Aussie man-from average blokes to Simon Baker are smartening up their act

From:Sunday Age
Date:March 7,2004

He's got style.

Aussie man-from average blokes to Simon Baker are smartening up their act.


Dressed for the Part: The Guardian star Simon Baker has traded boardies for
Gucci

Simon Baker feels more at home in thongs and boardies than designer get-up.
And like many Australian men, he'd rather throw on a wetsuit and go surfing
than slip into a tuxedo and hit the Hollywood circuit.

But for his role as lawyer Nick Fallin in television's The Guardian
(returning to Network Ten later this year), Baker has to look the part. And,
in the process, the 34-year-old Tasmanain-born actor has learnt a thing or
two about fashion. Now, he asks his wardrobe team to put his character in
one-button, tuxedo-style Gucci suits. And while he used to wear a lot of
black-suit black-shirt combinations on the show, he's now into lighter
shirts.

It's a look he's carried over to his many red-carpet appearances, which have
in turn translated into spots on Best Dressed lists in the US (and a
guernsey in People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of the year).

"I think style should be unselfconscious," he told InStyle Magazine. "I
pretty much go for things that are simple, practical. I'm not interested in
seeing anyone being worn by their clothes."