How rapper Frank Ocean became a style icon, from flaunting millennial pink hair with Kendall Jenner to wearing Vans at the White House and launching new jewellery brand Homer
- Was his T-shirt at the 2017 Panorama Music Festival in New York a clap back at former US president Donald Trump’s transphobic tweets?
- At the Met Gala’s red carpet in 2019, he wore a Prada anorak over a suit … then became the face of their spring/summer 2020 menswear campaign
The long-rumoured jewellery brand designed by hip-hop star Frank Ocean, titled Homer, is finally out. And it was worth the wait. Among the first collection’s 25 pieces are cool, cartoonish enamel pendants and gold rings sculpted into the word “OK” – but what more is there to come? Surely plenty, if Ocean’s style from over the years is any indication.
So just how did the rapper become a style icon, and what are his most memorable fashion moments?
His chameleon hair
As Ocean’s music changed from “Channel Orange” to “Blonde”, so has his buzz cut.
It was blue in a selfie on Tumblr from 2014, because for that moment this “oceanman” said “long live seapunk”, according to his caption.
Then he went blond on the sides and green on top for the cover of his second album “Blonde”, which is about his nostalgia for his childhood. As he references swimming pools several times on songs Self Control and Siegfried, his hair possibly represents an attempt to return to his young “blonded life” (on Self Control) only to find it has changed to green (from the chlorine of the pool).
Later, in 2017, he appeared with millennial pink hair while hanging out with Kendall Jenner and Luka Sabbat in New York City, reported GQ.
His Japan-inspired looks