Nuclear idiot! Music legend George Clinton looks back on seven decades of funky fashion

When it comes to fun, futuristic fashion, George Clinton — the music legend who came up with “One Nation Under Groove” — said that to be out of this world you have to think outside your comfort zone.

“We were always trying to make sure we were disappointed in everything that was going on,” Clinton, 82, told The Post about his seven decades of culture-changing garbing and grooving. “And the only way to do that is to pick the things that you find the most ridiculous, the ones that you find the most ridiculous.

“It’s usually stuff that’s getting ready to knock you out of the box. So when I see kids it gets on my nerves [with their style statements]I know it’s new st.”

“Atomic Dog” master Jon Fluvogue keeps slamming style with his third collaboration with footwear, which includes not only some space-surfing sneakers but also a beach-ready bucket hat.

“We started doing it, and I didn’t realize George was an artist,” said Fluvogue, 76, “so I go, ‘Well, send me some of your art, some paintings and stuff.’ And then we took the pictures that he had and printed them on the leather of the shoes that we did for him. And it was to me, the clicker that it worked.”

And now, you can feel the Clinton beat in her hide “It’s funk, it’s jazz, it’s just letting yourself go,” Fluvogue said. “Your funk is your funk.”

As Clinton makes another new style statement, she looks back at some iconic fashion moments from her career — from Parliament-Funkadelic to Prince.

Grooving with John Fluvogue

George Clinton will rock his Sole Speed ​​Bonneville mesh lace-up sneakers in his latest collaboration with John Fluvogue shoes, as well as a bucket hat from the designer. Ever-fly funkateers have a unique way of working with Fluvog.

“I don’t have a set [designs] for her, and she finds a way to make them work with her print style,” says Clinton, who relies on Fluvogue’s vibrant vision for color combos like this bold mix of purple and orange. “I’m color blind, so I didn’t know what color I was looking at.” But thankfully, he adds, the two “are on the same frequency” from “that psychedelic era that probably influenced us both.”

Out of this world!

Always ahead of his time — and out of this realm — Clinton took his place as the godfather of Afrofuturism when he rode a spaceship on the cover of Parliament’s 1975 album “Mothership Connection.”

“When we saw this look, we were definitely going to space,” said Clinton, who has touted future flight for everyone from Erykah Badu to Janelle Monae. “I was a ‘Star Trek’ freak.”

Connecting rainbow-braids

Clinton was feeling the rainbow when she wore multicolored braids on the cover of her 1993 album “Hey, Man, Smell My Fingers.” It was the revolutionary artist’s second album on Prince’s label, Paisley Park, three years after Clinton appeared in his fellow funkster’s film “Graffiti Bridge” — and four years before the Purple One Parliament-funkadelic was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“There was a place in Minneapolis right down the street from Paisley Park [studio complex] The hair police were called, and they dyed my hair. I was going there during ‘Graffiti Bridge,'” said Clinton, who still misses Prince eight years after his 2016 death: “We were planning to take over the world.”

Silver styling with wife

Clinton’s manager wife, Carlon Thompson-Clinton, has also served as her in-house stylist since they married in 1990. And he was by her side when she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. won a competitive Grammy.) “He puts together different combinations for different occasions … depending on what the thing is,” he said.

This particular look, though, wasn’t exactly comfortable. “The mask was simple,” he said. But not so much the coat, custom-made by Nathalia Gaviria of Beverly Hills-based Clinton Couturier. “It was hard to wear. It was heavy as hell … sometimes it’s painful to look good.”

Purple – and yellow – reign

Honorary Q Dog — as members of the black fraternity call Omega Psi Phi — proudly replaced their purple and yellow colors when Clinton received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January.

“You see a lot of Q dogs at that particular event, so I had some purple and yellow on,” he said. “It was all custom [by Gaviria]. He does a lot for me. He knows my favorite styles and he embraces me.”

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