VIDEO. Brad Pitt in a skirt… the trend has a new follower

In a suit in London, hands in the pockets of her salmon pants in Paris, in a brown skirt in Berlin. It is in Germany that Brad Pitt will have finally made the most sensation, sartorially speaking, by defending the film “Bullet Train” by David Leitch in theaters August 3. The 58-year-old actor thus revealed his tattooed calves with the greatest naturalness. This choice did not go unnoticed. “Iconic” according to Vogue, “the fashion moment of the week” for Vanity Fair.

In 2004 on the occasion of the release of another film, “Troy” in which he embodied Achilles in a skirt in ancient Greece, the American was already predicting that this outfit would soon be the must of the male wardrobe. “Men will be wearing skirts by next summer. That’s my prediction,” he said. Here he is fulfilling the prophecy…almost 20 years later.

Before Brad Pitt, other celebrities were tempted by a skirt or a dress like Harry Styles, Jared Leto or Billy Porter. Going beyond gender conventions is actually an idea that has been gaining ground since the 1970s. At the time, French fashion designer Jacques Esterel pleaded for men to be able to adopt the dress as well.

For them, he draws all the shades, shapes a style and goes down in history. “I think I have opened the last door of freedom, he shouted. It has become obvious that a man in a robe gains in dignity and loses nothing in virility since for me virility is not dressed but exercised”.

From the 1980s, Jean-Paul Gaultier in turn revolutionized the wardrobe of these gentlemen with several parades sublimating the man in a skirt, arguing that “the boys have changed their attitude”, that they want to seduce differently and that the three-piece suit has evolved.

In the eyes of the couturier, skirt and virility once again go hand in hand. Brad Pitt associates skirt and virality. But above all, he wears this cool garment, as if in 2022 there was no longer any debate, that it was no longer necessary to justify oneself. We’re not “the sexiest man alive” named twice by People magazine for nothing…