Jake Gyllenhaal & Justin Bieber Go Big on the Trousers. But Can You?
05.04.2022 - 16:23
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wide. Think less Harmony Korine Dickies throwback, more fancy dress zoot suit – of which a direct facsimile has landed in the real world. Last night at the LA premiere of Ambulance (the latest Michael Bay spectacle that puts paramedics at the centre of his signature pyrotechnic show), two of its stars in Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II went for these such trousers.
In the former, it was Wall Street-adjacent, and slate grey. For the latter, showboaty, bright pink, and wider still. There has been no dilution in the runway-to-rail pipeline.
This is real, proper, WOW OK menswear, and it's emblematic of just how liberal big stars have gotten with their red carpet gear – which, once upon a time, was mostly serious actors in serious suits that had very serious jobs to do. Gallery: Highlights from London Fashion Week so far (Harper's Bazaar (UK))It was less of a surprise when, a day prior, Justin Bieber went big at the Grammys. With a long history of fits that fill many column inches, the 28-year-old matched the massive trousers with a massive blazer courtesy of Balenciaga.
Again, this feels direct from the runway; an abstraction of the designer that has made it unscathed through the usual vetting process. What's more, it's emblematic of Bieber's place in menswear's canon. He's a founding father of the big and marshmallow Cosy Boy thing.
The oversized tailoring thing too. So, big runway trousers are more expected on his legs than those of a Hollywood actor 10 years his senior. More expected, though still sort of rogue.
While Very Famous Men have, understandably, more wriggle room with the stuff on their back, trousers of this size are divisive. It's hard to understand whether they'd work in real life. Harder still is
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