Lenny Kravitz's Giant Scarf

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About

Lenny Kravitz's Giant Scarf refers to a series of jokes and photoshopped images of American recording artist Lenny Kravitz wearing an oversized scarf.

Origin

On November 23rd, 2012, several photographs of Kravitz wearing a large scarf credited to FameFlynet Pictures was published on Zimbio^[1] (shown below). The captioned the image "Lenny Kravitz Sports A Very Big Scarf."

Spread

On December 17th, the Facebook account ^[2] "Lenny Kravitz's Scarf" launched. That day, Redditor ^[3] diggro posted the image on the /r/pics subreddit, where it received more than 2,000 points (92% upvoted) and 1,100 comments.

In 2014, the scarf began to received photoshop variations, manipulating the image to make the garment appear even bigger. On November 19th, Twitter ^[4] user @janemagnitude posted a photoshopped version of the image with the caption (shown below, left), "Wow Lenny Kravitz scarf game is tew much." Several days later, on November 25th, Twitter^[5] user @stuartbache posted a photoshop with an even bigger scarf (shown below, right).

That day, BuzzFeed ^[6] wrote a commemorative article about the scarf.

Kravitz's Response

On September 17th, 2018, Kravitz appeared on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. During his interview, Fallon asked Kravitz about the scarf, and he confirmed that that is the size of the scarf. He said, "I was buying some groceries, and I thought I’d put on a little scarf to protect my throat, and that’s the scarf I had […] The guy who made that scarf, who you can blame that on, he made that scarf and he gave it to me. That was the day I thought I’d break it out. I had no idea there’d be paparazzi."