Cannes Is Warm but Blacked-Out Calvin Klein Is Hot
With sunrays abeam and temperatures almost hitting 80°F, Cannes’ storied film festival is heating up thanks to southern France's Mediterranean spring.
Front and center, find two of our favorite fashion boys, A$AP Rocky and Pedro Pascal. As if they themselves and the weather weren't hot enough, both of them went all-black on the red carpet, causing yet another hike up the thermometer — literally and figuratively.
The actor and rapper each wore Calvin Klein Collection, a high-end line revived earlier this year by newly appointed creative director Veronica Leoni.
Decked in a sleeveless merino top, pleated flares, and studded leather boots, Pedro Pascal is a sleekly sexy sight to behold, though God knows he hardly felt as cool as he looked.
Days later, Mr. Robyn Rihanna Fenty wore a wool brown-on-the-verge-of-black suit, complete with square toe Derbys. The dark palette made for an occasion-befitting elegance, whereas the relaxed silhouette allowed for a (hopefully) breezier fit, in every sense of the word.
Having presented her debut for CK's luxury imprint in February, this duo of monochrome outfits was a chance to admire, out in the wild, Leoni’s mastery of tailoring and all things quietly luxurious. (Amongst other impressive gigs, the Italian designer cut her teeth at none other than The Row.)
It was also an endearing display of Rocky and Pascal's co-ordinating tastes: Ahead of his appearance at the film festival, the latter was caught donning head-to-toe BV at the airport in an outfit that looked straight from the former's playbook (A$AP Rocky's long been muse for and fan of Matthieu Blazy's Bottega Veneta).
Now, on the red carpet, they once again prove a shared great taste, being amongst the firsts to wear Leoni’s new Calvin Klein. And both doing so through monochrome outfits. It seems the dapper duo’s moving from one worshipper of the savvily timeless to the next, in sync.
Monochromatic minimalism won big this year anyhow, with celebrities beyond the aforementioned opting out of summer color kitsch. From Alexander Skarsgård in his cunty Saint Laurent boots, to Julianne Moore in Louise Trotter’s #NewNewNewBottega, black stays the new black.
“It's getting hot in [Cannes], so [put on] all [black] clothes,” I guess.
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