The power of the overcoat, courtesy of Le Corbusier and four well-dressed monks.
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“Le Courbusier”
We’d file this look under “advanced studies,” but if you’re a legendary design icon, feel free to try it out. Just grab a wide-shouldered suit with extra-wide lapels and finish it all off with a tiny bowtie and a pair of soon-to-be iconic glasses—and don’t forget the pocket square.
It might make you look a bit more diminutive than you’re used to…but you can make up for it with a few big ideas.
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Photo courtesy of the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris / Phaidon PressIf it hadn’t been for a certain dapper Swiss genius named Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris—Le Corbusier to you—the likes of Richard Meier and would still be playing with Legos. Perhaps the very first starchitect—and way cooler than Frank Lloyd Wright—the dapper fellow in the bowtie and black specs masterminded the Modern movement and laid the foundation, literally and figuratively, for all avant-garde design to come.
The Phaidon Press has just come out with a $200, 20-lb., 2,000-image tribute to this towering talent, entitled *Le Courbusier: Le Grand*. In it you can see how came up with groundbreaking designs for everything from chairs to skyscrapers, dressed to the nines all the way.
