‘The menswear guy’ on why clothing matters
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Derek Guy has become ubiquitous on X as ‘the menswear guy’. With more than a million followers, he is the go-to advice giver for men trying to find their style or figure out what to wear to a wedding. Derek also writes a blog called Die, Workwear! And today, he joins FT men’s style columnist Rob Armstrong to talk fashion history and fashion tips.
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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):
– Rob’s most recent style column is here: https://on.ft.com/4dGlyLX
– Rob also hosts our Unhedged podcast and writes the Unhedged newsletter: https://on.ft.com/3WWgUCm
– Derek is on X as @dieworkwear, which is also the name of his blog. Rob is on X @rbrtrmstrng
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend. I'm Rob Armstrong, the U.S. financial commentator at the F.T. |
| 0:08.2 | and host of the unhedge podcast. I also moonlight as a menswear columnist. And today, I'm in for Lila |
| 0:15.5 | Roptobulus. If you were on Twitter in 2022, you might have noticed something odd about your feed. |
| 0:23.0 | Just after Elon Musk acquired the platform, its new algorithm started suggesting tweets about |
| 0:29.6 | menswear to lots of people. Lots and lots of people. The tweets were written by Derek Guy, |
| 0:37.4 | and they and he became such a phenomenon |
| 0:40.7 | that people were joking that Musk's Twitter was going to be just about menswear. In the meantime, |
| 0:47.8 | Derek, who runs the blog Die Workwear, has picked up a cool million followers on the platform. |
| 0:55.0 | As Twitter morphed into X, he became known simply as the menswear guy. |
| 1:01.3 | Derek is with us today to talk about men's fashion. |
| 1:04.5 | Derek, hi, and welcome to the show. |
| 1:06.5 | Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 1:07.9 | For someone who is extremely online, you're slightly mysterious. I know a lot |
| 1:14.0 | about your views about men's style, a topic I care about a lot as well, but I don't know much about |
| 1:21.9 | you. I don't know what you do when you are not constructing elaborate and carefully researched menswear threads for social |
| 1:28.6 | media? |
| 1:29.6 | I wish I had an exciting answer for that, but I work all the time to pay for skyrocketing |
| 1:37.0 | rents in Walkable Neighborhoods, which is the other theme on my Twitter account. |
| 1:41.0 | Indeed. |
| 1:42.0 | So if you're wondering what I do outside of writing about |
| 1:44.5 | menswear, there's not very much I do. Right. And it's, and writing about menswear is your job. |
| 1:50.6 | You write articles. You're a menswear journalist. Yeah. In some way. I suppose, yeah. |
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