Fashion
ASAP Rocky’s Trial Style Scrambles the Signals
Fans could be forgiven for mistaking the rapper’s court appearances for fashion shoots.
The photos will feel familiar to anybody who follows ASAP Rocky.
The rapper/actor/brand-endorser extraordinaire, strides forth from a black SUV, wearing immaculate designer clothes and blacked out Ray-Bans, with a Bogart-like flair.
In some of these shots, Rocky wears a $4,000 Saint Laurent trench coat and crimson tie, in others he wears a vast Gucci cashmere coat, despite Los Angeles’s temperate climes. He’s flanked by thickset bodyguards and steps toward the camera looking self-assured and placid.
We’ve seen similar paparazzi shots of Rocky many times before — as he wades to the front row of a fashion show, or accompanies his wife Rihanna to dinner.
The setting, however, for this latest slew of Rocky photos, is the Los Angeles County Superior Court house.
For more than a week, the rapper, born Rakim Mayers, has arrived at this boxy judicial edifice to stand trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, stemming from a 2021 altercation with his former collaborator ASAP Relli, born Terell Ephron.
