- [Man Behind Camera] Do you often not wear
a shirt underneath?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
[laughs]
- Yeah, yep.
[laughs]
Yep, yeah.
- [Man Behind Camera] You're not wearing a shirt
right now right?
- No, for what? - No.
It's impossible.
- What's up, this is Russ.
- And I'm James.
- And today, we're 'bout to go through some of our
tunnel styles.
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A huge part of fashion, I believe,
is just being inspired by other things that you see
traveling, hotels, you know men's and women's fashion,
different things that you may see different cultures
that be able to change how you look at fashion
in different ways.
- We travel so much that we see so many different things
not just here in America,
but you know whether it's Tokyo, Europe.
I just try to dress and use inspiration that I get
from other people and try to incorporate into my
daily habits and routine in life.
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This is one of my looks right here.
Going white itself, in general, it just stands out.
You know you wanna give it that fresh, clean look
first game of the season.
You wanna go into the season ready to get it on.
Snakes on them chains, that says fire
just when you wear white like that you gotta have
some fire accessories to go with it so the chain
was one of the pieces that I put on
to make the white outfit pop.
Whether there's cameras there or not,
whatever I feel like wearing that day
and I'm confident wearing, I put it on.
And the pictures gonna take itself.
- This is my look right here, opening night.
- Oh, you went with the all white too.
- We didn't coordinate that but you know,
that's how the bros do.
- Okay.
- Yeah, a little off white with a little paint splatter
you know what I'm saying,
and little white kicks.
I wanted to switch it up a little bit.
I didn't buy this.
I just made it.
Yeah, it's my brand, honestly, that's my clothing line,
Honor the Gift.
That's something that we created in the line,
it's coming out soon.
And more of my accessories finding ways to implement
them into what I was wearing.
The colors and what color watches and what I got on
I kinda pay a little bit more attention to it now.
That was the first opening night
of playoffs.
I like to have a tunnel suit and something that match
from top to bottom.
My thing is a clean look.
Especially, lighter colors.
I wanted to accent with the little red in my shoes
to kinda switch it up a little bit.
The shoes can change a lot.
It makes the outfit sometimes because it can
either change the look or it can dress it up
it can dress it down.
I went for a real casual suit look,
with off white chucks.
But if I would've threw some slip on's or some boots
it could've been a different look.
- [Man Behind Camera] Do you often not wear
a shirt underneath?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
[laughs]
- Yeah, yep.
[laughs]
It depends how I'm feeling.
There's no need, you know what I'm saying.
It's not common 'cause everybody it commonly ain't.
You know what I mean, it's not common.
[laughs]
It's not a common look.
That's just what it is.
It's just not a common look, you know.
- That's when I felt like a gangster.
[laughs]
That day I was just on some gangster thug Tupac,
thug life type swag.
That's what I was on.
L.A. inspired.
Can't tell you why, but.
L.A. inspired.
That was, I'm assuming, in the playoffs
against Golden State.
So I had to be on my thug life.
- You do your stuff.
- Yeah, it's probably for sure my color
but I don't know when I'll wear it again.
Like I gotta small closet.
- No, my closet small.
He got a big closet.
[laughs]
- You know what?
I don't even, I don't know what the style is,
I just put it on.
You know what I'm saying.
That's how I feel, I just put it on.
Honestly, this day, I didn't really feel like
getting dressed.
I just kinda threw on whatever,
some jeans and some comfortable shoes.
That's how I felt.
You know after the game we're all a ...
People talking about it that's up to them.
It ain't up to me.
It don't change nothing for me as you probably know.
It don't really matter to me.
[laughs]
- For real.
- It don't matter.
- That social media man, people gonna talk.
I can't pull that off like that.
Like that's impossible for me to pull off.
I got like a lot of chest hair and like
it don't make sense for me you know.
For him, it makes sense.
For me, it won't look right so I can't wear it.
There's a very small group of people that could
pull that off.
Very small, like very very small.
[laughs]
- [Man Behind Camera] Yeah, I would--
- A mass majority is impossible.
- [Man Behind Camera] And you're just saying
you just put it on.
- Yeah, I mean, I can go back and I know
but that particular outfit,
that's exactly what happened.
Just it's like kinda one of those things.
I woke up and was like whatever,
just throw something on real quick
and let's go to the game.
- Hell yeah, that's fire.
That was last year Madison Square Garden.
Dressed for the garden, you gotta look fly.
To me it's the garden.
It's MSG.
White sweatpants with the white Fendi's.
Then I just knew it was gonna be a good night too.
Russ probably know, certain stuff you put on
it's just like all right, I feel like it today.
I feel like going crazy today.
It just randomly happens throughout the course
of the year.
We play so many games we gotta put so many outfits on
that like he said, his last outfit,
he just felt like throwing a sweater on with some
jeans and some comfortable shoes.
Sometimes, you wanna put it on.
That's how I felt that night.
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- I got kinda inspired I was in Tokyo and Japan
in the summer time and I saw the officers
and stuff there wore police suits and stuff
and have the caution signs and the reflective all of that.
That's kind of my inspiration.
You can't see my pants in this but they're orange.
Kinda the same, inspired by that.
That's where I come from.
- The suit itself is already fire,
you know with the turtle neck.
But just the bag, just give it that extra
okay, he put that on.
You know then obviously, some Binny Nee in the bag.
[laughs]
But yeah, that was also a weekend where just
you gotta bring it.
You know obviously, all the super stars are there
and a lot of cameras, a lot of lights.
You gotta make sure you get dressed to impress.
I don't really wear sunglasses like that.
Especially, going to the arena and going to games.
But overall, just suit with the bag and the glasses.
It felt like it made sense.
- Nice look, champ.
For sure.
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- It's confidence.
Like majority of the people, not just in the NBA,
but in life in the world are scared to put something
on because people are gonna say something
or talk about it or whatever.
- We've often talked over the years about style.
And going back and forth on the positive note.
Just for me, I think it's important that culture
and how important the league has take notice to it.
- Over the years we've seen what Russ puts on
and he doesn't care what anybody says
because he's confident in himself
and he puts it on.
Whoa, what's brut?
You know it's all about confidence man.
And if you have that, which he has,
to the tenth power.
Once you have that you know you're able to do anything.
And I'm not just speaking about fashion and dressing,
but just in life.
His lane is obviously at the top.
He has everybody watching what he wears.
- People may joke about it or think it's funny
or thing it's great.
But people actually follow it
and people actually pay attention to it,
which is the unique part about it.
James has created a lane for himself in that aspect
and people don't understand.
And not just say put stuff on,
but also put him at the top of the list
when it comes to fashionable guys
and fashionable athletes, not just in basketball.
- Thanks GQ, that was our style.
Ya dig?
- [Man Behind Camera] You never put a shirt on.
- Wear a shirt for what?
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