All hail Frasier Crane, the most stylish man in sitcom history
telegraph.co.ukFrasier, the witty, ironic, hugely comforting sitcom from the 1990s, which is set to be re-booted for the 21st century. Quite stylish indeed, because Frasier Crane and his equally prissy brother, Niles, remain two of the most elegantly dressed characters in sitcom history.
Snobbish, charming and always elegant.The show’s costume designer Audrey Bansmer curated a wardrobe for our oh-so-cultured connoisseurs that was full of Giorgio Armani, Donna Karan, Hugo Boss and Calvin Klein.
Fashion plays a huge role; the type of cuff or correct way to carry a blazer are the stuff of Frasier’s neuroses.Understandably there’s a degree of angst about bringing back a series that finished in 2004.
But with the original cast rumoured to be in the line-up – bar the late John Mahoney who played Frasier’s father Martin Crane, the plain speaking foil to Frasier’s fripperies – it’s worth taking note of just how modern our dashing Seattle psychiatrists’ style feels today.Frasier and his little brother took the stuffiness out of suits effortlessly.
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