![]() ![]() Kendall’s tactical shoe error might be the most overt fashion moment so far on “Succession.” The show, which is midway through its second season, does not, for the most part, call attention to matters of style. In business as well as in fashion, Kendall has overplayed his hand. ![]() “So, I’m a jackass.” Despite this little performance, they pass on his investment. “I got these sneakers on the way down here because I thought . . . you’d all be dressed like fuckin’ Bjork, and I wanted to make an impression,” he says, in an attempt at coming clean. ![]() But when he rolls into the meeting, dropping F-bombs and bombastic promises, Kendall quickly realizes that he has misread the room-the founders are idealists, unlikely to be impressed by corporate swagger or five-hundred-dollar sneakers. “Oh, fuck yeah,” he says, as he pulls them out of their powder-blue box and puts them on. Kendall is on his way to meet with the founders of a buzzy startup that pairs struggling artists with high-end buyers, and for the occasion he’s bought a pair of calfskin Lanvin sneakers, the go-to fancy footwear of Silicon Valley tycoons. In a Season 1 episode of “ Succession,” HBO’s hit tragicomedy about a billionaire media mogul’s cutthroat family empire, Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong), the second-eldest son of the patriarch, sits in the back seat of a chauffeured car in Manhattan traffic. ![]()
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