Brad Pitt's skirt and all the rest Break or confirmation of a long evolution of style?

Yesterday, at the Berlin premiere of the film Bullet Train, Brad Pitt stunned everyone a bit by showing up in a deconstructed jacket and a linen shirt, both crumpled and deconstructed, and most importantly with a skirt paired with a pair of Stylmartin biker boots. There is still a lack of details about what brand made the skirt, but even without knowing the exact designer, Twitter and Instagram users still went crazy. This red carpet look is quite memorable and is just the culmination of a series of other looks Pitt has sported during the press tour for his latest film that has ranged from a vaguely oversized suit paired with the basic model of adidas Gazelle to a look consisting of a pink jumpsuit and ivory slip-on, to another peach suit paired with a serafino shirt. All of the suits worn by Pitt during the press tour are the work of Haans Nicholas Mott, a designer who works only on a made-to-order basis and with referred clients-all of the suits are created by hand, including the buttons that are hand-molded by the designer's father, and have no labels of any kind.  In any case, however, the outfit was not only a subtle call-back to the legendary Rolling Stone photo shoot in which the actor wore an array of midi dresses but represented the temporary culmination of a stylistic evolution that began, in the 1980s, with classic All-American kid outfits made of tank tops, bandanas, leather jackets, and vests then exploded into a bonanza of artfully overlooked looks that have accompanied audiences from Thelma & Louise onward. 

Brad Pitt is an embodiment of authenticity. An authenticity that is not banal adherence to tradition but, on the contrary, a kind of practicality so omnivorous that it accommodates remarkably progressive points of view. In 2004, speaking to Vogue about Troy's costumes, Picts 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». However, it cannot be said that Pitt's outfits have ever been genderfluid, quite the contrary, but perhaps in the way half of Twitter went berserk at the sight of the skirt and biker boot combo, with the tattoos on his legs exposed, one can read the statement that exposing the male body and stopping wearing pants could be the true way of modern menswear.