Jharrel Jerome on the Role Style Plays in His Life and Acting Career

The full Run-D.M.C.
Full Run-D.M.C. I just didn't have the boombox. I definitely love fashion, but it's a specific fashion that I love so much. It's the streetwear fashion. I'm super into any type of fashion, but I can't see myself in crazy, crazy, over-the-top garments and feathery things. I think it's beautiful, but for me, in my everyday, it's a lot of streetwear.

Did that all start from a pretty early age?
Yeah, oh my God. You could find the funniest pictures of me in matching colors and a green Yankee hat with the green shirt with the green sneakers. And then the next day it was the yellow Pirates hat with the yellow shirt and the yellow sneakers. And the next day it was the orange Baltimore Orioles hat with the shirt. I went to a Lids one time and went off and bought a bunch of different teams, and the guy is like, "What? Pick a team, man!" And it's like, "No, I have to have green, blue, red, orange, yellow."

So in high school was everyone pretty well-dressed? Were you trying to keep up with that, or were you setting your own path there?
Yeah, high school was interesting for me because I went to LaGuardia High School. I'm not sure if you're familiar.

Yeah. Nicki Minaj's high school.
Yeah, of course. It's a very diverse school. It's the one school I picked. It's very rare to go to school where your classmates are from all five different boroughs. So I had Staten Island friends, Brooklyn friends, Queens friends, Bronx friends, Manhattan friends. And how they dressed was really based off the boroughs. I don't want to play stereotypes or anything, but Staten Island, especially the girls, it was leggings and Uggs.

And then Brooklyn is up-top baseball caps and North Face book bags. Manhattan was a lot of collared shirts, a lot of khakis. So I saw the khakis, the collared shirts. I saw the hoodies. I saw the art majors, [who] were very out of the box. Pink hair and diamonds all over there.

My fashion in high school had phases. When I got to high school, it was the Bronx. I had the hoodies, baggy sweatpants, Air Force 1s. And then I felt uncomfortable. I felt like I didn't fit in. And it was the first time in my life I felt like I was trying to fit in.

I went to school in the middle of the city, where I was one of four kids from the Bronx in my class. So I felt like I had to just kind of dress the way my friends were dressing. So I bought sweater vests. I bought plaid shirts. My mom was looking at me like I was crazy. She goes, "What the hell are you wearing?" I'm like, "It's cool. It's all right." I had Clarks Wallabees. And it was about a year of that, and it just wasn't me.

Banana Republic jacket, pant, and sweater.

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