapper.
Does he still wear red socks?
I remember him wearing bright red socks when he played at the Last Night of the Proms in London some while ago.
Best Dressed Conductor? The bar is very high in this category. I think the prize has to go to Carlo Maria Giulini.
A few years ago I spotted Thomas Hampson in a Vienna restaurant and he was dressed like a Vogue Hommes cover. Yes, there was a “foulard” costing a month of my salary.
For me the most suitable onstage attire is whatever attracts the least attention.
I nominate Stjepan Hauser for most improved. He’s wearing more clothes in his latest videos & looking pretty sharp.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iv2i2YUDgE
Of course his shirtless videos are very nice, too! 😉
Japanese conductor Eiji Oue deserves special mention for creativity. He’s the only conductor I’ve ever played for who completely changes his outfit for the 2nd half of the concert!
Andreas Ottensamer leaves the competition in the shade …
That’s not the same thing and you know it.
I agree with Martin about Andreas Ottensamer. But speaking of well dressed male wind soloists I’d definitely include Sir James Galway. Sir James is a very sharp dresser & it’s always interesting to see what he’ll wear as a soloist. He captures the eyes as well as the ears!
I understand that pianist Stephen Hough is regarded as one of the classical world’s best dressed soloists. Always perfectly attired!
Despite his often brusque manner, Pinchas Zukerman is quite refined and elegant in his fashion choices. You have to look closely to see the excellent tailoring, fine materials and & expensive looking comfortable concert shoes but I’d certainly include him on the Best Dressed List!
Thinking back to a lot of years of concert-going … nobody looked more elegant and appropriately attired in the standard (now “old fashioned”) formal concert attire than violinist Zino Francescatti. And what a perfect violin posture he had.