Steve Jobs' black turtleneck reportedly explained in biography

[The Straight Story]

From Issacson's book, as reported by Gawker:

On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony's chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company's factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. "I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple," Jobs recalled.

Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. It was a jacket made of rip-stop nylon with sleeves that could unzip to make it a vest. So Jobs called Issey Miyake and asked him to design a vest for Apple, Jobs recalled, "I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea."

In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly. He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them." Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he showed them stacked up in the closet. "That's what I wear," he said. "I have enough to last for the rest of my life."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/steve-jobs-explains-black-turtleneck-in-biography.html

[dkf]

1. Hmm more democratic than I would have given him credit for.

[boppers]

2. Having a particular fashion style is political?

Huh. How does that work?

[dkf]

3. This part...

"I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea."

[boppers]

4. Oh, that kind of thing happened all the time.

Steve would propose some idea, nobody would like it, he'd propose another idea, nobody would like it, he'd demand they show how it was wrong, they'd show him (or not), and he'd back down (or continue).

From:
http://folklore.org/index.py

There's this crazy little tale:
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=PC_Board_Esthetics.txt&topic=Personality&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium

...where Steve demanded the RAM be moved on a mobo to make it "prettier". Lots of great Macintosh/Apple stories on the site.

[dkf]

6. That's kind of cute.

A lot of stories I was reading made him out to be a tyrant. I'm glad to see this side of him.

[joshcryer]

8. So am I, I wasn't quite aware as to the depths of Steve's psychosis and evil.

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.txt&topic=Personality&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date

[dkf]

10. You know I shouldn't have laughed because that was mean but I couldnt help it.

I feel for the guy though.

[hang a left]

5. Well, personally I have always found him

hot as hell. :blush:

[ellisonz]

9. Steve Jobs went to Reed College - "atheism, communism, free love"

“I just know that the right-wingers are going to try to claim him because he was a giant success. Please don’t do it, right-wingers. He was not one of you. He was not a corporate type. He was an Obama voting, pot-smoking Buddhist. He wasn’t one of you. So don’t try to claim Steve Jobs.” - Bill Maher

http://www.mogulite.com/bill-maher-steve-jobs/

[msongs]

7. what's the uniform in his wage slave factories? nt

[cliffordu]

11. Same as it is for people making that piece of shit computer

YOU are using right fucking now.

Stop the half assed bullshit. You are generally better than this.


well......maybe not.

:hurts: