Does anyone know who designs Prince's clothes? Bro is always sharper than a thumbtack! Whoever they are they're doing a great job

On Oprah, they showed the room at PP where all of his clothes are custom made. I read a Mayte interview where she said Prince's shoes were made in Italy, to match his suits. He really seems to like Versace too. I wish I could make an outfit for him. It would be very sexy, maybe too sexy for a 48 year old man!

UCantHavaDaMango said:

I know that they are very well made-they always look fabulous. You would design a wonderful, sexy outfit for our man. He has to keep it sexy I wonder how much time and effort actually goes into making his shoes

i don't think his clothes are made in-house anymore, but i remember reading a story circa 2004 about the person prince paid to design his suits for the musicology tour...maybe one of the eagle eyes on here can dig it out of the org archives...?

Anx said:

Nice info-Now what I really want to know is who made those clear, light-up shoes for Musicology? Those shoes were great. I think that we all had a pair of those growing up

nurse said:

i remember when he first started rocking those heels, he acted so proud of them. they were like his new toys.

Anx said:

I'm pretty sure it was someone based in Chicago, but I don't remember his name.

Anx said:

Now, you know what Chris Rock says about shoes with clear heels.....














They're stripper shoes!!!!!

nurse said:

Not a lot, cuz his feet are so damn small!

Prince definitely has nice clothes! Wouldn't you just love to go into his closet and take a look around? I sure would.

psychodelicide said:

actually, yeah. but only if it were okay with dude himself. i'd hate to be busted for a tacky, stalker fan act like snooping in his underwear drawer

XxAxX said:

Yeah, I hear ya, I definitely would get Prince's okay first. I can picture it now:

Me: "Hey Prince, is it okay if I take a look around in your closet?"
Prince: "Yeah, but don't go stealing anything, cool?"

psychodelicide said:

And you can bet that Prince's bodyguards would be watching me like a hawk to ensure that I didn't take anything that was not rightfully mine.

Anx said:

This man makes the clothes
Chicago Sun-Times, Mar 22, 2005 by Mike Thomas


First, know this: The sleepwear wasn't his.

Michael Jackson's trusted fashion designer, Chicago native Willie Scott, didn't craft those formless pajama bottoms the legally beleaguered pop star wore as he gingerly inched his way into court earlier this month.

The other duds, though -- those are Scott's. Many of them, anyway. Or as Scott evasively puts it, "more than one." Like the dark blue suit and pearly silk vest Jackson wore last year to his first court date, when he danced atop his limo. Otherwise, demurs Scott, who's evasive because of a confidentiality agreement with Jackson, "I can't tell you." (However, it's been reported that he has been tapped to craft outfits for each day of Jackson's trial.)

On a recent evening, Scott arrived at the Four Seasons hotel in a dark blue five-button crepe suit (four buttons hidden, his label), which contrasted beautifully with reddish socks and square-toed chestnut lace-ups. Shirt: light-blue check pattern, French cuff, Milan-made. Matching tie: bow. Sturdy travel bag: Louis Vuitton. Head: shaved. Grooming: precise.

Dude, as the kids say, was fly.

"You probably will [seldom] see me in a bow tie," said the 44- year-old Scott, who also fashions fashions for the nattiest bow-tie guy on earth, Chicago-based Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

"You're talking about a clean guy. Impeccable," he said of Farrakhan, through whose son Jackson and Scott first connected. "As far as his wardrobe, [Farrakhan is] one of my clients who I really appreciate because he's so serious about his clothes. You can't get anything wrong. Everything has to be perfect. Which is a challenge, but it also keeps you on your toes, keeps you focused on what you're supposed to be doing."

Isiah's boyhood chum

Scott -- a former basketball pro himself who played overseas before retiring in 1995 -- also has dressed Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Chicago-born pro hoops standout Tim Hardaway, and erstwhile Detroit Pistons superstar Isiah Thomas, the latter of whom he's known since childhood on Chicago's West Side. The two honed their jumpers and dunks in a traveling youth league at Martin Luther King Boys Club on West Washington. Back then, survival trumped style.

"When I open up the label and I see 'Willie Scott-designed,' when I see his name, it always brings me back home," said Thomas, now general manager of the New York Knicks. "And the place that I go is he and I walking the streets, sittin' in the hallway stranded, lookin' for a piece of food ... or sittin' at Al's beggin' for a hot dog, or hoping that somebody drops a french fry. He always brings me back home."

Thomas, of course, went on to college and pro stardom. On a different level, so did Scott. During a basketball stint in Italy, the world's epicenter of fashion, he learned basic tailoring from some designer mates at a Milan fashion house. "You only play once a week [overseas], so I had a lot of leisure time," Scott said. "And I would just go in there and I was spending all my money getting clothes made."

Eventually, he began hanging out on a regular basis, taking measurements and helping patrons choose fabrics. He also learned to sew. "I knew then that that's what I wanted to do," he says. "It was so clear that God had lined it up."

Now his seven-year-old company, Willie Scott Custom Clothier, is thriving, and word of his talent is spreading.

A couple of years ago, Prince commissioned Scott to create a new wardrobe for his Musicology tour. He wore a Scott-made double- breasted purple outfit with crisscross lapels while performing with Beyonce Knowles at the Grammy ceremony in 2004.

"For the most part, he comes up with his own designs," Scott said of Prince. "So he makes life easy for me. I just make it. I think he has someone sketch it. When I get it, it's like, 'How did he come up with that?' But I make it."

Scott's client wish list is long, and dapper linksman Tiger Woods ranks near the top. So does His Airness Michael Jordan. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, as terrorist chaos unfolded out East, Scott awaited Jordan's arrival in an office downtown. Safety concerns prevented the pair from meeting that day, but they've golfed together since. "If I'm supposed to have him," Scott said, "I'll get him."

Based on the South Side

The son of a Chicago cop (Willie Sr. died in 1990) and the fifth of 10 kids, Scott has strong local roots. His mother and four of five sisters live in town, as do his two daughters, Tiffany and Jasmine. Scott, 10 years divorced, owns a South Side pad, his base of operations.

Mostly, though, he's on the move, on the road, doing fitting after fitting and presiding over teams of tailors in Atlanta, Los Angeles and locally, where he once had retail shops at 2240 S. Michigan and 641 W. Grand.

As he told a Canadian newspaper in 1992, "I just go out and have fun. That's what basketball is all about. When I stop smiling, then I know it's time for me to hang up my shoes."

After all, it's what you wear from ear to ear and not from head to toe that matters.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

That sounds like our Prince... custom-made...

I hope this doesn't sound tacky, but I feel that God had Prince custom-made because there's no one out there like him and never will be.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

that was so adorable

PleasurePrinciple said:

I still think that sounded so corny... but I think if I said that to Prince, he'd say that we are all custom-made by God.

That's probably the deepest thing I've ever thought up cuz of Prince, he's good for that.

XxAxX said:

wow! does Prince wear underwear?

i don't think he does wear underwear, just look how he flops around and you never see a panty line.

what i want to know, is what he does with all the old clothes. does he still have all the purple rain, sign o the times, and lovesexy stuff packed away.

hey prince, let me know when you make a donation to the good will, i wanna go shopping.

Apart from the NewPowerSoul tour and the ONA and Musicology tour, I´v never seen him wear the same outfit twice. Especially not his private, off stage clothes...he seems to throw them away after wearing them one time.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Prince alwayz looks fantastic.

pennylover said:

Actually, I heard that he doesn't, but only he knows for sure.

That dude dressed Mark Cuban? In what? I've never seen Cuban wear anything but a sweatshirt, LOL.

I personally don't think that Prince beleives in underwear. I mean I've been seeing his balls jangling around for quite sometime now and unless he makes a misstep and squishes them, I don't think he'll be donning any purple Versace underwear anytime soon.

I just hope he doesn't stay out in hot weather. It'll be hard to walk with "certain" parts of him sticking to his legs.

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guarinigirl2000 said:

Hahahahaha!!!!! So... when did you see his balls? I thought those were under & key.

shaedove99 said:

Oh, don't make me post pics that prove it!

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Pics please Rani