Watch How Male Fashion Has Evolved Over the Last 12,000 Years

Stylish Guy Shows How Male Fashion Has Evolved Over the Last 12,000 Years

By Regina Sienra on June 19, 2024

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Una publicación compartida por Wisdom Kaye (@wisdm)

When looking up the history of fashion, it's almost irresistible to browse through that various styles of garments made for women over the years. Tracing the history of female fashion is a colorful adventure filled with diverse silhouettes. Unbeknownst to many, male fashion history can be just as compelling. And no one has made a better case for this than multi-hyphenate model-stylist-photographer Wisdom Kaye. The stylish young man has compiled an insightful “High Fashion Time Travel” video, going back thousands of years—and even daring to peek into the future—to show the evolution of male outfits.

Kaye begins his fashion voyage in a place rarely regarded for the clothes of the time—the year 10,000 BCE, or the Paleolithic era. But rather than commissioning a bespoke outfit or turning to a museum archive, the model recreates the furs and capes of the era with garments designed and sold by contemporary luxury retailers. In fact, he does so for every decade, century, and millennia he showcases.

After 10,000 BCE, Kaye's fashion timeline skips forward to the age of empires and ostentatious robes before showing us suits from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, like the ones depicted in museum portraits and historical documents. After the turn of the 20th century, Kaye relishes in slowing down and savoring the intricacies of each decade's fashion, even showing how outfits evolved every few years. It's as if he's challenging the notion of 70s or 90s fashion and conveying how intricate and mutating they were.

Towards the end of his voguish video, he presents how outfits have changed before our eyes over the last couple of decades. His fashion expertise captures the evolution in broad strokes—something that's hard to notice happening, when you're in the middle of it all or if you're not a fashion connoisseur. As the cherry on top, he takes a few seconds to predict the fashion of the years 3000 and 3333—the latter much more experimental than the former. With a little luck, just like he nailed each look from the past, he will ace his vision of the future.

To stay up to date with his daily fashion and creative styling, you can follow Kaye on Instagram and TikTok, where he often experiments with looks inspired by followers' requests.