Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt stepped out in Berlin, Germany for a red carpet screening of his new film Bullet Train, in an unexpected ensemble. The 58-year-old star rocked a chocolate brown blazer, a rose-colored button-down and in a surprising twist, a coordinating brown knee-length skirt by New York-based designer Haans Nicholas Mott. He topped off the look with combat boots, layered gold medallions, and tortoise shell sunglasses.
The internet quickly erupted with chatter about the skirt choice, with eagle-eye fans immediately noticing his fine-line leg tattoos (an abstract rhinoceros head on one shin and a human skull on the other calf).
Hopping on a celebrity trend, Pitt follows the likes of Oscar Isaac in Thom Browne, Harry Styles, and Billy Porter in his sartorial choice. He may have been a few years off, but he once predicted skirts would have a moment in menswear back in 2004 in an interview with British Vogue. While promoting his film Troy, based on Homer’s Greek epic the “Iliad,” he said, “Men will be wearing skirts by next summer. That’s my prediction and proclamation. The film answers to both genders. We were going for realism and Greeks wore skirts all the time then.”
With temperatures reaching shocking highs across Europe and parts of the U.S, a breathable skirt was a wise, practical decision. In fact, he was asked about his outfit choice on the carpet by an Associated Press reporter, to which he replied, “The breeze. The breeze.”
The Academy Award-winning actor posed alongside his Bullet Train cast mates Joey King, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Taylor Johnson, and Brian Tyree Henry. The film follows five different assassins aboard a fast moving “bullet train,” traveling from Toyko to Morioka. The hired guns eventually uncover a strange truth about their missions – while they may not be as interwoven as they originally thought, their assignments have something in common. Directed by David Leitch, Bullet Train hits theaters on August 5.
