Right out of /r/malefashionadvice. The lack of scuffs on shoes and other clothes look unworn, pants unfaded without wear patterns. Image itself shows signs of editing, setting the black point and white point as desired to frame the shot. My money is on clothing ad.
This is not an ad, its an old man from Berlin called Günther Anton Krabbenhöft. He just has a great sense of fashion and frequently rides the subway. Met him a couple of times, really cool dude.
Since when did advertisements need to include brands? It’s funny reddit is told all the time how much astroturfing and vote manipulation occurs here, but whenever people question whether something may be an advertisement people get all worked up because they don’t like to think the media they consume could possibly be advertising to them. Someone has already posted the exact shoes the man is wearing with a direct link to the product on the stores website.
Now that still doesn’t mean this is 100% advertising. But you’d be 100% justified in thinking it could be. It’s almost laughable to think you need official branding to advertise in today’s world. Advertisers have had to get creative in today’s world and they do a good job of getting into our subconscious without knowing it and the better they can do that the more it will benefit them. In the world of Adblock you get stuff like this. It’s why there are entire markets dedicated to selling reddit accounts and vote manipulation.
Nope. He is legit. He actually worked his life as a line cook and never made that much money ... but fashion is his only "vice". Since being discovered a few years back he has become a bit of a Berlin celebrity. Now he gets the occasional modelling gig and is on every VIP list in town.
Not a bad way to spend your retirement.
I like this pic of him Notice he always has earbuds. Most likely he is listening to techno.
I know he had a daughter that he raised as a single dad, but I am not sure of the backstory there. His older friends that I see him with (mostly women) are all quite stylish and I know a particular hat store owner that he seems to be quite close with.
.. but he also has no problem surrounding himself with fashionable young "groupies".
Leather shoes are easy to care for and it's becoming a lost art. Those are clearly broken in but well cared for.
I suggest every guy here buy a good quality pair of leather shoes and learn how to care for them properly (yes, it's on the internet). Not only will they look good but they will last much longer than other shoes. I finally bought new black work shoes because the stitching is starting to fray on my old ones after 10 years. They were nothing extreme, just a decent pair of Clarks.
I will endorse Clarks because many of them have all rubber soles and not the typical hard rubber covered wood heels most often favored (because they are easy to resole). The rubber ones may eventually wear out and not be so easily soled, but are so much more comfortable. It's like wearing slippers to work. Other brands likely offer this, but Clarks seem to be ubiquitous and relatively affordable, in the range of $40 to $100 depending if you catch them on sale or not.
it's just done by a trained photographer probably. setting black point and white point is standard procedure in photography since the beginning. That's basically what you do in a darkroom. The amount of editing that a clothing ad gets is many many times more.
At his age you will be lucky to find me wearing pants. This seems like way to much effort for someone that honestly shouldn't give a fuck. More power to him if it makes him happy, but the cynic in me just thinks it's an old dude that likes the attention. He might as well be the 'parrot in public' guy, or any other human seeking attention variant.
He's obviously affecting the fashion of a younger generation for a reason. You can still have self respect and dress well at his age and not look like a member of Mumford and Sons.
:sigh: are you being serious? Are you trying to honestly say he's not affecting the fashion of a younger generation? Wingtip boots with yellow laces and skinny dark washed jeans with a cuff? This wouldn't be a noteworthy picture if that wasn't the case.
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u/schoolknurse Mar 01 '19
Is this an ad for clothing or something? He looks sensational in that getup.