Jack Dorsey, Twitter overlord, went to Paris Fashion Week

This menswear fashion week, the Paris FROW had a new addition: the nose-ringed, perpetually beanie-clad Twitter overlord Jack Dorsey was spotted at Rick Owens, Dior, and Celine, as well as Karl Lagerfeld’s memorial service and a party for jewellery brand Chrome Hearts.

A quick primer on the man known as @jack. He’s the social platform’s co-founder and CEO, and as Mark Zuckerberg has come to represent mass, election-swaying invasions of privacy, Jack is perhaps best known for being highly ineffective when it comes to banning neo-Nazis, as well as being a problematic wellness guru. Pre-Twitter he very briefly dabbled in fashion design, and denies sending some of his beard hair to Azealia Banks to make an amulet to protect him from ISIS. His habit of ice baths, fasting at weekends, going to silent meditation retreats (a trait that made him the basis for the character Billy Bauer on Black Mirror episode “Smithereens”) and only eating one meal a day led the New York Times to call him the Silicon Valley Gweneth Paltrow. He’s worth over $5bn, and oh yeah, he fucking LOVES Rick Owens.

Dorsey – who has spent the last half decade pivoting from dressing like a ‘do you know who my father is’ bro to cultivating a Ricked-out, billionaire hacker aesthetic – has been an Owens stan for a while. Back in 2012, he tweeted that the designer was one of his top three faves (along with, wait for it, J.Crew!), before noting a week later that he was “So impressed by Rick Owens. Straightforward, dark, cool. Stunningly unique”. In September 2016, Quartz gave him kudos for “pioneering a different version of the laid-back CEO uniform,” trading Steve Jobs’ (and Elizabeth Holmes’) Miyake turtlenecks for Rick leather jackets and trainers. 

Source: Dazeddigital.com

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