It looks like Colin Farrell is the latest actor to succumb to the allure of the vest-top-suit-combo this week, a trend that's been hot on the red carpet recently where it’s been adopted by fellow actors like Regé-Jean Page, Donald Glover and Timothée Chalamet.
The 46-year-old Irish actor was at the premier of ‘Thirteen Lives’, an upcoming biographical survival film directed and produced by the legendary Ron Howard, in an outfit that oozed Malibu confidence: the runaway wet-look hair, the unbuttoned, loose-fitting peak lapelled linen suit worn over tight-on-the-pecs white vest and accessorised with grey suede loafers and a silver necklace. No buttoned-up shirt and tie or highly polished shoes here: Farrell’s too much of a rule breaker to wear such conventional red carpet garb.
What we love most about it though is that it’s an ensemble that nods back to the actor's role in Miami Vice, a film adaptation of the hit 80s TV show where looser-fitting suits, blousy shirts, bare chests and wide-leg trousers featured as much as all of the action-packed crime-busting. It coincided with the rise of Armani’s new proposition for tailoring (which he debuted on Richard Gere in neo-noir drama American Gigolo), which was sexier, less form fitting and formal, but sadly fell out of favour when the skinny suit returned in the 90s.
Though we might hail Hollywood’s younger stars as the brave new proponents of sexy suiting. We feel obliged to remind you: Farrell did it first.
