Justin Timberlake Claims Credit for Trucker Hat Trend
In a new interview with Vanity Fair's Fashion Rocks, Justin Timberlake claims credit for starting the trend of wearing trucker hats.
"It's funny, I keep hearing Ashton Kutcher say how he was responsible for trucker caps," says Timberlake, 27, in the cover story for Fashion Rocks, a magazine supplement sent to Vanity Fair subscribers with the new issue.
Timberlake maintains that he and best friend Trace Ayala – with whom he launched the William Rast denim line in 2005 – "were wearing them when we were seventeen."
Still, the singer admits he doesn't try to be trendsetter. "Honestly, I don't walk out of my house thinking, Man, I hope somebody thinks this looks cool!" he says. "There's some stuff I wear that people think is not cool."
This is not really a trend that one should be taking credit for. In fact, let Ashton take all the credit. It looked goofy then and it looks goofy now. Lose them. Unless you're a trucker, of course.