Makeover for the magnates

IT honchos are notorious for sticking to their sartorial trademarks. Zuckerberg is a hoodie worm and Tim Cook does not stray beyond vanilla. Bored by their wardrobe, we drape Bezos and Co in famous outfits from entertainment history.

Disco Jeff: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos showed a willingness to experiment with his clothes when he came to India. But Mithun says, “Agar ma ka doodh piya hai, wear my gold suit from Disco Dancer”.

Groovy Tim: Apple’s phones may bend but their bottomlines remain in the pink of health. Maybe Cook should celebrate the next bull run at the bourses with a jig in John Travolta’s famous white suit from Saturday Night Fever. Never mind what U2 will say.


Satya Nadella: No raise, just a zoot suit: After Satya Nadella’s foot-in-the-mouth moment about women and their salaries, the Microsoft management may decide against giving him a hike and present him with the zoot suit from The Mask instead. Very 1994, just like some of Nadella’s views.

Bill Gates: Spotless in Seattle: With his work in philanthropy and health, Gates is a bit of a saviour of the world, like Neo from The Matrix. And he will look rather sharp in Neo’s all black ensemble instead of his usual dad pants and button down shirts.

Whack the hoodie: Mark Zuckerberg may not be in the waste management business, but he is The Boss of social media. And therefore needs to dress in something acceptable — like Tony Soprano’s bath robe. Anything but the hoodie.

Where no Chinese techpreneur has gone before: Like Spock from Star Trek, few hotshots from the Orient have gone as far as Jack Ma, mad scientist of the IT world. The rate at which Alibaba is going, everyone will soon give Ma the Vulcan salute.