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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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Geoffrey Fieger
Bloomfield Hills, trial lawyer
Fieger says he dresses in a manner that makes him feel comfortable. That usually means an impeccably tailored navy suit with a custom-made white shirt and navy tie for court appearances and a pair of nice-fitting jeans, a T-shirt, good boots, and a blue-jean jacket for casual occasions. His suits are made at Paul Cicchini Custom Clothier in Birmingham, using fabrics that are carefully hand-picked by his sales associate, Rick DePanicis, who also helps with shirts and sport coats. Among Fieger’s favorites is a plush vicuna sport coat that he recently had made to give the blue-jean look an elegant edge. He says if he had to select a favorite designer, it would be Ralph Lauren. When he travels, he buys jeans, usually Lee, Wrangler, or Levi’s. His favorite item in his closet is his Lee blue-jean jacket. “This has been my style sense since I was a teenager,” Fieger says. “I know what works for me.”
Marvin Beatty
Detroit, co-owner, Greektown Casino
Marvin Beatty remembers the first time he realized he had a knack for putting together some snazzy outfits. The moment occurred when he paired a beige-and-brown parka sweater with chocolate gabardine pants and brown Gypsy split shoes. “Now if you know clothes, you know what era that was from,” he says with a laugh. Today, Beatty continues to cleverly coordinate his clothes, always dressing appropriately for the occasion, but with a little flash of style that’s all his own. (He has a passion for suits and boots.) Beatty has most of his clothes custom-made by Nick (Nick the Tailor) Cirino, Detroit.
Jean Dubin
Bloomfield Hills, charity volunteer worker
Dubin’s clothes are classic but avant-garde, high style and sometimes edgy. “I’ve always just loved clothes,” she says. Or, as her friends like to tease: Her favorite item of clothing is anything she can put on her back. Dubin’s favorite designers are Chanel, Azzedine Alaia, and Prada, which she usually finds at Tender, Linda Dresner, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue. She developed her well-honed sense of style at an early age and attributes her good taste to her mother. “I remember wearing designers as a teenager, like dresses by Courreges and Pucci,” she says.
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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!