Fall is falling, as the kids these days would say. Some call it Pumpkin Spice Latte season, others Christian Girl Autumn, and then some refer to it as the Red (Taylor’s Version) portion of the year. I myself, however, belong to the camp of people that understands these colder months to be the time we remember and cherish – as a community – Lenny Kravitz’s blanket-dimension scarf.
Ever so nonchalantly, the Grammy winner was first seen draped in the now museum-worthy accessory in 2012. Over a decade later, we now treat this moment like an international, pop cultural holiday of sorts – and the 60-year old is more than in on the joke.
God knows, plenty of celebs have tried to emulate the iconic getup, to varying avail. And truth be told, there are endless possibilities as to how to effectively style a scarf, and not all of them include yards worth of knits dangling at floor length.
Small Scarves
Daniel Craig and Dev Hynes, for instance, kept their scarves way above the belt, for purely neck-warming purposes. As you can see, even without mounds of fabric, the scarf is at least a useful, at best an additionally decorative piece for lovers of layers.
I can personally attest, however, to the hardship of wearing scarves with longer, especially curly hair that’ll fray and clump and tangle through friction. Luckily, if you’ve got the rizz to pull it off, you can opt for a silk scarf and wear it around your head:
Headscarves
Actress Hunter Schafer and soccer player Eberechi Eze mastered the Hepburnian headscarf with such ease, it’s hard to believe they didn’t coin the look – or rather, the protective wind-remedy – themselves.
Medium Scarves
But as playful as it is, the silken headscarf can only do so much to outweigh the perks of an actual wool product, no less for it’s lack of weather-accommodating everydayness.
Donald Glover and the eldest of the Beckham bunch demonstrate the most Gentleman of ways to sport a scarf when autumnal temperatures make it impossible not to: proportionately sized, neutral in color, endlessly compatible.
Large, Larger, the Largest Scarves
Ceasing to pretend that anyone who came here is actually interested or in need of tips on how to wear a regularly, reasonably scaled scarf, I want y’all to really take in Margaux-fan Doja Cat, Willow Smith and, patron saint of the wintery wardrobe, Mary-Kate Olsen’s expert-wielding of uselessly, excessively enlarged sheets of cashmere. Talk about being committed to the bit, amirite?
Not unlike the pendulum’s recent swing back from micro to macro bags, scarves’ potential is only ever fully reached when they are big enough to wrap your entire body in them. I said what I said, and though you may not’ve heard it here first, you’re hearing it here with the utmost conviction.
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