Artist Tracking- Robbie

I have decided to take a detailed look into how the image of Robbie Williams has evolved throughout the course of his career, as he has aged quite a bit since his debut in 1990 at the young age of 16. As you can see on the right, he is already looking pretty cool right out of the gate, he is photographed here wearing RayBan sunglasses and a stylish patterned shirt. he was also often seen at this time in his wire frame glasses, and although they made him look a bit like harry potter, it was quite a distinctive style. It was clear that he was focused on looking stylish and colourful especially with his swept across hair and brown leather jacket.








If we fast forward to 1995 upon the release of Take That's "back for good", we can see that Robbie's style has changed drastically. we can also see the influence of the direction of the band with the greyscale and serious expressions. Robbie's personal style here though is radically different to his debut. Firstly his hair has been shaved off and too have his sunglasses. He also is wearing all black in this image. all of these things come together to create a much more serious and grown up look for Robbie, this gives us the impression that he has matured quite a bit since he joined the band.






Fast forward another six years to 2001, a new millennium and two years into his solo career, we can see that Robbie has changed his look again. Most notably here, Robbie's got his hair back, although there's something different about it this time, a big bleach blonde highlight right down the centre. It may look a bit ridiculous now but it was just an experimental style that he didn't keep for long. Robbie is showing here that it's good for blokes to experiment with drastically different styles in the way that many female artists do.He has stuck with the black clothing although thankfully has lost the turtleneck.


Two years later in 2003, Robbie shows off his growing collection of tattoos, he has quite a few covering his arms and torso here. you will also notice that he has already gotten rid of the mad bleached hair in favour of all black. He is also only wearing a vest on stage in his performance here, trying to show off for the ladies no doubt. It's pretty clear by this point actually that Robbie sees himself as some sort of male sex symbol, and gladly embraces that.





If we fast forward again to 2009 we can see Robbie as he's poised to re-join Take That. He's got his shirt on this time (barely). Aside from his new-found tan though, there has not been a great amount of change made to his style since 2003. Although all members of the band were on board with Robbie coming back to the band in '09, he never actually went through with it. As the current pattern is going, we can definitely tell that Robbie is becoming more concerned with looking sexy than looking cool, although he does still look pretty cool.








Now if we finally progress to modern Day, 2014, we can see Robbie's latest look. Here he is on the left and it looks like we may have slipped back into 2001. Beside the return of the bleach though, Robbie has grown out of the sexy shirtless style and is actually dressing quite smart for a lot of his performances now, a more traditional look for male solo singers. It looks as if Robbie has accepted that he's not a young lad anymore and really gone for a more mature and respectable style.


That is the complete Style of Robbie Williams from his debut up to modern day, he has shown quite an evolution from young lad to middle aged man, from cool dude to sex symbol  and now to dapper father.