Being the son of The Fresh Prince has come with its fair share of challenges, yet a heap load of perks all the same. In his short 18 years of life, Jaden Smith has managed to erode talks of nepotism by successfully making a name for himself outside of co-starring in his famous father’s movies and becoming a cultural icon for his own generation.
He followed his own family lineage by adding a pair of mixtapes and an EP to his discography currently stars in the pivotal pre-Hip Hop era Netflix series, The Get Down, under the tutelage of Nas and Baz Luhrmann and alongside his peers, Justice Smith and Shameik Moore.
Variety has taken notice and anointed the young thespian as one of the prime players in his space and rewarded him with his own cover for their Power of Young Hollywood issue with the likes of Divergent actor Ansel Elgort and veteran actress-at-just-18, Elle Fanning.
During his profile, Features Editor Jenelle Riley touched on his peculiar-yet-unique clothing line MSFTSrep. With the Hollywood spotlight as his birthright, Jaden has never shied away from labeling, even when it came to the criticism that he favored wearing skirts, or other clothing articles traditionally worn by females. His responses within the piece hammered home the notion that like his closet full of dresses, he didn’t have any pockets to hold the fucks to give on anyone’s opinion.
“It’s pronounced ‘misfits,’” he said of his brand’s odd spelling. “I took the ‘I’ out of ‘misfits’ because we’re a team and there is no ‘I’ in team. It’s a place for the lost kids and everyone to go, and something for them to have. [I created it for] the girl that wants to be a tomboy or the boy that wants to wear a skirt, and people try to condemn. We’re here for you. Tell us your stories. If someone at your school’s trying to pick on you, it doesn’t matter because Jaden Smith’s got your back.”
Photo: Mark Williams & Sara Hirakawa for Variety
As for his own style influences, Smith rattles off a mix of fictitious and actual figures such as Andy Warhol, the Joker, Poseidon, and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the ones he models his wardrobe after.
“I’ve always been super-duper fly and super-duper different,” Jaden says of his 10+ years of wearing dresses. “People just start caring when they have a reason to start caring,”
And that’s why crack is wack
I guess when your born into a super rich and famous family and you never have to work for anything and people just hand you tv shows to act in I guess wearing dresses and designing womens clotges it totally fuckin normal. Lets all pretend he’s not totally in the closet he’s just “super different” like he says. Funny how he says hes the voice for gay kids that get harassed but no one asked him to do that. He feels the need to defend gay kids by making clothes for them?wtf? Maybe im crazy but this shit is fuckin wack as hell
Will, you better get Lil nigga some pu$$y, do it now, lock his asz to strip club with some stacks and don’t let him out till he like pussy , not dress like one. Lol I seen him in the get down , good show but he was kissing some white boy on there…. you better get your son
“Jaden Smith Cites The The Joker & Poseidon As Fashion Influences”…………………LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
its like something you’d see in a parody film
Will and Jada have raised a total idiot for a son.
If i was born rich i wouldn’t be suicidal. Born rich people have beautiful lives full of luxury, fun and happiness, their lives are like heaven.
Ok, he likes wearing dresses, we get it – each for there own (I guess). However, if your going to wear and advertise a dress, at least wear it well. #JustSaying
Well we know the smith name is definitely gonna die. No grandkids no next generation from these queers they raised
Will smith has a older son who is actually normal tho…he just stays in the cuts and isnt on that hollywood shit
Had me fooled. Thought it was more like Ru Paul and Hansel from Zoolander.
Wow, what a bunch of miserable people. Not happy with your life…… do something about it! Stop judging other peoples lives. I am pretty sure Jaden Smith wearing “different” clothing does not make him a bad person and really does not effect you in any way.
In a world of chaos this is what you what to take stand on????? Get you priorities straight!
It’s called freedom of speech – People are in titled to express there opinion.
I love that we live in country where we can speak our minds and have our own opinions. HOWEVER instead of feeling entitled to tear people down with negitive opinions we should use our “freedom” to focus on the Real issuse. Be the change you want to see! Or just sit around complaining about someone elses life being so much easier then urs.
Eat your own words bitch
The fuckery is real… Smdh
This what happens when you don’t bring up your kids rightm bnch of spoilt, confused kids. There is nothing worse than a LST child. He thinks he is so revolutionary cause he’s wearing skirts? Being a spoilt rich kid doesn’t make u a leader of a generation. U just idle and looking for lost youth to mislead.
Spoilt rich kid’s, nothing more nothing less
*nothing worse than a lost child
Basically he wants them to be condembed by dressing stupid like that and then he can come in and say “We got your back” WTF?!? This has nothing to do with Hip Hop anyway, he’s not an artist and does not rap. He’s know for being mad gay and for cross-dressing, wtf DX? Just bc he’s black you write about him?
Clown.