Quentin Crisp, Dandy Style Icon, Remembered in New Film

The unlikely style icon Quentin Crisp is being celebrated in "An Englishman in New York," a new film to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month to mark the tenth anniversary of his death at the age of 90.

If the title sounds familiar, it's because Sting wrote a little song about him you might have heard. But Crisp -- with his dandy style of a fedora resting on pastel-dyed hair, neck scarf, velvet coat and lapel pin -- was also a muse to fashion designers.

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