The 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards Was Chock-Full of Stone-Cold (and Coldstone) Menswear

We’re three weeks into 2023 and awards season is immediately all over the place and abruptly. The 2023 Critics’ Selection Awards came about in Los Angeles on Sunday, simply 5 days after the Golden Globes kicked off the annual red-carpet run on Tuesday, and the attendees who didn’t take a look at optimistic for COVID hit a Cold Stone Creamery-branded step-and-repeat.

And if the Globes was the yr’s first menswear vibe examine, then the Critics’ Selection was all in regards to the rebound instances.

We’re nonetheless seeing a number of fits in nearly every other coloration than black: Seth Rogen and Jeremy Allen White took up the mantle from the Jeremy Sturdy Ebook of Brown, Brian Tyree Henry and Johnny Knoxville (!) went full ice cream paint job, and Tyler James Williams and Andrew Garfield selected unconventional neutrals. There was a near-absence of normal neckties, with many choosing jaunty bowties or the ever-general “air tie.” For each set of lace-up Oxfords made to remain at residence, there was a pair of loafers able to take their place.

There have been some key precise awards season takeaways from the present as effectively: The whole lot In every single place at As soon as took residence a trophy for Greatest Image, and so too did its star, Ke Huy Quan, who gained Greatest Supporting Actor whereas carrying a wonderful burgundy-velvet Armani jacket; Brendan Fraser gave a whopper of a speech for after he nabbed a Greatest Actor win for his efficiency in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale: “I used to be within the wilderness, and I most likely ought to have left a path of breadcrumbs, however you’ve discovered me,” he advised Aronofsky, earlier than persevering with: “For those who, like a man like Charlie, who I performed on this film, in any method, battle with weight problems, otherwise you simply really feel such as you’re in a darkish sea, I would like you to know that for those who too, can have the power to only get to your toes and go to the sunshine. Good issues will occur.”

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