Is
, the lead singer of
, the most stylish man in rock?
And is the video for My Chem’s Welcome to the Black Parade the most epic and visually riveting music video in recent memory?
It’s no surprise that Way’s musical career comprises such a powerful visual element — he did start out as an animation and graphic artist, after all.
Before bleaching his hair and going all pseudo-military for 2006, raven-haired Way dabbled in the melodramatic world of pasty skin set against blood-red and jet-black backdrops.
The band’s gut-wrenchingly phenomenal funereal-dance tribute to Helena was one of the greatest MTV hits of last year and cemented Way’s tragi-dramatic is-he-about-to-start-weeping-or-not balls-to-the-wall performance style in the minds of style-fiends everywhere. As for fashion repercussions (or “Get the Look”), check out the winter coat and suiting rails from European labels like Marlene Birger and Junya Watanabe Comme des Garcons from all sorts of stores like Barneys, Intermix, and Calypso — brass buttons, military-style epaulets, and battle-ready sharp collars, oh my.
Fashion is having a real “Gerard Way Moment.”
(And so am I.)
