Fashion goes in circles, and right now we’re still in the midst of a Y2K revival. Take, for example, Heartstopper star Kit Connor, whose style seems to have honed in on a golden, pre-Instagram age when cinemas were always packed and action-movie stars ruled the screen in their macho cool-guy fits.
This week, Connor headed to the Today Show to promote his Broadway debut opposite West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler in Romeo + Juliet. (Connor, of course, plays Romeo.) The actor spiked up his hair a little for the occasion, accessorizing with a pair of dark Jacques Marie Mage shades complete with gold racing stripes on the sides. So far, so noughties.
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For the rest of the fit, Connor (who has been working with Paul Mescal’s stylist, Felicity Kay) slipped on a chocolate-brown tank top from Ami Paris with matching dark trousers. Unlike the mega-baggy pants he wore a few days ago, these were center-creased and nicely tailored, and their hems sat neatly on top of his Jimmy Choo lace-ups. On top, he layered over a boxy blue Ami shirt that flowed open—giving off Miami-beach-lord vibes, but in Manhattan.
It’s perhaps a subtler way to do the whole Y2K thing without having a Guy Fieri shirt on hand. The key here is silhouette, because the classics work just as well in XL mode—and the whole baggy-oversized look isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. At the recent fall shows, Ami was in full boxy mode, Dries Van Noten dropped some very big trousers, and JW Anderson—a Kit Connor favorite—dropped some sloping mottled wool polo shirts.
It helps that the Heartstopper star is fully jacked, which lends itself to pulling off the whole big-action-movie-star look. Now, all he needs is a big pyrotechnical set piece and a very quotable catchphrase.
This story originally appeared on British GQ.
