George Michael's best looks: musical idol and fashion icon

The world of music crossed Christmas with a deep sadness: Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, better known as George Michael, died on the afternoon of December 25, at 53.The unique and scandalous Sex Symbol that knew how to interpret the romance, sensuality and liberation that marked the last years of the twentieth century in his songs, will remain in history as a pop artist who knew how to excite more than one generation.

Since your time in What!Even his solo stage, going through his most uprooted personal moments and his most committed statements, George Michael marked an era.However, in addition to his music and his ideology, from his ascent as a public image to his death, George Michael was praised by his unmistakable style.

Although Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou was born in the London neighborhood of East Finchley, he was the son of a Father Grecochipriot who had emigrated in the 1950s to the United Kingdom when Cyprus was British territory.Being a teenager, he moved with his family to the English county of Hertfordshire, near London, where he met his good friend Andrew Ridgeley, not knowing that he would later form with him the WHAMA group!, Which would be consecrated as one of the most popular bands inThe 80s.

The duo quickly became one of the greatest exponents of the style of that decade, cultivators of the British New Wave aesthetics.During their five years of intense activity, the group published four albums (Fantastic, Make It Big, The Final and Music from The Edge of Heaven) that they knew to head the list of main successes several times.

At this time, the fashion that would become iconic of the time was already used by the members of Wham!that looked in each presentation with colorful and colorful attire and risked the most extravagant combinations of colors and mixtures of tight clothes and baggy clothes, a classic in the 80s. In addition, it could be said that the members of this band were the first inUse shirts with great inscriptions.During one of the first concerts of the band, the then already known as George Michael dared to a totally yellow set with very short and tight row shorts.

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However, as their popularity was increasing, George and Andrew mutated towards a more elegant style, but with longer and clearer hair.On his tour of China in 1981, George dazzled on stage with a total-white outfit, elegant, but with his characteristic vein of sensuality, without shirt and showing his chest.From that moment on, in George's wardrobe a suit would never be missing.

In 1984, George Michael's career really begins to ascend when he launched with Ridgelay the success Wake Me Up Before You Go-G, his famous single Careless Whisper, Freedom!and Last Christmas.However, success came outside his relationship with Andrew, who was rumored was more distanced and announced the beginning of the end of What!

While he was not on stage, George Michael relaxed his look and wore a classic style of the time: tight jeans, shirts, shirts and huge shirts.In addition, the famous pop artist never showed himself without his earrings in each ear and his hair combed up.It is also at this time, when the famous beard of him comes to stay.

Once the separation of What!It was a certainty, George Michael's style took a turn.Without losing its elegance, or its passion for the costumes, the rocker look seized George's stages, where leather, Metalic accesses (rings and crucifixes), sun lenses and increasingly adjusted jeans, reigned.

At this time, her neat beard was uncontrolled and George let her grow to combine with her appearance of "bad boy."However, in apparitions outside the stage, the informal looks of the rocker and adapted more fashionable of the moment.

After the death of his dear friend, Freddie Mercury, George was one of the artists to honor him on stage during the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, in April 1992. With a pink suit, rings and sunglasses,George Michael wore a striking shiny pin with the red ribbon in allusion to the fight against HIV/AIDS.In addition to fighting for the rights of the LGBT community, George was one of the great referents of the cause against AIDS.

At the end of the '90s, George Michael's look went back to his beginnings, 20 years before, with a hyper-prolonged padlock beard, his visibly shorter hair and tiny sun glasses in each public appearance.The costumes, almost always black, were the protagonists of the outfit.

After some years of musical inactivity, in 2004 he launched his album Patience, which being his first original work since 1996, he was called by many as the "return of the year."However, this time her style was radically different: tan, with her beard halfway and her always present sunglasses, the sex symbol of the 80s looked like another person.

In his last years, George Michael was more elegant than ever.While he still liked to wear his rocker style (as in the presentation during the London Olympic Games), the costumes of all colors and designs predominated in each of his shows.Always accompanied by the return of the neat beard -although a little gray -haired -accessories in his neck and his hands and glasses.

After his death, George Michael will remain in the memory for his legacy as a singer and composer, but his fans will not be able to forget the unmistakable style that his entire career signed.Like music, the fashion of the last 30 years also owes some of him's greatest trends to the scandalous, elegant and daring George Michael.

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