Not even a 38-count indictment and public corruption trial can distract Kwame Kilpatrick from the latest fashion trend.
"He is one sharp dressed man," Rod Brown, co-owner of The Shirt Box, a men's clothes store in Farmington Hills, told Francis x. Donnelly of the Detroit News. "Kwame doesn't miss a beat."
Earlier in the trial, a political supporter testified that Kilpatrick had demanded $10,000 to buy suits during a city trip to Dubai in 2002.
He then ditched a dinner party with high-ranking government officials to buy the suits, according to testimony.
While his snazzy outfits may play well in Los Angeles or New York, they won't score many points inside a federal courtroom in Detroit, said jury consultants.
The Detroit News asked jury consultants, image experts and fashion designers about Kilpatrick's seemingly endless supply of suits.
