Like his singing voice, Tony Bennett’s private type was supple, simple and certain of itself.
He resisted the temptation to alter his method to music when rock overtook the pop charts, and he largely stayed away from many sartorial tendencies that got here and went throughout his seven many years in present enterprise, properly sticking with tuxedos and neatly tailor-made fits, lots of them from the Italian style model Brioni. For extra informal moments, he went with slacks and a blazer, generally with a good-looking darkish turtleneck instead of a button-down shirt and tie.
Paradoxically sufficient, by sticking with the type that allowed him to really feel most himself when it got here to each music and style, Mr. Bennett managed to keep away from the entice of turning into related too strongly with anybody period.
In latest many years, when males’s style magazines celebrated the ring-a-ding-ding type of the Nineteen Fifties and early Nineteen Sixties in backward-looking style spreads, they tended to concentrate on Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and different dyed-in-the-wool members of the Rat Pack.
And because the different singers of Mr. Bennett’s technology grew to become topics of retro-chic fascination, he was nonetheless taking part in theaters, nightclubs and awards exhibits with a brand new batch of stars together with Stevie Marvel, ok.d. lang, Elvis Costello, the Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers, Bono, Sting, Celine Dion, John Legend, Amy Winehouse and Girl Gaga.
“The one factor that lasts is high quality — fits, music, individuals,” Mr. Bennett stated in a 2010 interview. “It’s all the identical. My fits are very costly however they by no means exit of style, and I can maintain them for as much as 20 years.”
