I'm going to share a lot of music with you guys. Sometimes just if the fashion in the video is top notch, like it happens to be in this clip, but also because finding a soundtrack for your life can help you hone your style. I by no means want anyone out there making sartorial choices based on a genre of music or dressing in a costume. The link between music and style I would like you all to make, is that feeling you get from a particular song. For me it started with Tom Waits in high school, one of his songs just makes you feel like you're in an old bar and you're supposed to be wearing a thrift store suit. Music can give you the confidence to put on that hat and tilt it as effortlessly as Terrance Howard does in this video for his song, Sanctuary. Take note of how impeccably cool his band looks.
Terrance Howard's album went fairly unnoticed, if not mildly ridiculed. I thought it had, solid hooks, a consistent sound that seamlessly blended old school and contemporary. From a fashion standpoint, I loved that Terrance looked at his performing as an opportunity to take his clothing to the next level and he nailed it. He's a multitalented cat, and this video is bursting with style that really emphasized what I thought was unique about the album, the grand scale of the instrumentation, and the blending and blurring of both genre and era of music style. His voice is fucking butter on this track, and he shows why you should never buy a clip on bow tie, you don't get to then show off the "late in the evening" untied bow tie look, that looks so casual, and so classy. I call it, "Dean Martin, the morning after"
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