33. Prince

Oh Prince, that just isn't fair. Nobody should be able to take something as basic as leaning on a brick wall and just make it so effortlessly cool. And the worst thing about it is that apart from the man himself, none of the elements involved in it should work.

A trench coat that he may or may not have borrowed from a detective should not be cool. A scarf that in no way goes with the coat should not be cool. Whatever that is on his right shoulder - and we think it might be chainmail, but we're open to suggestions - should not be cool. Aviators that are too big for your face? Definitely not cool. Hair that looks like it may ever so slightly have a lift on its own? Terrifying, not cool. But this is Prince, in Amsterdam, in 1991, and all together it just works. We don't think he did anything uncool in his whole life.

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