Miles of style...

In 1965, the legendary jazz critic and Esquire style writer George Frazier dubbed Miles Davis "The Warlord of the Weejuns" in the liner notes of a greatest hits collection. A hell of a nickname, even if no one knew what it meant.

Nobody played the trumpet like Miles Davis, and nobody dressed like him either. Ever at the forefront of jazz's major developments, he was also a style chameleon constantly changing his colour palletes. Before he got all freaky and avant-garde, Miles spent the late '40s to mid '60s dressed in various iterations of conservative dapperness, from the Brooks Brothers suits he wore at the time of his 1949 recording Birth of the Cool, to the slim European suits he sported for 1963's Seven Steps to Heaven.

There arent many people on this planet coming close to Miles, but you can get somewhere close with the selection of casual shoes from Paul Smith in the A/W10 collection...