When former talent agent Andrew Weitz founded the Los Angeles-based style consultancy The Weitz Effect in 2014, dressing executive men was relatively straightforward. “A decade ago, the suit was the uniform,” he says. “It took the guesswork out of getting dressed.”
Since then, Weitz’s renown has grown – he has dressed Elon Musk and was the subject of a New Yorker profile in 2018 – and so have the options for men . “Today, there’s much more freedom,” he says. “There’s room for personality. But there are also a lot of men standing in front of their closets, thinking: ‘OK, now what?’”
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