HOUSTON (AP) — Felix Hernandez has more than 1,000 pairs of shoes, three different tailors to construct his made-to-order suits and fancies designer T-shirts that cost up to $500 apiece. Hernandez has painstakingly cultivated an eye-catching style over 11 major league seasons. An exercise in flashy elegance might be a better way to term it, featuring closets overflowing with suits that cost thousands of dollars, shoes in all shades of the rainbow and lots and lots of skinny designer jeans. The 2010 American League Cy Young winner wore black Yves Saint Laurent skinny jeans and a T-shirt with a black and white crocodile print by the same designer. There was no crown for King Felix, only a black New Era baseball cap with a gold winking smiley face. [...] the star of the jewelry show was a thick rose gold-and-diamond chain with a medallion depicting Jesus, his piercing eyes formed by two flawless diamonds. Hernandez likes to dress his son in miniature versions of his own outfits and his Instagram account is dotted with pictures of the two in matching ensembles. Hernandez has an endorsement deal with Nike, so naturally he has plenty of tennis shoes, but the All-Stars of his shoe closet are a couple of pairs of colorful $1,700 Christian Louboutin boots and several other pairs of the red-soled stunners bedecked with hundreds of colorful spikes that set him back about $1,495 each. When he's not in those, he dresses almost exclusively in European designers and is partial to Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton and Gucci and even jetted to Europe one offseason to load up on their wares. Because out there I'm mean against the other guys, but like off the field I'm a cool guy.
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By KRISTIE RIEKEN, AP Sports Writer, San Antonio Express-News: World
Fri, 09/18/2015 - 1:23am
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