Suede frontman Brett Anderson has said he now regrets the band’s ‘cartoonish’ 90s look, but insists their signature Britpop style, thrown together in Oxfam charity shops, was initially the result of financial necessity.
“People assumed Suede were strutting peacocks, but it wasn’t really like that,” he has told The Observer. “We were all on the dole so we went to charity shops – we were styled accidentally by Oxfam. In the early 90s those shops weren’t full of Gap T-shirts, they sold clothes from 10-15 years earlier. It looked like we’d adopted retro chic, but in truth it was financial necessity.”
“I had to go out every day when we were on tour and buy some flimsy old bit of nonsense from a junk shop because I knew it would get torn to pieces. If I could go back and give myself style advice, I’d say, ‘Tone it down or it’ll come back to bite you in the arse’.”
Suede returned for Teenage Cancer Trust in 2010 and, after that first gig developed into a full blown live reunion, released the brand new album ‘Bloodsports‘ last year.