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Why the days of scruffy dressing as a power move are over (iPaper / iNews)
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In his creased shorts and baggy branded T-shirt, the permanently dishevelled Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, looked like any other tech-bro. But with his empire crumbling around him, does Bankman-Fried’s spectacular fall from grace reveal that this extreme scruffiness was in fact symbolic of wildly misplaced self-belief?
He’s not alone. There are many powerful – or formerly powerful – men who are so badly dressed that it feels intentional – and arrogant. Scruffiness so extreme that it reads like a statement of superiority.
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