Johnny Depp wins CFDA's Style Icon Award

As it's announced that quirky dresser Johnny Depp will be honoured with a CFDA Style Icon Award, Phong Luu wonders whether the double-denim wearing, trilby-loving star deserves it?

BY Phong Luu | 16 March 2012

A hobo has become the first man to win the CFDA's Style Icon Award. He's called Johnny Depp. Yeah, yeah, he's cool, but his brand of scruff is about as stylish as a Tupperware party in Basildon on Saturday night. The CFDA, supposedly the shizz when it comes to fashion in the US, must have been conveniently blinded by his good looks, overlooking the photo evidence that the man's best outfit in the past decade was in character as a dreadlocked pirate who's missing a few molars. Matching denims, zoot suits in shades of poo, trilbies with everything...Kudos for adventure, but, at the best of times, Depp's wardrobe is dodgier than Goldman Sachs's business advice. What he wants is for us to bugger off; what he needs, though, is to listen to our Depp Diktats.

Trilbies are ok. But not with a denim jeans, shirt, waistcoat, sunglasses and two scarves. Over-accessorising killeth a look, Johnny boy; if in doubt, heed Chanel's advice and take off the last thing you put on. Or, in your case, the last five things.

Blue-tinted sunglasses aren't. Because you're not a member of 'N Sync.

See a manicurist. Chipped doesn't cut it; if you ins! ist on d oing Marilyn Manson goth nails, get them done by a manicurist. Shane Warne did and nobody thought he was a big girl's blouse. Much.

Get a haircut. That man-bob isn't doing your face any favours - those cheekbones deserves to shine.

Ditch the Dad Jeans. Saggier than Ian Beales's face and just as repellent.

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