I Don't Do Fashion ; ... So Why has Liam Gallagher Launched a Clothing Range? And Is It Really Fair of Him to Call His Brother Noel the Least Stylish Rock Star of All Time? Interview by Chris Sullivan [Eire Region]

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no, no, no, no, no!' Liam Gallagher shouts. 'The day I ask my missus for advice on what I should wear, I'll just pack it all in and go home. I know what looks good on me and that is as far as it goes. No one can tell me what to wear. I do what I like.' I had innocently enquired whether the multimillionaire Oasis frontman, better known for lager and brawling, might possibly have been influenced by his pop-star wife in launching a clothes label called Pretty Green. Clearly not.

'Pretty Green is subtle,' he explains, his wide Manchester accent unaltered by years in the south of England. 'No big stripes, nothing flash or loud. It's classic stuff -- trench coats, parkas, desert boots, nice cashmeres. Nothing wild, man -- just good clobber. It's more about style, really, than fashion because it's me and I won't take any notice of trends. I don't do fashion. In my opinion a girl has to look like a girl and a lad look like a lad. Look at them pointed shoes. They're for girls. I don't like these skin-tight jeans either. I don't mind a bit of slim, but I can't tell whether you are a chick or a bloke...

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I Don't Do Fashion ; ... So Why has Liam Gallagher Launched a Clothing Range? And Is It Really Fair of Him to Call His Brother Noel the Least Stylish Rock Star of All Time? Interview by Chris Sullivan [Eire Region]

'A lot of people are having a pop at these,' he exclaims, plonking a foot on the table to show me his faux (I hope) leopardskin Yves St Laurent soft driving loafers. 'They're my pride and joy. I love 'em.' Gallagher has always been obsessed with clothes.

After being expelled from school aged 15 for fighting, he found a job creosoting fences and, to fund his clothes habit, selling knocked-off Stone Island and Calvin Klein from a huge holdall on street corners. 'He used to smother his hair in gel, n...

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