In Character: Krusty the Clown

How do you make an angry, substance-abusing clown seem at least 7% more kid-friendly? Bright, crazy clothes. Here’s how Krusty (or, if you’d rather, Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky) half-heartedly sells his persona. —erica

A YMC shirt just business-like enough to keep Sideshow Bob Mel in line. 

A blue bowtie, made by Forage, not the Krusty Korporation.

Cheap Monday pants—as green as the hundred dollar bills he uses to light his cigarettes.

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This Delfina Delettrez bowtie necklace is, like most her of her designs, quirky and a touch weird—in the best possible way. —claire