That newfound fame also led to him being signed by Puma as the first sports star to serve as a brand ambassador. That’s the whole personification of the Clyde image.” “And that’s how it all evolved with the fashion and getting into the colors and the Rolls-Royce. “Once I started to play well, the press started to focus on it,” he said. Walt “Clyde” Frazier with his Rolls-Royce in 1973. It wasn’t long until his distinctive style - fedoras, mink coats and wildly patterned suits that he donned as he drove around town in a Rolls-Royce - gave him the confidence he needed to excel on the court as well. He recalled how early on in his career he wasn’t playing well and hated New York with its unrelenting hustle and bustle, so to “pacify” himself, he went shopping.
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In his video for the campaign, the 77-year-old Frazier starts out by ticking off his professional accomplishments and then moves into telling his personal story: he was born in Atlanta, the oldest of nine, at the time of segregation when Black people were told they would “never be anything.” But he listened to his parents who said he could accomplish whatever he dreamed if he had “confidence and a tenacious work ethic.” His goal, he said, was to have his skill in basketball provide him the opportunity to buy his mother a house with a big kitchen, which he accomplished in 1973. Penélope Cruz, Sadie Sink and More Attend the Chanel Soirée in Venice
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