Sean Avery: The Fashion-Eyed Enforcer's Interview With AskMen.com

To some, Sean Avery is a goon while to others he is an example in male fashion. To a guy myself I wouldn’t mind learning a thing or two so that i might look even classier for a woman.

Sean Avery in many aspects is good for the hockey world, at least off the ice. He shows around Hollywood events and NHL award shows with super model dates. He is proof to women that hockey players aren’t the disgusting mullet sporting foul mannered goons of the past.

Sean Avery wears Armani and other expensive name brand suits, can check your spine in half, can fight you anytime anywhere, and flap his arms like a bird causing rule changes. Bottom line his newest fall fashion is a Star on his chest. That Dallas jersey could be the best fashion statement I have ever seen Avery claim.

Sean Avery recently sat down with AskMen.com regarding his hockey career and his eye for fashion. The first half of the interview addresses his on ice antics, and the second half focused more on his internship with Vogue. Not that I’m not into fashion, but this is a sports website. Below is the first half of the interview from AskMen.com.

When you get on the ice, you’re a completely different beast compared to when you’re off it. What happens?

Yeah, I turn into a f*ckin’ animal. I think I’m probably so relaxed off the ice because I’m so high-strung on the ice. I get it all out of my system. It’s funny -- I always know when it’s the end of the summer because I usually get aggravated a lot easier because I haven’t played a game in so long; I haven’t fought anybody.

The NHL changed its rule book based on your interference with goaltender Martin Brodeur in April 2008. Was that a strategy going in, or did you just see the opportunity to get away with it while you were out there?

It was an ongoing battle for about a year, and in the play-offs, because it was New York and New Jersey, and I was getting penalties called against me that weren’t really penalties, I had to think of a way to screen Brodeur without turning my back to him. Every time I turned my back to him, he’d kick my feet out, or if I got pushed into him, I’d get a penalty, so I just went out there and it was just one of those crazy spur-of-the-moment things -- I just thought, like how am I going to do this? And it just came to me, so I just skated in front of him, and the rest, I guess, is history -- literally.

How did you first get into fashion?

My first real memory is -- it’s a big company now in the U.S., but it was started in Canada, Chip & Pepper -- I was always into them, and that was like the big thing that kinda kicked it off, then I really started getting into clothes and it just kind of evolved from there. I lived in L.A. for five years, sorta got into it there, but obviously, coming to New York, it’s certainly the most fashion-forward city, next to Montreal, in North America. So then I get to New York, and it just kinda took off. Even if they’re not into clothes that much, people are kind of forced to be here because there’s such a high standard of how people dress.

Do you get heat from the other guys for being so into style?

No, I help them. I save them. I turn all the single guys into eligible bachelors instead of boring dumb hockey players that wear baggy clothes.

I actually have had even coaches come to me. Not that I know everything, but I’ve got a little bit of a better handle on it than they do.

How did the Vogue internship come together? How was your experience there?

We were in Pittsburgh, and I was just thinking about what I was going to do when the season was over, and you know, you think about things -- there’s a lot of downtime and I’m constantly thinking about stuff. I just thought it would be something that would be amazing, I mean, if I could do it, why not try? I wrote a letter, and expressed my interest and desire to come and do an internship there, and they were nice enough to let me come and experience it and learn and just kind of soak it all up.

(the second half involving Avery's take on fashion can be found by following the below link)

Original Source for the interview: Courtesy of AskMen.com

Photo: Courtesy of River City Sports

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