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Believe it or not, the 83-year-old Vermont senator can teach you a thing or two about uniform dressing. —Yang-Yi Goh, style editor |
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Bernie Sanders’s Coachella Cameo Was a Master Class in Personal Style |
Sanders took to the Coachella stage in his ever-reliable uniform. // Matt Winkelmeyer, courtesy of Getty Images |
Sanders, somewhat famously, has little interest in fashion. He’ll shake his head at your $225 Nikes and attend the presidential inauguration wearing a pair of chunky homemade mittens, a surgical mask, and a Burton snowboarding jacket. Elsewhere, his regular uniform of a navy blazer, an OCBD, and a rotation of repp and micro-dot ties gives him all the hypebeast clout of a middle school vice principal. Which is exactly the point. Sanders’s style, whether he’s grilling RFK Jr. about his anti-vax merch or kicking back in the green room with Charli XCX, is as unmistakable and unchanging as his gravelly Brooklyn twang—give or take the occasional LA Dodgers cap, which he sported earlier on Saturday during his Los Angeles rally alongside congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently told GQ, “I gotta shout out Bernie. His style is very much his politics, and I love that consistency about him. He's definitely a style icon.”
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Sanders in a Dodgers cap during his rally in Los Angeles with congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which drew a crowd of 36,000. // Mario Tama, courtesy of Getty Images |
In his devotion to a uniform that’s as steadfast as his stand on universal healthcare, Bernie Sanders embodies the essence of personal style. No matter where you are, what the fashion world is doing, or what the people around you think is cool, personal style is all about figuring out what you like and what works for you and committing to it. Sanders, who was assuredly the only guy wearing a gold-buttoned blazer in Indio’s 90-degree heat (looking completely at ease nonetheless), does that as well as anyone. –Jeremy Freed
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