Clint Eastwood (born in 1930) is a true icon in the history of cinema. He’s an actor, a director, a producer and a composer… basically he can do everything concerning the movie industry. And he can do it the best way, as his career clearly shows.

Apart from his art, Mr Eastwood is real maître à penser when it comes to style and fashion; as Mr Porter website puts it, he “has long observed the edict ‘less is more’: less words, more action; less fashion, more function. One does not see him sporting a velvet jacket with coordinated slippers. Yet far from a minimalist wardrobe of blue-on-blue denim, white tees and sober suits, the fact is that Mr Eastwood has been more experimental than many of us remember“.

Obviously Mr. Eastwood’s physique and body shape are fundamental – he’s slim, tall and reminiscent of something forged from tough and clean discipline: even in a white t-shirt and jeans (as in 1978′s Every Which Way but Loose), while boxing with bare fists, he’s in the same league as James Dean or Marlon Brando.

By the way, according to Mr Porter’s analysis, Dirty Harry (1971) was Eastwood’s highest point: a key element to define his acting and style: “Donning a slim, brown three-piece suit cut in a way that would today be described as Neapolitan, his character looks surprisingly contemporary, even if some of his sports jackets leave a lot to be desired in terms of fit. Another of the film’s sartorial highlights is a boldly checked tweed jacket, which Mr Eastwood wears with aplomb, his Ray-Ban Baloramas balancing any schoolteacher associations we might make with the jackets’ leather cuff buttons“.

Enjoy Mr Porter’s whole article here.