Fashion, Life and style, Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho
From flannel shirts to herringbone tailoring, Pep Guardiola’s stylistic pivot hints at a man renegotiating his identity in the twilight of his footballing era
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Last Tuesday, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola lost to Real Madrid in a £270 shirt.
The grungy flannel number from the cult Swedish menswear brand Our Legacy was so noteworthy it consumed more post-match oxygen than the news that Manchester City had been dumped out of the Champions League before the quarter-finals. Never mind that Guardiola is beginning to look bereft of ideas for the first time in his career. All anyone cared about was whether he’d hired a stylist.
Continue reading… The Guardian