![]() He's got to find the Cam Newton hat."įouquet hats meet the criteria because each one is specially made. "Cam is at a point now where he's got to do things that haven't been done before," he said. Green's initial thought on Newton making a statement with hats is he's too unique to borrow from Pharrell. ![]() Maybe he thought people missed the shoes, and there's no way to miss a hat." "Last year it was about the shoes," Green said. He was enamored with the boldness of the quarterback's style, from the tuxedo-style jackets to the insane Versace Super Bowl pants to the sequined-studded loafers. Green assessed Newton's postgame attire for last season. You weren't going to miss him before, but now you really can't miss him." "I think it adds a foot and a half, almost two feet (to his height). He's already super tall (6-foot-5), and as far as I know he kept the hat on the whole flight, which is hilarious. "I was like, ‘Man, it is such an inconvenient article of clothing to fly with,'" Green said. They didn't speak with each other, but the first thing Green noticed was the "Pharrell hat." Mark Anthony Green, the designated "style guy" for Gentleman's Quarterly magazine, by chance found himself on a red-eye flight with Newton, from Los Angeles to New York City, earlier this year. "Then we send a picture back and he either goes, ‘I like it, I don't like it, or put more stuff on there.' I'm, ‘OK, let's put more stuff - that's his word - stuff on there.' Whatever he wants on a hat, we do it and make it him. "He takes the picture and the shape of what he really likes, and I go with that and the vibe that he's looking for," Hernandez said. The hats typically run from $1,200 to $2,500 each, depending on how rushed the order is. In the photo below, Newton is wearing one of his many loud-colored "Pharrell hats."īut the more Newton and Hernandez talked, the more they agreed the quarterback needed his own style, which doesn't come cheap. Newton's first big dive into the hat world actually came earlier this year when he was pictured wearing a vintage Vivienne Westwood hat that became known as the "Pharrell hat" after the singer-songwriter rocked one at the 2014 Grammys. Newton was playing volleyball on the famed Venice Beach when he decided to stop by the hat shop that has outfitted everyone from Madonna to LeBron James to Bob Dylan to Usher. "With every outfit, he wants to rock a new hat. "I'm going to be working on him the whole season, making him hats. "We became friends making badass hats for him," Hernandez told by phone. ![]() "With him, you never know,'' Hernandez said.īut one thing Hernandez does know: Newton will look sharp in his hats all season. Hernandez frantically worked all day Wednesday making the hat - steel gray colored with a peacock feather - in time to ship it to Denver. It would have made a statement, Hernandez said.īut Newton decided last-minute to wear a pin-stripe suit to the game and for his postgame news conference, so he called Hernandez late Tuesday to order an emergency hat. It was a "ZZ Top'' skull hat and had a face on it. Hernandez had shipped the one Newton was considering for Thursday's NFL opener at Denver, a rematch of Super Bowl 50. ![]() This is where he decided Hernandez, a third-generation hatmaker who didn't know who Newton was before that day a few months ago, would become his Michelangelo of hats. This is where the Carolina Panthers' one-of-a-kind quarterback decided he needed a one-of-a-kind hat to make a statement off the field after every game, the way he often makes one on it. This is where the NFL MVP's fondness for hats turned into a passion. "I thought, ‘That's a beautiful car.' Then I see him coming out of it and I went, ‘Whoa! This guy is someone.' "I was already closing," Hernandez recalled. Alberto Hernandez knew it was somebody important when the white Rolls-Royce pulled up in front of the Nick Fouquet Hat Maker shop in Venice, California. Meet the guy who is helping Cam Newton 'be known for hats'ĬHARLOTTE, N.C. NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated. ![]()
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