For her: Various pants
The topic of underpants as official clothing, as we have already reported on, will be a big thing this fall – at least for people who have to make public appearances. The film and therefore attention festival season traditionally opens in Venice, so it was clear that the bottom-free look from the inventor label Miu Miu would make its first big appearance here.
He could be seen these days when Emma Corrin, a non-binary person from Great Britain, who celebrated her breakthrough as Princess Diana in “The Crown”, got out of the boat. And that despite the fact that it would be a piece of cake for a very young, beautiful person in Venice this year to get the full attention anyway, because, as is well known, many Hollywood stars with the wrong glow don’t even arrive because of strikes. So Emma Corrin is wearing this outfit – cropped hair, grandmother’s cardigan and men’s shoes – definitely not for primitive publicity reasons, so why?
Everything really goes haywire here: the underpants are the official star, but then there are the tights, the waistband of which also peeks cheekily out of them and says: The actual pants, that’s me! It’s a look that is neither sexy nor suggestive of carelessness; it is well-behaved and rebellious at the same time. You could also say: He is non-binary in the best sense of the word. A topic that is very important to the person wearing it, therefore: the only grade A so far in the glamor class 23/24.
For him: high art
The actor Jacob Elordi attracted a lot of attention in Venice, in the truest sense, because the young man is 1.96 meters tall. That’s a size well beyond the old Prussian guard height of 1.88 meters, which certainly doesn’t make men unattractive – but marks the limit from which choosing an outfit becomes difficult. Because on very tall, thin men, suits in particular inevitably appear fluttering and flat and always a bit as if Christo and Jeanne-Claude had packed up the television tower.
Surprisingly, the oversized fashion, which is now also influencing formal wear again, is a blessing in this sense – probably because classic men’s fashion used to be cut wider anyway and the slim and skinny trends of the past decades are more of an aberration.
The double-breasted tuxedo, which Pierpaolo Piccioli from Valentino tailored in a generous shape especially for Elordi, gives the gentle giant a clear and tidy silhouette and visually supports the wearer very nicely, nothing sways, nothing wobbles. The elegant buttoning avoids the effect of excessively long fabric panels on the upper body and structures the wide plain. The only and well-placed caper is a black butterfly appliqué on the lapel, which also loosens things up – and in combination with Elordi’s mild, glowing look, made fans melt in droves. That’s why tie – fly and butterfly would attack each other. Classic menswear, big deal!