John Legend uses clothes to reflect who he is as an artist.
John Legend
The 39-year-old singer doesn't want his clothes to "scream entertainer" and avoids garish looks as fashion can be a "really powerful visual shorthand" although he admits he hasn't always thought this way and regrets some of his earlier outfit choices.
In an interview with GQ, he said: "I try to consider that clothes reflect the person I am as an artist. I don't want my style to scream 'entertainer'. Fashion can be a really powerful visual shorthand. To be fair, any man that grew up as a teenager in the Eighties will have learned this the hard way. I look back at the bagginess of my jeans sometimes and wonder, 'What was I thinking?' "
The 'All Of Me' hitmaker - who shares a home in California and in New York City with his wife Chrissy Teigen, 32, and their two children, Luna, two, and five-month-old Miles - changes his look depending on what part of the country he is residing in.
He said: "The clothing I have here in California would certainly be a slightly different vibe to the clothing I have back in New York.
"I mean the weather here is better, obviously, so the fabric needs to be more breathable and a little looser. With a more relaxed vibe comes more colour, you know?"
The 'Love Me Now' singer added that his ultra-chic clothing choices in the city could occasionally "mess with his sense of style".
He said: "Sometimes when I was living back in New York, the sleek, chic, in-control power thing messed with your sense of style a little too much. It's so uptight! You could never be off duty, you know?"
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