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"FacebookPinterest\n\n At the AMFAR Cinema Fights Aids 2012 charity gala during the Cannes Film Festival last week, the band Fun entertained the crowd of billionaires and models at the Hotel du Cap. Before the fete, we caught up with lead singer Nate Ruess\u2014whose single \"We Are Young\" just won't leave the top ten\u2014and asked him about a very familiar-looking tudo.\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\nGQ: How'd you get involved with AMFAR and end up here tonight?\n\n Nate Ruess: They asked us to be a part of it. We were coincidentally in France, and from what I've heard it's an incredible organization.\n\nGQ: I'm not usually a style reporter, but I'm in Cannes and I'm wearing black-tie.\n\n Nate Ruess: Why not?\n\nGQ: When you do black tie, do you have a specific approach? A ritual?\n\n Nate Ruess: For us, it's actually pretty intense because when we shot what was intended to be the album cover of Some Nights, we just didn't end up liking anything. So we end up spending, like, 5,000 dollars on suits, each of us individually, before the song took off and the album took off. We were actually kind of crying, like \"Oh my god, I can't believe we just spent 5,000 dollars on a suit.\" I think we all swore to each other that we would make the suits last as much as possible. So, there's no ritual. There's just pulling it out. This suit I'm wearing tonight was on the album cover. It's in the music video for \"We Are Young.\" It was in some of our press shots. Andrew, our keyboardist, he got married in the suit that we ended up buying. And I wore my suit to his wedding.\n\nGQ: Where's the suit from?\n\n Nate Ruess: It's Band of Outsiders. I will go on the record of saying I'm fucking shocked that initially we reached out to them and asked if we could get some suits and they said no. And then we were doing the MTV Movie Awards in a few weeks and we asked if we could get some suits. They said no. It's a shame because I love the freaking suits. Somehow we can't get supplied with a suit!\n\nGQ: To you, it's a big part of your image?\n\n Nate Ruess: Yeah, and recently we had to go elsewhere. When you're speaking just strictly design, this is the best suit I've ever owned, and I paid a lot of money for it at Barneys in New York.\n\nGQ: What do you like about it? It's very slim.\n\n Nate Ruess: It's tailored. It's the best-fitting suit that I've ever had. I don't think that there's going to be a better-fitting one. My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that. She told us, \"You guys have to do Band of Outsiders. These suits are perfect for you guys.\"\n\nGQ: And you go bow tie, no rocker's skinny black tie?\n\n Nate Ruess: I thought that was Albert Hammond, Jr., 2002? The bow tie is cartoonish, but it works.\n\nGQ: Today you're wearing Ray-Bans with the tux.\n\n Nate Ruess: I do abide by the \"sun never sets on the cool\" thing. But it's sunny out right now and if you catch me later on when it's dark outside I will take them off.\n\nGQ: When you travel to Europe, are there certain things you pack each time?\n\n Nate Ruess: Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money. But, eventually, I decided, I'm going to buy the best suitcase that I could ever possibly buy. So, I bought this Rimowa suitcase.\n\nGQ: How'd that work out?\n\n Nate Ruess: My girlfriend was like, \"How much did you spend on it?\" I told her, \"I'm not going to tell you.\" I ended up packing it and I was walking it through security at Newark. One of the guys that worked at Newark stopped me and said, \"Oh, you must be rich. You've got a rich person's suitcase.\" I thought, fucking hell... The only thing I've spent money on in the last three years is a suitcase and the first fucking person that sees it calls me out.\n\nGQ: Ha!\n\n Nate Ruess: But the crazy thing is that, since I bought it, we've gone on maube ten flights across Europe it's been dented like crazy. I kept telling everybody else in the band, \"This is a fucking Hummer.\" Everybody's like, \"Your suitcase is amazing.\" By like the third flight they were like, \"This thing's a piece of shit.\" I feel like I'm slagging everybody off...\n\nGQ: All your favorite things you hate. You're a deeply conflicted person.\n\n Nate Ruess: I know. Like, the only things I've spent money on in the last few years haven't returned the favor."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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