“Menswear is … a spindly glory hole that, if you dare jam your dick in, tickles for a second but mostly makes you feel broke and sad”
Back in February at the Spirit Awards, the director and tastemaker Benny Safdie pulled up on red carpet in a covetable piece of outerwear: an ultra-distressed Kapital boro spring jacket, season undetermined, which retails for around 2 Gs brand new. It’s one of those menswear grails that both heads and neophytes have saved deep in their screenshots folders, a flashy piece designed to wink at the broadest possible phylum of Grailed and Depop users. And yet Benny, I’m sorry to say, looked like a total bozo. The proportions were off; the outfit felt like an attempt to flex and little else. Safdie paired the jacket with vintage Ralph Lauren jeans that were way too skinny and an assortment of turquoise jewelry, which led some people to speculate that he was still in character as Dougie from The Curse, which is a generous read, but an incorrect one. (We are too nice to celebrities and too unkind to everyone else.) He looked like an aspiring apartment-tour TikToker who never looks at his check
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