Kerwin Frost, Fashion’s Funniest Man, Has Serious Street Style
Though you might not be familiar with the name Kerwin Frost, chances are you’ll recognize his face. The 22-year-old DJ, consultant, and member of the creative collective Spaghetti Boys is fast becoming a fixture on the men’s street style scene in Paris and his look is as distinctive as it gets—there’s a tattoo of a pencil on his cheek that stretches from the corner of the eye to his goatee, just for starters.
In one Vogue street style image, he appears like a cosplaying wizard, dressed in a huge Army green robe and a towering tangerine Hood By Air crown. On his arm is his wife, entrepreneur Erin Yogasundram, in a Moncler 5 Craig Green utility-orange jacket and pants with sandals—no socks! In another, Frost dons a head-to-toe Yeezy outfit in sandy desert tones, which he notes was styled by Kanye West himself. “His [West’s] clothing doesn’t get as much attention as it should,” says Frost. “People really only see the sneakers.” His tastes are wide-ranging, encompassing spiffy gentlemanly classics as well as streetwear—think, a camel blazer, chambray button-up, and tattered jeans, paired with a straw hat and a walking cane. In the Vogue shot of this particular getup, Frost wears sneakers, but on his Instagram, he’s posing in Hood By Air’s nightmarish double-sided cowboy boots.
But don’t be fooled: Frost is more than the sum of his madcap fashion parts. His résumé includes some impressive collaborations, including capsule collections with both Virgil Abloh and Heron Preston. Now, the eccentric style maven is on the cusp of entering the mainstream. In December 2018, he filmed the much-talked-about Kardashian Christmas bash and interviewed guests while dressed up as a bespectacled Santa Claus. Before that, he documented Kanye West’s Wyoming listening party in June 2018. His Instagram is dotted with other high-profile celebrities, including The Weeknd and Bella Hadid, who has worn his Spaghetti Boys merch in the past. Under one Instagram image of Frost wearing a black utility vest and a cotton candy–color bucket hat, artist Takashi Murakami comments: “I like your style.”
While Frost is quickly flourishing in the high-fashion circuit, he comes from humble beginnings. The New York native grew up hunting for designer castoffs at Goodwill and would swap out the sartorial treasures with his friends, what he calls “storage wars.” As a teenager, he gave himself an education in high fashion by hanging around boutiques in Soho with like-minded social media–savvy friends. “When I was 15, I had met a lot of my other friends, like Mike the Ruler, Luka Sabbat, and Austin [Babbitt]. We all met downtown and we spent our days there learning and doing research.” At 16, while interning at VFiles, he found himself faced with an existential crisis: “Do I want to write about it [fashion] or do I want to be a part of it?”
These days Frost is very much embedded with the fashion community, though he considers himself a comedian above and beyond anything else. “I don’t take myself too seriously,” he says. “If you do, you’ll question yourself on trying new things and not try to push forward with it.” That irreverent, carefree point of view is very present in his wardrobe. His signature hats are always ridiculously tall; he rocks a Vivienne Westwood kilt like no other and still shops at Goodwill for his crazy huge suits. His most prized possession is also bound to make you smile: a sonogram image that’s strung on a Hood By Air lanyard, of Waffle, the unborn baby Frost and his wife are expecting in July.
