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FeedThe 29 Best-Dressed Detroiters of 2008
It’s something retailers and the international couture community have known for years: Detroiters know fashion. Photographs by Joe Vaughn
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It’s something retailers and the international couture community have known for years: Detroiters know fashion. Just check the beautiful people on parade at the Auto Show Charity Preview, Sunset at the Zoo, and the Fire Ball.
It’s a scene worth noting, which is why we asked metro Detroit fashion journalist Chuck Bennett to name names for our first-ever best-dressed list. A popular fixture at all the parties in town, Bennett consulted his little black book and offered 29 names — only a fraction of the people worthy of the honor.
We thank our high-profile group for making time to be photographed. Their portraits appear in no particular order on the following pages.
Chauncey Billups
Bloomfield Hills, Detroit Pistons
Billups likes everything coordinated when he gets dressed, even if he’s just wearing jeans. In fact, one of his favorite looks is jeans with a beautiful sport coat and a highly detailed shirt. His style is conservative with a flair, and sometimes outright fashion-forward. Billups has all of his clothes custom-made. His suits are crafted in Denver at Clothing by André. His more casual looks, including his jeans, are made by Ray Hines and Herman Masters at Paul Cicchini Custom Clothier in Birmingham. It’s important, he says, that his clothes not only look good, but feel good as well. He spends a great deal of time selecting the softest, most luxurious fabrics for his garments.
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Reader Comments:
When I received my issue and looked at this feature, I thought perhaps I had my dates mixed up and this was HOUR for April 1st.
With only a few exceptions, this is an excrutiatingly bad dressed group. The author has mistaken "trendy" for elegant.
HOUR always shows the same people in their issues...we need a little more diversity in the photos. Possibly feature people that don't know employees of HOUR enough to get into the magazine.
Do you really think it is appropriate to dedicate an issue to millionaires and how they dress? Since Michigan has one of the worst economies in the nation, was this worth the time and space you allocated to it? I also found it disgusting that one of the woman, who apparently had no profession, was wearing an animal skin/fur. Perhaps you should perform a public service and do a story on how 50 million animals a year are killed, many skinned alive (a practice common in China) so that some Detroit "socialite" can show how well she's dressed. Personally, when I see someone adorning themselves with animal fur, it looks like something out of prehistoric times. Oh, if only we could evolve a little quicker!