Voted Germany’s most stylish man by GQ magazine in 2015, Jérôme Boateng has always been a more fascinating character than your average footballer. And he is far from an average footballer, having helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013. Away from the stadium, the tall centre-back with Ghanaian roots is a busy man, boasting a wide array of interests, including his own range of designer glasses and a lifestyle magazine, BOA, which he launched in 2018.
Creativity is obviously a big word. For me, it means that you take in influences from the environment around you, whether it’s on holiday, on the street or just going to training. You look at how people dress and different things. It might even just be a cone that’s cordoning off something on the street. You can take anything. These days, you even see the vests that builders wear coming into fashion. Everyone can be creative in their own way.
That’s a good question. I think fashion. Just because it interests me and I find there’s so much you can do there; you have so much room to be creative. Anyone can let themselves go and have a play around, so there’s a huge amount you can do. It’s also a huge amount of work when you really take it seriously and want to be successful as a designer, but you can obviously play around with things a lot.
Yes, absolutely. It certainly interests me. I think you need work and then you need a good team and good people around you so that you really understand how it runs and what you can do and build.
Voted Germany’s most stylish man by GQ magazine in 2015, Jérôme Boateng has always been a more fascinating character than your average footballer. And he is far from an average footballer, having helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013. Away from the stadium, the tall centre-back with Ghanaian roots is a busy man, boasting a wide array of interests, including his own range of designer glasses and a lifestyle magazine, BOA, which he launched in 2018.
Creativity is obviously a big word. For me, it means that you take in influences from the environment around you, whether it’s on holiday, on the street or just going to training. You look at how people dress and different things. It might even just be a cone that’s cordoning off something on the street. You can take anything. These days, you even see the vests that builders wear coming into fashion. Everyone can be creative in their own way.
That’s a good question. I think fashion. Just because it interests me and I find there’s so much you can do there; you have so much room to be creative. Anyone can let themselves go and have a play around, so there’s a huge amount you can do. It’s also a huge amount of work when you really take it seriously and want to be successful as a designer, but you can obviously play around with things a lot.
Yes, absolutely. It certainly interests me. I think you need work and then you need a good team and good people around you so that you really understand how it runs and what you can do and build.
I think print is just cool because you can touch it. You have something forever and you can put it or hang it anywhere, and maybe make a cool picture out of the magazine or the page. For the interview, I’d most like to do a double interview with Virgil Abloh and David Beckham. They’re both mega-interesting in their own way, and I think David Beckham has been a fashion icon over the years. And Virgil, wherever he goes or whatever he touches, it’s just cool and he moves with the times. Wacky items, chic items but still with a bit of something cool. It would just be mega-interesting to hear from both of them about how they see fashion, how they got into it and what they’ve brought to it.
[Laughs] I would say David Alaba dresses well, Robert Lewandowski dresses well, and Leon Goretzka. Yes, those three.
[Laughs] Yes, sometimes Thomas Müller is a bit ragged, but he’s certainly improved.
Dashiki.
To do something that helps people or inspires people or helps them get on in life – that kind of direction. I want to build something that’s there for along time.
Voted Germany’s most stylish man by GQ magazine in 2015, Jérôme Boateng has always been a more fascinating character than your average footballer. And he is far from an average footballer, having helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013. Away from the stadium, the tall centre-back with Ghanaian roots is a busy man, boasting a wide array of interests, including his own range of designer glasses and a lifestyle magazine, BOA, which he launched in 2018.
Creativity is obviously a big word. For me, it means that you take in influences from the environment around you, whether it’s on holiday, on the street or just going to training. You look at how people dress and different things. It might even just be a cone that’s cordoning off something on the street. You can take anything. These days, you even see the vests that builders wear coming into fashion. Everyone can be creative in their own way.
That’s a good question. I think fashion. Just because it interests me and I find there’s so much you can do there; you have so much room to be creative. Anyone can let themselves go and have a play around, so there’s a huge amount you can do. It’s also a huge amount of work when you really take it seriously and want to be successful as a designer, but you can obviously play around with things a lot.
Yes, absolutely. It certainly interests me. I think you need work and then you need a good team and good people around you so that you really understand how it runs and what you can do and build.
Voted Germany’s most stylish man by GQ magazine in 2015, Jérôme Boateng has always been a more fascinating character than your average footballer. And he is far from an average footballer, having helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013. Away from the stadium, the tall centre-back with Ghanaian roots is a busy man, boasting a wide array of interests, including his own range of designer glasses and a lifestyle magazine, BOA, which he launched in 2018.
Creativity is obviously a big word. For me, it means that you take in influences from the environment around you, whether it’s on holiday, on the street or just going to training. You look at how people dress and different things. It might even just be a cone that’s cordoning off something on the street. You can take anything. These days, you even see the vests that builders wear coming into fashion. Everyone can be creative in their own way.
That’s a good question. I think fashion. Just because it interests me and I find there’s so much you can do there; you have so much room to be creative. Anyone can let themselves go and have a play around, so there’s a huge amount you can do. It’s also a huge amount of work when you really take it seriously and want to be successful as a designer, but you can obviously play around with things a lot.
Yes, absolutely. It certainly interests me. I think you need work and then you need a good team and good people around you so that you really understand how it runs and what you can do and build.
Voted Germany’s most stylish man by GQ magazine in 2015, Jérôme Boateng has always been a more fascinating character than your average footballer. And he is far from an average footballer, having helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013. Away from the stadium, the tall centre-back with Ghanaian roots is a busy man, boasting a wide array of interests, including his own range of designer glasses and a lifestyle magazine, BOA, which he launched in 2018.
Creativity is obviously a big word. For me, it means that you take in influences from the environment around you, whether it’s on holiday, on the street or just going to training. You look at how people dress and different things. It might even just be a cone that’s cordoning off something on the street. You can take anything. These days, you even see the vests that builders wear coming into fashion. Everyone can be creative in their own way.
That’s a good question. I think fashion. Just because it interests me and I find there’s so much you can do there; you have so much room to be creative. Anyone can let themselves go and have a play around, so there’s a huge amount you can do. It’s also a huge amount of work when you really take it seriously and want to be successful as a designer, but you can obviously play around with things a lot.
Yes, absolutely. It certainly interests me. I think you need work and then you need a good team and good people around you so that you really understand how it runs and what you can do and build.
I think print is just cool because you can touch it. You have something forever and you can put it or hang it anywhere, and maybe make a cool picture out of the magazine or the page. For the interview, I’d most like to do a double interview with Virgil Abloh and David Beckham. They’re both mega-interesting in their own way, and I think David Beckham has been a fashion icon over the years. And Virgil, wherever he goes or whatever he touches, it’s just cool and he moves with the times. Wacky items, chic items but still with a bit of something cool. It would just be mega-interesting to hear from both of them about how they see fashion, how they got into it and what they’ve brought to it.
[Laughs] I would say David Alaba dresses well, Robert Lewandowski dresses well, and Leon Goretzka. Yes, those three.
[Laughs] Yes, sometimes Thomas Müller is a bit ragged, but he’s certainly improved.
Dashiki.
To do something that helps people or inspires people or helps them get on in life – that kind of direction. I want to build something that’s there for along time.
Voted Germany’s most stylish man by GQ magazine in 2015, Jérôme Boateng has always been a more fascinating character than your average footballer. And he is far from an average footballer, having helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013. Away from the stadium, the tall centre-back with Ghanaian roots is a busy man, boasting a wide array of interests, including his own range of designer glasses and a lifestyle magazine, BOA, which he launched in 2018.
Creativity is obviously a big word. For me, it means that you take in influences from the environment around you, whether it’s on holiday, on the street or just going to training. You look at how people dress and different things. It might even just be a cone that’s cordoning off something on the street. You can take anything. These days, you even see the vests that builders wear coming into fashion. Everyone can be creative in their own way.
That’s a good question. I think fashion. Just because it interests me and I find there’s so much you can do there; you have so much room to be creative. Anyone can let themselves go and have a play around, so there’s a huge amount you can do. It’s also a huge amount of work when you really take it seriously and want to be successful as a designer, but you can obviously play around with things a lot.
Yes, absolutely. It certainly interests me. I think you need work and then you need a good team and good people around you so that you really understand how it runs and what you can do and build.
