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Is There an Asian Posh?

The endearingly limp-wristed Thursday Styles section of the New York Times is at it again, this time with a round-up of World Cup hairstyles and the fashion designers who love them. With the increasing popularity of soccer in all markets, the designers are using soccer players to sell high fashion. First, those players need good haircuts.

We ourselves admit to wondering what David Beckham's tonsorial mode of expression would be for the tournament, and aside from a soupcon of mullet to his coif, it's rather unremarkable. That doesn't mean that world-class hair is absent from the World Cup, though.

There's Loco--we mentioned him before, but he plays for Angola and has a shaved head save a single forelock. There's Christian Wilhelmsson, who plays for Sweden with a rather distinctive ratail, and there's in inimitable Hidetoshi Nakata. He plays for Japan. Also something of a clotheshorse, Nakata is known as "Asian Becks", according to the Times. Yeesh, classy stuff, Thursday Styles.

Why clothing designers would want soccer players, who despite their fame are only a tiny step up from hockey players in terms of stylishness (Becks, both Asian and regular, excluded) is beyond us. Unless we're in for a season of mullet and rat tail inspired suits. Then we'll know the apocalypse is nigh.

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