Football and Fashion: The influence wielded by the football gods is felt all over the world, hairstyles, dances, tattoos. And while footballers don’t innovate they do provide the bridge to take a look mainstream. With the World Cup in full flow fashion.psfk spent a few hours reading through pages of World Cup fashion reporting to bring you this selection from around the globe which should give you a good idea of what’s going on.

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Football and Fashion:  The influence wielded by the football gods is felt all over the world,  hairstyles, dances, tattoos.   And while footballers don’t innovate they do provide the bridge to take a look mainstream. With the World Cup in full flow PSFK spent a few hours reading through pages of World Cup fashion reporting to bring you this selection from around the globe which should give you a good idea of what’s going on:

Simon Evans at Reuters tells us how the shirts are going back to basics,  if the last world cup was the time of shiny shirt this world cup the shirt desigers have called on more retro shirt influences

Simon Evans Article

Darren Ennis at Reuters reports that the Ivory Coast shirts sold out in Hamburg because the locals wanted to support the smallest team in the cup.

Darren Ennis Article

Eric Wilson at the New York times takes a light hearted look at the footballers hair styles bemoaning Beckhams lack of effort

Eric Wilson Article

DPA for Daily India’s assessment of each of the teams looks (Physical!) Identifying Iran as the best looking team and Freddie Ljungberg as the gay man’s pin-up of choice.

DPA Article

Parmy Olson for forbes.com gives us an assessment of the footballers ultimate fashion accessory,  his wife.  They’ve even put together a slide show of the most glamourous, famous and beautiful wives for your pleasure.

Parmy Olson Article

Pink News provides as only they can probably the best advice on how to enjoy the world cup in a luxury fashion style.

Pink News Article