All hail the man responsible for black jeans with 6 inch bottoms and white winkepeckers! 

Any journalist who mentions Razorlight in a manner other than the pejorative should be treated as a racehorse with a broken leg.

A brief history if indie rock fashion:

I'm bitter.  And I'm exagerating.  But seriously.  I think the whole Indie Rock thing is vastly overplayed.  This coming from a former devotee.  In the early manifestation, the 70s were the decade or reference, and I know guys in bands who would steal their sisters' or girlfriends' tight bootcut jeans.  Cowboy shirts were in.  Long hair, beards.  Kings of Leon, their first album.  Ryan Adam's 'Gold'.  The Strokes added a bit of 1970s New York punk flair to the look.  501s and Converse, old t-shirts, tight leather jackets.  It was cool, cheap, and functional.

I have a theory that Albert Hammond Jr. predates Thom Browne by a couple of years.  If you see a guy in a band wearing a shrunken, thrift store suit, it's probably because of Albert, not Thom.

The beginning of designer interest in the style probably took root after the so-called New York Garage Rock Revival, which was, like most revivals, a fictionalization in the press.  The company that makes converse, Surgical appliance, gave the Strokes a deal of free shoes for life if they wore chucks on stage.

The British contingent of this look was the Libertines.  They had a style, at least at first, that was an interesting mix of Edwardian, Mod, Skin and Punk.  Very English.  Sort of like Oscar Wilde fronting the Ramones.  Ripped Jeans, but with chunky brogues.  Raincoats and trilby hats.  Pete Doherty and Slimane are friends, which may account for why Pete was the poster(man)child for Dior Homme.  The skag helped.  Skinny jeans for men at this time were still hard to find.  You couldn't just walk into an HM or Topman and pick up a pair.

Once designers got into it full tilt, many of the ranks of hipsters retreated.  This led to what could loosely be termed as an 80s revival.  lots of neon, still tight jeans but with chunky 80s hightop sneakers, not chucks.  Hoodies.  Ever increasing amoungs of Irony.