Alexander Skarsgård took a style threat on Sunday on the Cannes Worldwide Movie Competition. The star has been on the town for the premiere of “Pillion,” during which he performs the chief of a biker gang.
For the movie’s screening, Skarsgård wore a T-shirt with a pair of leather-based pants and leather-based biker boots. The movie was celebrated by a standing ovation, throughout which Skarsgård hugged a person in a gimp masks and kissed Pedro Pascal.
Alexander Skarsgard at “The Phoenician Scheme” Premiere – The 78th Cannes Movie Competition at Palais des Festivals on Might 18, 2025 in Cannes, France.
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However later within the night for the premiere of “The Phoenician Scheme,” Skarsgård upped the glamor of fetish style by choosing a Saint Laurent tuxedo that includes a pair of thigh-high boots. The boots hailed from the model’s fall males’s 2025 present. The type includes a rounded toe and buckle particulars on the high.
Alexander Skarsgard at “The Phoenician Scheme” Premiere throughout the 78th Cannes Movie Competition at Palais des Festivals on Might 18, 2025 in Cannes, France.
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Skarsgård wore the boots with a double breasted jacket that includes sharp, padded shoulders and peak satin lapels from the identical Saint Laurent assortment. He additionally wore a necktie rather than a bow tie. The look was styled by Harry Lambert.
Saint Laurent’s fall 2025 assortment was impressed by the concept of: if Yves Saint Laurent met Robert Mapplethorpe, who was featured in a 1983 YSL males’s marketing campaign.
“There’s a barely harmful facet to Mapplethorpe that we will additionally discover in Yves Saint Laurent,” designer Anthony Vaccarello stated on the present.
Alexander Skarsgard, Harry Melling on the “Pillion” Photocall throughout the 78th Cannes Movie Competition held at Palais des Festivals on Might 18, 2025 in Cannes, France.
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The look from earlier within the day included a classic T-shirt from Jerks in London. That shirt featured a drawing of a leather-based boot about to step on a person’s face. Skarsgard additionally wore black leather-based trousers from Loewe in addition to the corporate’s Campo leather-based motorbike boot.
In October, Loewe launched a pre-spring 2025 marketing campaign shot by Juergen Teller that featured many stars, together with three males sporting leather-based.
Collectively, his two seems are a male model of “technique dressing.” The styling technique has been round for many years, however has elevated in recognition following Margot Robbie’s press tour for “Barbie” — although others like Zendaya had been doing it beforehand.