what's up gq sports this is shae
gilchrist alexander and this is my style
history
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right here this is draft night walk us
through
this look i was getting my draft suit
ready maybe three weeks before i had a
suit idea and i went to the shop to try
it on and i saw like a fabric on the
side and it was that pattern of the
draft suit and i told them to try it
just in the trim of my jacket that i
already had and then i said let's just
go all out and all over the pants and
then i tried that on i fell in love
that's this look it was obviously a
dream come true and it kind of worked
out the jazz scene and how the night
went i was happy with both and pleased
with both and obviously i'll never
forget
while i was young no facial hair no
nothing the jacket i thrifted it the
shirt is off way you guys can see it off
on the chest the jeans are sailing on i
believe
and those are obviously jordan ones
how do you start an outfit it starts
with a piece that i want to wear like if
something comes in the mail and it's
like fire
i'd be like i'm wearing this tonight a
t-shirt it could be a pair of pants or
shoes it doesn't matter i start there
and then i i work my way around it when
you first started dressing up for games
how would you describe your evolution
like i started more minimalistic and
then i expanded a little bit at all
those stages i was just being myself and
being comfortable in my own skin and
wearing what i wanted to wear then as i
seen more tried more fell in love with
more and
now i wear more january 2020 oklahoma
city those parents i wore religiously
that year i was in love with those
they're wild and they give you another
look and they make people look like
they're baggy pants but you can like
tighten them and make them as slim as
you want that's why i love those and
then i threw on the jacket obviously
jacket's super loud it's a leaks
montclair jacket with the black buckle
black cat force those had just dropped i
mean like a week before that
when you go bold like this with an
outfit do you feel like you can wear it
more than once those pants they're loud
but they're all black so i was able to
do them more but i wore like a pink and
white pair that pair i had to wear a
couple times and put away for a little
bit do you keep these pieces do you have
like a huge closet at home no yeah i
keep all my pieces closes almost turning
into an investment so like in 10 years
from now those pants are gonna be hard
to find and i'll have a pair you know
what i'm saying maybe five
at suit is
imran potato louis vuittons i love the
suit obviously super loud and then once
i knew i was going that loud all over my
body i just wore white sneakers keep it
clean
white t-shirt um and let the suit talk
for herself most of the time i mix it up
i think with this one at that day i was
feeling myself so i was like i'm gonna
just go loud with this one do you ever
go shopping i love shopping that's a
part of it not knowing what you're gonna
see and then seeing something and
getting excited about wearing it i love
that feeling and i go shop every chance
i get what do you think about louis v
now that virgil's there i think he's
taking that brand to another level in
terms of menswear so many times i find
myself like hey i'm about to go broke
over this collection i wouldn't say no
like fashion heroes or styles that i
looked up to it was just certain guys
like allen iverson being comfortable in
his own skin and wearing what he wants
to wear even though he's gonna get fined
was very like bold to me more like his
attitude towards it was what i looked up
to he was of uh tell us about big
graphics and these sweaters yeah so that
first one is a brand from new york he
had the sweater and i loved it then i
wore that like the next couple days i
got it in but obviously love the sweater
super fire the tupac one my foundation
on instagram with the brand he was
making sweaters he had the same idea of
the knit stuff i have a lot of tupac
vintage tees and i thought it would be
cool to put in a sweater so i asked him
if he could put this image of tupac he
didn't it came out fire and i wore that
as well the day came in are you a big
denim guy in my closet i have so many
denim like embroidered denim coated
denim so i have enough denim for for
days so i can swap and switch out of
outfits but when i'm shopping comes down
to any day levi's like levi's has the
actual denim and then there's patterns
thrown on top of it so i think a good
classic levi's
is where i go with it these denim same
kind of thing like it was a brand on
instagram that i had found easy color to
wear fire cargo pockets on them and a
flare at the bottom that could cover
like a bulky pair of shoes but you see
the tan easy ones the flare jeans you
have like a lot of pairs of those
because of that reason so i like when
sometimes it's mysterious to what shoe
i'm wearing because my jeans cover it if
i wear like a highly thought after shoe
something that's super rare i'll wear a
denim over top of it that kind of hides
the shoe from this moment that's where i
really started
okay i'm gonna do this more out there so
we'll move on to this look right here i
was in a bubble if you can't tell i'm in
crocs those are grateful dead crocs that
was sent to me in a bubble super fire
needle shorts a japanese brand la ropa
t-shirt brand from la do you feel like
the bubble was a little more low-key
than games on the city yeah for sure the
super hot weather less layering less
things you can do with outfits whatever
i like i'm aware that's what it comes
down to the end of the day so if it's
crocs
if it's jordan ones converse if it's
cowboy boots i'ma wear what i like it's
not cowboy boots but i would wear what i
like you try to match your mask to your
fashion i've tried to do that a couple
times but i just have like a white and a
black mask just to make it easy i just
make it so like the mask isn't ruining
now so that look while i was in the
bubble i was just finding things online
and i would just have them sent to the
bubble because we were there longer than
expected so i didn't have enough clothes
loved the spider web on on both legs and
then i threw on something that would
kind of blend with the pants black and
white i think they came in there too
short i tried to sag him a little bit
and wear a longer tee but that didn't
work either so i just i warm high and
let me show my shoe i think i have a
commerce right there pro leathers as a
really tall guy our pants difficult to
get i do typically like my pants longer
if a pair of pants isn't like if it's
like two inches off i'll sag him a
little bit not too much because my mom
will kill me but i sag him a little bit
and then i'll wear a longer tee so you
can't tell i'm saying you rock a lot of
supreme is it a brand that you like i
have a lot of older pieces that are kind
of like harder to get harder to find
less people you see in it the better it
is to wear so i love wearing those
pieces my thing with vintage the less
people you can see in it
the better it is to wear and a lot of
times these t-shirts come out 40 years
ago and now there's four in the world
it's more individual and that's why i
love vintage you could wear it so many
ways you can dress it up you can dress
it down from the car hair jacket in this
picture to the t-shirt where do you
source your graphic tees from a few of
those are vintage that jay-z shirt
that's one of those teeth that's hard to
find is vintage as well
tupac best vintage cheese or tupac for
sure how many t-shirts do you think you
own in total
t-shirts like if i go through every
t-shirt it has to be around a thousand
for sure all thousands are not in my
closet for sure for the most part like
all my fire ones they're in my closet
color coordinated i'll go from black
brown
to colors and then i'll get to white so
those pants are capital another japanese
brand and if you can go up to the
t-shirt there's a little yellow in the
t-shirt the smiley faces are supposed to
be on the back i turned it around and
tried it and i fell in love with my face
in the front what do you do about the
button in the zipper that tee's a little
long so i just covered it with the t and
they fit perfectly so i didn't need to
wear a belt or nothing like that are
your teammates ever like yo like that's
super tight where'd you get that can i
buy it off you oh yeah that happens all
the time i would say
95 of games i get a compliment they'll
try to buy from me if it's something
that they know they can't just go get or
they'll try to find out where i got it
and most of the times i let them know my
teammates my homies have you ever worn
anything and then people have they kind
of ragged on you a little bit or no i
don't know if it's
they're nice guys and they don't tell me
or if i'm just 100 so far
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i saw that on instagram as well somebody
had me like a heart out of the nike
swoosh i thought they were dope but it's
cool like
how creative people are and they can
like spin things off and kind of make it
their own as well so it was cool and i
support it so the both of those sweaters
are capital japanese ran cozy warm
comfortable and they speak for
themselves obviously that first one on
the left i tried to wear like something
that's similar in color t-shirt but
would pop out a little bit and you can
see that in the colors i tried many
denim didn't really like the denim with
it and threw on the legend i loved the
letters with it like i said when the
rest of the fit is loud you just go
simple shoes i went white forces and
then that one on the right is capital
sweater ironically i had the vintage jzt
to match perfectly uh light brown harem
preston cargo pants and then javascout
air force ones when you buy your
japanese clothing how do you get them uh
no i haven't been to japan obviously
fashion is very forward over there but
with those brands they have like little
boutiques and usually the bigger cities
in new york la that sell them i mean
they go quick so you got to get on them
fast they have the coolest stuff over
there you have to make sure that you
have a large variety of winter clothing
summer clothing all that kind of stuff
definitely it changes the cities you go
to night before we fly out make sure i
have
everything set up for every city every
game so here you can see i'm wearing a
chugger hat again it's a capital trucker
hat but yeah i love trucker hats i like
the way the braids come out of the
chopper hacks i like that look
especially when i don't have a haircut
and i look a little scruffy got a hat to
cover it those pants are capital again
as you can see i got a lot of fire stuff
super loud dope colors and they flare at
the bottom as well
big piece in this outfit the shot is a
puffer vest it's a british brand on
instagram and it was super fire super
original and as soon as i got sent it to
me i wore the next game i started there
and then i worked around it and the
thing about puffer best is like you can
layer it without it being too much
layers so like you can wear it in the
summertime with a t-shirt and you won't
be too hot or you can wear it obviously
in the wintertime it just gives you
another layer um you're a little bit
warmer they're easy to wear and they're
fun to wear so that's why i love them so
much pants are gallery department
um splatter jeans flare as well and the
hoodie is a vintage hoodie i don't know
where from and then shoes i think i have
on yeah those look like comments i think
those are pro leathers flared denim um
cover the shoe and give you a little
taste of the shoe at the same time you
really don't work with a stylist or
anyone you just you shop yourself you
pick your office out yourself yeah
absolutely everything you see is put
together by me i don't have a stylist
those shoes are friends and family
travis scott's not a general release i
have a sneaker plug from la that helps
me with all that stuff and once he said
he had those my size available i had to
pursue and get them i've had those for
like a little bit now but i wanted to
wait till the right time to wear them
until i had something that crazy to wear
them with those pants capital pants
again black
um kind of patchwork denim
um loud but also a little bit purple and
denim and float nice with the shoe and
then again a vintage tupac t-shirt hard
to find um and then bubble vest with a
hoodie layering over it uh i love that
look
the big like piece here are the
off-whites
that are distressed did you distress
them yourself no i didn't there was a
guy on instagram did all that and i
asked him if he could do it to my
off-white jordan once for me he asked me
a couple times if i was sure because
they're obviously a
very sick shoe but i had a couple pairs
so i was like yeah just take a pair and
do him crazy for me and he did an
amazing job those are one of my favorite
shoes in my closet and i've done it
again with a few other shoes those pants
are a japanese brand i do not know how
to pronounce i'm going to have a little
bit of red at the bottom of it almost
looks like you stepped in blood at the
bottom of those pants when i loved them
then i was in vegas so i was not
layering every anything over that
t-shirt gucci mane tea
vintage tea as well i could describe my
style being comfortable my own skin
and being confident in it so whatever i
put on whatever i whatever it is that
day i make sure i'm comfortable in it
and i'm confident well that's it guys
appreciate you guys listening and
watching me talk about my style history
see you on the court