Hey, these guys choose their friends just the way the rest of us do....by what they wear! They are so cool and interesting!
The post-punk punk band's influence can be heard in Interpol's taut rhythms and the intensity of their live shows, but no one will ever trace Interpol's fashion sensibility -- notably those trademark black Italian suits -- to Washington. That's pretty much the province of Kessler and bassist Carlos Dengler, originally a philosophy major at NYU and host of the campus radio's goth show, "Theatrum Aethereum."
"I didn't always dress this way, but in some capacity I knew that one day I would," says Kessler, a fan of '50s and '60s films, particularly the French New Wave, and the way "gentlemen" in those films dressed. "I've always had an affinity for people with style. When I met Carlos, I was dressed very similarly to the way I am today, and that's one of the things that drew us together. We were in a dorm full of undergraduates who wore NYU sweaters and jeans -- maybe that was one thing that made me feel we might have something in common."
