Brad Pitt wears a skirt on the red carpet. Will he help normalize the garment among men?

For the Berlin preview of

, the film in which Brad Pitt can be seen playing a rather jinxed hit man, the Oklahoma actor showed up Tuesday in a linen uniform that braved the heat wave that The German capital has also passed.

He was dressed in a blazer, half-unbuttoned shirt and boots, all by Haans designer Nicholas Mott, in a piece that overshadowed the event and made headlines.

His garment was a skirt.

And according to him, he actually took her to mitigate the almost 40 degrees that it was well into the afternoon.

"I recommend it to men in England, it sure helps them stay cool," he joked days later during the London premiere, to a Sky News reporter.

The skirt has also not been able to escape the valuations on Twitter.

There were those who appealed to the lack of taste ("They should whip the one who convinced Brad Pitt to wear a skirt") and many pointed to Hollywood for approaching speeches that do not correspond to him ("He tries too much to emulate young stars like Harry Styles ”).

“But let's see, are we crazy?

If you are a cis hetero person, is it no longer allowed to wear a skirt?

The editor of

magazine Luis Venegas, who says this, mentions the case of Billy Porter: “When he does it, no one questions him because, of course, he is a

and therefore you have the right.

I think that with wanting to vindicate some codes, the hallmark of the group, the fundamental thing is being lost, which is to maintain freedom for all”.

Billy Porter in a skirt at the Oscars.

Venegas makes another point: “It is curious, because when something like Brad Pitt happens, on the one hand, the conservative part appears that thinks: 'But what is

and on the other,

tell you: 'But what is he appropriating what is ours?'

One thing or another.

That a Hollywood actor has put on a skirt?

Ok, so what?

The fashion journalist Marta Represa, a contributor to

,

or

.

Although she thinks that the uniform is not only due to the high temperatures.

“There may be an element of coolness in there, but I doubt it would have been a suit or a tuxedo to begin with and at the last moment I was like, 'Wow, it's so hot, I better wear a skirt!'

I do not think so.

If you see the

, it's very calculated."

"What I wonder is if we have regressed since the seventies."

The journalist explains: “I can think of a lot of heterosexual guys who already did this.

Does anyone remember David Bowie?

Then we have Kurt Cobain or David Beckham, people who are super

, you don't even have to search too hard.

Besides, Brad Pitt has always explored his masculinity and with more daring

than the skirt of the other day.

Dam refers to the earrings and tight dresses, one of them sequined, with which Mark Seliger photographed the actor for

magazine in 1999, as a promotion for the movie

.

That is why he appeared in the images with a shaved head.

"They are iconic photos and you quickly associate them with his figure, so I don't understand why there's such a stir now," she concludes.

To the style editor of the American magazine

, Alex Badia, is not so much shocked by the general reaction as the fact that specialized publications have overlooked the actor's strategy.

According to him, what Pitt is doing in the successive presentations of the film is a rarely seen fashion circuit, with a lesson for when the heat is on, like a wedding in the middle of July: he has shown how to use linen in different types of suit, including the suit-skirt.

“Brad Pitt is one of the many in menswear that is redefining the norms of the red carpet and the classic suit, because it is a piece that has lost interest.

I'm sick of seeing people substituting blazers for jackets or resorting to t-shirts instead of shirts”, he acknowledges.

Badia, as he assures,

, taking advantage of the codes of the collective for their own benefit.

Moreover, he considers that his clothing can normalize many things.

NBA player Russell Westbrook wearing a skirt during New York Fashion Week in September 2021. Gilbert Carrasquillo (GC Images)

The question here is whether the wardrobe of a rich man in Hollywood, and on a red carpet, can really have any impact on the clothing of citizens on the street.

“Are we going to see businessmen wearing skirts anytime soon?

I do not think so.

Now, are we going to see new generations with a very different point of view about what it means to be masculine?

Absolutely.

And, what's more, let's imagine any of the actors who play Marvel superheroes with a skirt, maybe it wouldn't work as much because he would look more forced.

On the other hand, Brad Pitt can, his style covers such a wide range and he has such a good track record in fashion, editorially speaking, that he can go strong and open new fronts ”.

Badia is serious: “If we have already seen an NBA player (Russell Westbrook) in a Thom Browne dress,

and that the NBA is the pinnacle of American masculinity, anything can change.

It won't be a quick or gigantic change, but it will be an important one."

For Luis Venegas, this report would have been much more revealing with the voices of people who do not work or are linked to the fashion industry, profiles that have never witnessed a parade and that possibly, perhaps, are more shocked to see a famous with skirt.

He proposes to those of

, the soccer talk show.

They would like to?

“I don't know, the more conservative people are supposed to like this less, but there are also conservatives who say a lot: 'Hey, let each one do what they want as long as it doesn't bother anyone.'

That basically is a bit reasonable, or at least that's how I see it.

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