GQ released a list of the “15 worst dressed men in tech”, which is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel; engineers are hardly known as fashion plates. Indeed, the magazine was so overwhelmed with badly dressed techies it left a few people off its list.
It’s impossible to argue with the selection of Seth Priebatsch, CEO of smartphone app maker SCVNGR. Priebatsch wears his aggressively geeky orange getup as a sort of uniform, sometimes even pairing it with salmon coloured Bono sunglasses. [via Juliet M/Flickr]
Amazingly, GQ left out Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft CEO and noted sweat stain creator. He seems to have exactly two outfits; you can see them above. And yet Ballmer is worth around $US15 billion, and Microsoft gave fashion makeovers to other geeky execs. Why not spring for one of his own?
Another GQ omission: Google chairman Eric Schmidt. Granted, this picture was taken at Burning Man, but the last time we checked, mum shorts were not a fashion item even among stoned desert hippies. And this is hardly Schmidt’s first questionable outfit.
Ben Huh, LOLcat exploiter. As GQ said of the Cheezburger CEO: We get it, you have a whimsical company and dress whimsically and it’s all very adorable. But you should look like you’re trying just a bit harder, especially if you want to motivate people to work for very little money.
Tom “MySpace Tom” Anderson. Who would have imagined such sloppy dress from the co-founder of a social network as tastefully designed as MySpace?? Talk about fish in a barrel.
MySpace Tom has the excuse of running MySpace. What is Mark Zuckerberg’s excuse? Facebook is supposed to be the cooler, classier social network. And its CEO is already worth billions — in fact, he’s the world’s youngest billionaire. Live it up a little, Mark. When it comes to dressing for success, those guys at GQ know what they’re… eh, nevermind, go ahead and stick with the hoodies and Adidas sandals. It’s hard to argue with a $US100 billion valuation.
GQ says Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ “self-inflicted uniform… rivals Superman’s in its homogeneity.” Comparing the most celebrated CEO in America to a superhero is really going to burn, guys.
Mr Biggles
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:54 AMI’d be interested to see the best dressed men (and women) of tech… Sure, it would be a terribly short article, but it would carry a few more that the 0 surprises this one had…
Actually, there was one big surprise – that the list only went to 15!
villainsoft
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:04 AMfashion itself is as ridiculous as the notion of religion.
People you don’t know, making up arbitrary rules that they expect you to abide by, when they have neither the authority or wisdom to do so.
Steve
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:39 PMI’m not even a religious person and take issue with what you said. Where did this article mention religion at all, that you had to deride it with no provocation? Do you make off-hand remarks like this in your personal life too?
Militant atheists are just as bad as the evangelicals they purport to oppose. If you don’t want someone else shoving their views down your throat, you should practise the same courtesy.
John
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:16 AMIf i was in Mark Z’s position, i’d be wearing the same stuff.
comfort > fashion
Paul
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 12:40 PMI don’t see what’s wrong with Zuckerberg’s outfit? I wear the same type stuff… Are you saying I dress badly?
Lance
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 2:19 PMI don’t see a problem with Tom Anderson or Mark Zuckerberg’s outfits just because there multi – millionaire/billionaire’s and CEO of a company doesn’t mean they have to dress in some $100k outfit that looks the same as the $750 dollar suit.I’d prefer to have comfort over some suit and it doesn’t seem to slow em down there still got more money the then most lol
Steve
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:35 PMThe backlash over Zuckerberg’s dress sense (ie ‘hoodie and flip flops’) is because he’s a pretentious control freak.
While we all agree that fashion for the sake of fashion can be pointless, you don’t need a $5000 suit to look professional. Once you start going out of your way to pretend you don’t care, it’s giving a middle finger to the institution that helped make you what you are.
Greg
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 6:57 PMShirts and jeans are awesome.
What’s wrong with them?
Go wear your skinny faggot jeans.
Steve
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:30 PMHey Giz, if you guys don’t moderate comments, the least you can do is put in some system that flags certain words. IMDB’s been doing it for years (much to my own chagrin), but it’s precisely because of comments such as this ^
Paul
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 6:59 PMWhile I agree highly upon what you’ve just said about flagging certain comments, why moderate if you’re just going to let things through like this.
I do agree with him, is Gizmodo becoming one of those awful fashion following hipsters? Wearing jeans that are 30% the span of my calf alone… What’s with the latest trend in hair cuts too… curly, flowing at the front? Look like you belong in an idiotorium.
Charles
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 7:18 PMWow Greg calm it down there man. “Faggot jeans”? Nice. I think it’s fair to say that these guys don’t look great in what they wear. I don’t think fashion is a ‘set of rules’ or something, it’s just that they’re not doing themselves any favours with their clothes. Not that they need it, true, but orange Polo shirts and Bono sunnies? Terrible sweat stains? CMON. I think Zuckerberg doesn’t look particularly great, kinda playing down his wealth, but sandals.. I’ve never found them comfortable myself, but different strokes for different whatevers I guessssssssssss.
Aidan
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 7:51 PMThink this graph sums it all up.
http://i.imgur.com/QJtRh.png
Steve
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:18 PMI don’t think any of these are any particularly ‘horribly dressed’, just that many tech icons didn’t make a name for themselves with their looks or fashion sense.