In line with Glover’s longtime stylist Ilaria Urbinati, this has been a aware evolution. They began working collectively not lengthy after Atlanta first premiered in 2016, segueing Glover’s blooming auteur persona into an accompanying crimson carpet wardrobe. When he was selling his position as a younger Lando Calrissian within the Star Wars spinoff film Solo, they settled right into a dapper, structured ’70s scenario (to go with the unique Star Wars period) that lasted up till the pandemic—which, as all of us are accustomed to by now, is when all the things shifted. They met again up in spring 2022 when it got here time for Glover to advertise the ultimate season of his hit FX present Atlanta, and as Urbinati remembers it, “he simply appeared far more like, zen Donald. He had gone by means of stuff in his personal life.” From there, issues obtained looser, silkier, extra relaxed. Zen Donald emerged in 2022 with a shaved head and that cheery gray-ish beard, sporting a pair of luxuriously floppy pastel leisure fits: a marshmallow-pink Zegna have a look at the ultimate Atlanta season premiere and a serene yellow set from the London-based model King & Tuckfield to the 2022 Vainness Honest get together. Off the carpet, he turned heads when he went for a jog in New York Metropolis sporting a bucket hat, tiny shorts—and little else. It was a glance potent sufficient to land him on our end-of-year greatest suits record in December: “I simply love that Donald Glover principally solely wore 4 outfits this 12 months (publicly) and a really stable quick shorts / bucket hat combo, and nonetheless made it [to] GQ’s finest dressed males of 2022 record,” Urbinati wrote on Instagram.
Extra just lately, it’s nonetheless evolving: the vibe has been cozy (the fuzzy yellow Zegna) and peculiar (the cutout McQueen) and insouciant (the inexperienced Valentino). Funnily sufficient, Urbinati had really needed Glover to put on the yellow Zenga outfit to the Vainness Honest afterparty earlier this 12 months, however realized she’d already dressed him in gentle yellow to the identical occasion the 12 months prior; “I used to be like, solely Donald, would we now have the difficulty of too many lemon-yellow outfits,” she joked. Fortunately the swap additionally made sense thematically; for Swarm, Glover’s new Amazon Prime collection a few Beyhive-esque fandom; the lemon-yellow look turns into a nod to the Lemonade of all of it.
“I at all times jokingly seek advice from him as my muse,” says Urbinati, who’s dressed a lot of Hollywood’s most well-known males together with The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Rami Malek, plus current standouts like Barry Keoghan and Diego Calva, for over a decade now. “I work in a different way with totally different purchasers. Typically it is extra like, ‘Oh, I am actually into this proper now. I am into that.’ With him, virtually no matter else is going on on the planet of vogue does not actually have a bearing on what I placed on him, as a lot as what I am studying off of his temper.”
“It’s an fascinating factor as a result of it’s a time when everyone seems to be sporting loopy shit,” she provides, “and you don’t need it to get into this bizarre peacocking of making an attempt to put on loopy stuff for the sake of it.”
However Donald? “He’s all the way down to play,” she says. And on this new period of formalwear, that’s at all times an important place to start out.
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