The Grammy-winning rap star Drake showed off one particularly jaw-dropping space inside his Toronto estate on Tuesday, June 10, and let's say subtlety was not invited. Sharing a single photo to Instagram with the caption, "Where's that one shirt though…" Drake shared perhaps the most extravagant flex of the year: his entire NBA-sized basketball court converted into a color-coded T-shirt sanctuary. And no, that is not an exaggeration. We're talking about racks on racks (literal ones) of thousands of tees, organized by shade and sleeve length, and spread wall-to-wall in "The Embassy," Mr. Derringer's 50,000-square-foot architectural fun house of a home.
You know, the ones, the type you look at while scrolling through your feed and exclaim, "damn, this guy is already living in 3025."
From obscure vintage sportswear trades to what looks like a Queensland Reds rugby jersey worn on his Australian tour, the display also functions as a walk-through timeline of Drake's globe-trotting career and his evolution as a stylish one. But make no mistake: This isn't just a fashion collection. This spectacle is a curated, calculated intersection of Drake's favorite worlds: luxury, sports, and storytelling.
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And, lest we forget, this takes place on a basketball court that rests beneath a 21-square-foot pyramidal skylight in a $150 million mansion designed by Ferris Rafauli, the identical house with that 4,000-pound black marble bathtub, a custom grand piano that was the brainchild of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, and a two-story closet with diamond-tufted shearling benches and amethyst drawer pulls.
Drake once explained to Architectural Digest that he had aimed for a home that exuded "overwhelming high luxury," a house that would be as good a hundred years from now as it was in 2017 when he let the camera crew in for the home tour. Judging by this latest move, the mission is more than accomplished. He's not only living large but has rewritten the game's rules.
Although most of us are still figuring out how to keep a sock from disappearing in the dryer, Drake's curating a museum-grade exhibit out of his T-shirts. Perhaps the question is not, "Where is that one shirt?" it may even be, "Is this what manifesting looks like?"
Either way, Drake just reminded the world that when it comes to combining style with scale, no one runs the game quite like he does. And yes, he no doubt still knocks down jumpers in there after he's finished picking out an outfit.
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