ICON: Harvey Specter
Harvey Specter, played by Gabriel Macht on USA's Suits. Image from http://www.usanetwork.com/series/suits/theshow/characterprofiles/specter/gallery/#h01.jpg.
Gabriel Macht plays the cool-as-ice, well-dressed, hotshot lawyer Harvey Specter on USA Network’s show Suits.
I mean, with that sentence alone, it’s very clear why we chose Harvey Specter as our next ESM Icon.
For fans of the show, they know that Harvey Specter is portrayed as the best lawyer in New York who wins all his cases and he makes all the ladies (sans his assistant of course) swoon.
Oh and did we mention he was also a college hoops star?
According the USA Network’s official Suits website:
How do you become New York City’s best closer? You don’t play by the rules.
Harvey Specter has built a career and reputation by breaking the rules. Whether it’s picking up cocktail waitresses, inspiring witnesses or bullying CEOs, Harvey’s shoot-from-the-hip style has made him an effective lawyer and a slick character.
But has Harvey forgotten why he got into law? Hiring Mike Ross as his associate might have been his best decision yet. With Mike taking on the low-profile pro bono cases, Harvey will rediscover what makes justice so sweet.
So who preytell is Mike Ross? He’s the main character of the show, who has a photographic memory, no law degree and is hired by Harvey Specter (blah-diditty-blah-blah).
He doesn’t dress really well, isn’t very refined and is obviously a newbie associate, so…. you can watch the show to get all the details about Mike Ross.
We’d rather focus on the badassness that is Harvey Specter. According to Suits’ Wiki page:
Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter: New York’s best closer, a senior partner at Pearson Harden, and former ADA in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. He is revealed to have graduated fifth in his class at Harvard Law, despite Jessica’s statement that “while there, you screwed around”. He dislikes taking on pro bono cases. He is from Chicago.
I think Wikipedia forgot one small detail in Harvey Specter’s character profile – his suit game is tight.
Oh and did we mention Gabriel Macht played Stackhouse in Behind Enemy Lines (the main pilot that got shot in the beginning of the movie)?
Yeah – plus 5 points for this ESM Icon. And plus 10 points for you if you were aware of that little factoid ahead of time.
For more information about Suits, Harvey Specter and Gabriel Macht, you can check out the official USA Network Suits website at http://www.usanetwork.com/series/suits/index.html.
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What designers does Harvey Spector wear? Are hs suits all made to measure?
Here are some articles we found online:
How to cop the Harvey Specter style:
http://www.theurbangent.com/2011/08/mini-style-guide-to-suits-harvey-specter-gabriel-macht.html
An interview with Gabriel Macht, where he admits all his suits are from Tom Ford:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/07/qa-gabriel-macht-suits-up-for-usa-network-.html