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Will we all walk barefoot soon?

2023-06-06T14:22:33.647Z

Highlights: Australian actor Jacob Elordi walked without shoes in Los Angeles in 2021. Two years later, social networks are ignited: on Instagram and TikTok, mockery and decryption follow one another. "Unsurprisingly, this image has made the internet jump, but will not raise eyebrows Australians," says Gladys Lai, in the columns of the local edition of the GQ. "At home, go and do... what you do at home," says Lai. "Go and do what you want."


DECRYPTION - It only took one fashionable actor walking without shoes in Los Angeles to announce the trend of pedestrian minimalism. Oh, really?


The photo is from 2021. And yet, strangely, it wasn't until April 2023 that it went viral. Let's try to describe it as best we can: it's a paparazzade featuring Australian actor Jacob Elordi (revealed by the HBO series Euphoria) returning, one imagines, from his favorite café in Los Angeles. He wears a leopard fleece jacket, a small Celine bag slung over his shoulder, faded Levi's jeans probably vintage and... No shoes. Two years later, therefore, social networks are ignited: on Instagram and TikTok, mockery and decryption follow one another.

The American media seized on the phenomenon, trying to understand why the young actor walked the asphalt barefoot. An attempt at an explanation is made: in Australia, Elordi's country of origin, the practice would be common. "Unsurprisingly, this image has made the internet jump, but will not raise eyebrows Australians, analyzes Gladys Lai, in the columns of the local edition of the GQ. At home, go and do...

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