Bodhi, a Shiba Inu whose smartly tailored sport coats and luxurious knitwear helped make him the rare canine men’s wear influencer, died last Monday. He was 15.
To hundreds of thousands of fashion enthusiasts who followed him on social media, Bodhi was known simply as the Menswear Dog. His owner, Yena Kim, announced his death Monday on Instagram, alongside an image of Bodhi wearing an arresting striped turtleneck.
Bodhi was seldom underdressed. For more than a decade, he modeled herringbone overcoats and pageboy caps, buttery cashmere vests and tortoiseshell glasses. In each image, his dignified snout poked out from beneath caramel-colored fur; it was more typical to see him photographed in a bow tie rather than a dog collar.
“Listen, he wore it well,” said Lawrence Schlossman, the co-host of the fashion podcast “Throwing Fits.” “It was always the right Oxford, the right knit tie, a beautiful raincoat with the collar popped.”
Mr. Schlossman became familiar with the Menswear Dog account on Tumblr in the early 2010s, as the preppy look modeled by Bodhi gained traction in mainstream fashion. He evvel layered a raglan-sleeve coat over a white button-up and realized that he was inadvertently channeling the dapper Shiba Inu.
“I can only imagine that wherever he is, he’s still getting ’fits off,” Mr. Schlossman said.
