The fine editors at Out know that the best way to wait for summer sun is to run a swimwear edit in February. Spanish model — and Kylie Minogue’s new himbo — Andrés Velencoso Segura is starring in Buffalo Stance, shot in Florida by Xevi Muntané.

The title is an homage to Scottish stylist Ray Petri (1948-1989),  a major influential figure in men’s fashion, whose spirit — the Buffalo style — still and often turns up in today’s collections.

As Edwin Cabrera explained in a 2006 Niwdenapolis story: Petri brought street fashion into the mainstream when before it was just all about power dressing. Ray turned his back on designer clothes. He pioneered the DIY post-punk styling. Ray believed that you can re-create all of these looks from thrift shop clothes and stuff that you’ve borrowed from your grandparents. Petri’s look took bits and pieces of Britain’s post-punk ’80s: East Indians, blacks, punk whites, rude boys, mods, ragamuffin Jamaicans, New Romantics and boxers, and tossed them into an exotic whole.

And the phenomenon was somehow cemented by Neneh Cherry with her 1988 hit Buffalo Stance. “The song is about our gang, our time and our mentor, Ray, who is still behind every word and every melody,” said Cherry in a 2007 interview with the New York Times.

You can even try this at home. 4 simple rules: long sleeves, white socks, leather shoes — and show some leg!

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