Do Men Have Icons?

David Beckham, the main icon for men

There’s a story when I went to barbershop. The barber asked to the customer what kind of hair that he’d like to have. He said that he wanted a style like David Beckham. Then I couldn’t help but wonder do men only have one icon, only for their hair?
It’s different from women. They have Kate Moss, Princess Diana, or Anna Wintour. Black women have Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama who always dress perfectly from head to toe. Even fashion freaks have Isabella Blow and Daphne Guiness. They have someone to look up to when they dress.
On the other side, men are more experimental. People that they (fashion lovers) look up to constantly change, and they always look for items that are trends. I personally never look up to someone. One time I really wanna look like Johnny Depp (yeah, freak), the next day I wanna look like Nolan Funk (which is, you know, cool). One of my friends is also influenced by different things especially Asian style. He tries different combinations of hair, tees, and pants. He experiments. So I got into this conclusion that men generally only have an icon for their hair.
Maybe someday when men’s fashion is equal to women’s, we will hear something like, “Hey Johnny Depp is my fashion icon and I wanna look like him!” from men.

Changing Something When You Are… Something

Some things don’t need to be changed. But in fashion, if you are a powerful or influential person in the business, what would you change?

A campaign to save Anna Wintour, just because she's powerful.

Mine is to create the exact boundaries between men fashion and feminism, because the line is getting Blurry. Not to mention big brands like J.W. Anderson that always make the collection for men that has feminism side. It’s one of the powerful characters in men fashion, knowing that a lot of men already have the feminism style. But for me, it really needs the exact boundary. Remember when Burberry styled their models in quite feminist style in their AW14 show? Even though they really want to put that in their collection, maybe they can more style their models like Versace (which had a bolder concept) and it should really different from J.W. Anderson which basically has a feminism from the first time. I was actually inspired by the risk that Anna Wintour took earlier in her career. She risked herself because she wanted to change the concept of Vogue’s cover. But she was right and Vogue is now one of the biggest magazines in the business.
Changing something is not quite necessary when you are someone in the field. You can develop what does already exist. But changing something can put you into the list of people that must be considered, just like Anna.