Philly Vespa

PHILLY VESPA IS PROUD TO PRESENT THAT JEAN- PAUL BELMONDO, A PROUD VESPA OWNER, WAS VOTED ONE OF GQ’S 50 MOST STYLISH LEADING MEN AND TO HONOR HIM GQ CHOOSE TO WRITE THE BELOW DESCRIPTION ON HIS CAREER AND POST THE FOLLOWING PICTURE OF PAUL ON HIS VESPA. Of all the elements that make up Jean-Paul Belmondo's inimitable style, clothes are perhaps the least important; with his cocky walk and bruising good looks, he could've made a powder blue tux cool. The Frenchman saw no con...tradiction between his fondness for fat, unfiltered Gauloise cigarettes and being sportif: He was an amateur welterweight boxer, a goalie for the soccer team he co-owned; once he even scaled all twenty-six stories of a Hong Kong Hiltonfor kicks. When Belmondo brought this intense physicality and easy, unforced beauty to the screen, the effect was startling. With his breakout role as the Bogart-and-jazz-loving outlaw Michel in Godard's Breathless, Belmondo fundamentally altered film audiences' expectations of how a male lead should look and act. He was slangy, irreverent, and utterly modernthe perfect embodiment of the iconoclastic French New Wave spirit. And he looked pretty good in a suit, tooLAURENCE LOWE See more