Monday’s “show time” event might not have been Apple’s greatest keynote in living memory, but it did give us one thing we can all agree on. That’s the undisputed awesomeness of Apple’s director of design for applications Wyatt Mitchell’s white boiler suit.
A sartorial choice that steals the show from names like Steven Spielberg and Oprah isn’t easy to do. And yet thats exactly what Mitchell’s wardrobe decision managed. And now a long-time Apple fan has immortalized it in the medium of song. Check it out.
Bringing style to Apple’s keynote
Composer Jonathan Mann has been writing humorous Apple-related songs for at least a decade now. Most famously, he once wrote a song about “Antennagate” that even made Steve Jobs dance. Since then he’s voiced everything from a Siri duet, and ode to Craig Federighi to one about Woz, commissioned by Steve Wozniak’s family for his birthday.
The stage at a tech event isn’t somewhere you’d usually look for a fashion show. While Apple has previously hired executives from the fashion world, most of Silicon Valley seems to view fashion as something functional at best. This is, after all, why even Steve Jobs (who loved great design), opted to wear the same thing virtually every day so as to avoid spending too much time thinking about it.
Wyatt Mitchell clearly thinks different, however. As a former art director for Vibe Magazine and creative director for The New Yorker, he’s evidently tuned into the world of all things style. Pairing his boiler suit with a pair of Off White x Converse All-Stars sneakers was a show-stealing masterstroke. And now there’s the song to prove it.
