Keith Richards has revealed why his style is so singular: he is a cross-dresser. -always swap clothes with my wife-. He can wear anything and make it look great," Richards daughter Alexandra said. "He wears my mum’s pyjama pants and blouses, and still makes them look amazing. It’s cool.”
The Rolling Stones rock star has confessed the majority of the clothes he owns are borrowed from the women in his life. (Sources: Telegraph - Daily Mail) ."I’ve been stripped of half my wardrobe. I still wear these damn things. They’re not history to me – they’re my clothes."
He claims he still swaps clothes with his daughters and that he also turns to his wife Patti Hansen, when in need of new outfits.
Stones ditched the teen-idol houndstooth. After some clever P.R. (“Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?”)
The guitar player who often wears loud jackets and colourful headscarves, admitted that wearing women's clothes has been part of his life since The Rolling Stones' humble beginnings in the early 1960s – and that no girlfriend's wardrobe has ever been off-limits.
"Anita (Pallenberg) and I used to swap clothes, Patti (Hansen) and I have always swapped clothes. Even my daughters and I swap clothes. Not so much nowadays – now they just take them."
"Mick and I have never swapped clothes much, either. There was a point in the 1970s when we all had a load of similar jackets made up and it didn’t matter whose was whose. Except when I got busted with acid in the pocket of one and had to say, 'Hey that’s not my acid! Well, I’ll take the rap, I guess'."
