This is a quick style note on brother duo Everyone You Know’s fresh drop, a live sesh of their song “Seen It All”.
The video cuts between family photos and Rhys singing against drying laundry in the background. It’s pretty cool, pure EYK.
In an unprecedented style move, Rhys seems to have decided to bust out the turtleneck in the middle of July.
To be fair it’s not like a thick knit, but a zip-up, not unlike the track jackets the bros like wearing.
Why am I commenting on this? Well, maybe I’m being nostalgic about going out and dressing up. You see, here in Manila, it’s ridiculous to wear a hot fit any time of the year. It actually turns heads, funny enough. But if you’re committed, nothing is stopping you. I have a pal or two who have been seen out wearing synthetic fur. I mean, more power to them.
Turtlenecks also happen to remind me of a very specific epoch, when I was really into turtlenecks. I think to myself, where have I seen this fit before? Bingo! It’s pretty similar to how I dressed Paulo Avelino on the cover of Scout some time ago, cream jacket and all. Hard to say where the style inspo came from. Maybe I was thinking about Norman Stansfield in Léon: The Professional. He doesn’t really wear a turtleneck though, so you tell me.
Remember those JW Anderson zip-up neckbands? They still sell them apparently, if you got USD 155 to spare. I remember those being nothing short of a revelation—you get the neck coverage you need without having to commit to the arms, etc. “Is it a neck brace?”, Anna Wintour once asked, in half reproach. Well, we thought maybe it was a scarf.
Come to think of it, 2015 or thereabouts was a time of the evocatively covered-up neck. I remember the Kim Jones-era silk scarfs at Louis Vuitton, at a spring show at that. Kinda tricky, though, IRL. I tried it once myself and everyone was certain I was covering a hicky—which I don’t deny, but still, that was not the whole story.
I digress. Check out “Seen It All”-from-home below.
