Stephen Curry is infuriatingly good at just about everything he tries. He single-handedly changed the game of basketball, shattering the all-time three-point record and earning four rings, two MVPs, and nine All-Star appearances for his troubles. This past weekend, he sunk a walk-off eagle to win a celebrity golf tournament—a day after hitting a hole-in-one. And he’s so naturally charming that Drake took a beat in the middle of a sold-out arena show to hop offstage and hang for a little. So it was always disarmingly humanizing that when it came to dressing himself—especially when compared to the rest of this absurdly stylish generation of NBA players—Steph was more like the rest of us. Or that was the case, at least, until this very week.
Because on Tuesday, while in New York to promote his new Apple TV+ documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated, Curry pulled off the rarest of menswear maneuvers: a trio of red-hot fits in a single 24-hour span, a feat best known in these parts as a Harry Styles Hat Trick.
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He began the day on the Upper West Side in a crisp white tee from The Row and a pair of supremely slouchy trousers from LA’s Second/Layer. Then he swung by the Today Show in Midtown in an elite pleated tracksuit by the god Issey Miyake. And after that, he popped up in Tribeca wearing a sick tweed READYMADE x Denim Tears jacket and enormous black boots. Three completely different vibes, each pulled off with Mike Breen “BANG!!!”-worthy panache.
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Curry has received a sartorial assist of late from stylist Jason Bolden (who also works with the likes of Dwyane Wade and Michael B. Jordan), but the magic of these three looks is that they don’t feel wholly divorced from the way the Golden State great was already dressing. Yes, they’re more tasteful, elevated, and considered than what he typically wears in the tunnel before a game. But the clothes all still ultimately feel like Steph: simple, clean, as smooth as his shooting mechanics. It’s a helpful reminder that dressing better doesn’t have to mean venturing way outside your comfort zone—a little tweak in fit here, a smidge more texture there, and you, too, can go from underrated to wholly unbeatable in the blink of an eye.
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