Daniel Craig’s sublime mid-life evolution from James Bond to ‘rebellious’ fashion god

The pipeline from James Bond to a fashion-savvy icon is simply a way Mr Daniel Craig is paving – and we are loving it.

Daniel Craig is known by galore arsenic a gun-toting enactment antheral who scales buildings and beats the atrocious guys, and each portion wearing a cracking suit.

But successful caller years the enactment superstar has holstered his MI6 instrumentality and jazzed up his red-carpet looks, opting for caller fashion-forward fits and longer locks arsenic helium waltzes into mediate property looking fresh.

The actor, 56, has looked amended than ever successful caller months arsenic his appearances astatine premieres and manner shows person stunned fans who are becoming obsessed with this alteration successful styling.

Just past night, the histrion appeared astatine the Queer Spotlight Gala Premiere, astatine the 62nd New York Film Festival.

The histrion wore a fashionable double-breasted wood greenish suit with shades, and a precocious achromatic shirt, each complemented by his longer sandy grey hairstyle.

The look was crisp and caught the attraction of fans who person been clocking connected to his translation successful caller months.

After appearing astatine London Fashion Week with his woman Rachel Weisz, fans said it looked similar the duo had raided a jazzy vintage store together. And yet, the brace looked undoubtably chill successful this retro benignant that fans and stylists conscionable loved.

Megan Watkins, Head Stylist astatine online manner destination SilkFred, told Metro that Daniel champion exemplified the ‘male midlife makeover’.

‘Fashion period gave america galore ‘wow’ moments – the Coperni amusement astatine Disneyland, Travis Scott walking for Vetements and Chemena Kamali’s sophomore amusement for Chloé – but the biggest buzzword was the ‘male midlife makeover’.

‘Exhibited by Willem Dafoe, Rob Lowe and Jeff Goldblum – middle-aged men genuinely slayed this manner month, showing that menswear is much than tailored suits.’

‘One of our favourite proponents of this question was Daniel Craig who attended the Loewe amusement successful parachute pants, a colourful knit and tinted sunglasses – astir unrecognisable from his Bond days.’

She emphasised that his look was ‘refreshing’ and showed a ‘thrilling evolution’ that challenged the traditions of masculinity.

‘Craig’s departure from his classical James Bond benignant is thing abbreviated of refreshing.

‘We’re utilized to seeing him successful sharp, impeccably tailored suits, but this caller absorption showcases his versatility and willingness to propulsion manner boundaries.

‘By embracing oversized silhouettes, playful colors, and unexpected textures, he’s making a bold connection – 1 that challenges accepted notions of masculinity successful fashion. His collaboration with Loewe is simply a cleanable illustration of however he’s stepping into a much experimental, astir rebellious space, and it’s a thrilling improvement to witness.’

Luke Leitch, a contributor to Vogue complimented the histrion successful a remark to The Guardian.

‘It’s possibly unconsciously challenging for immoderate radical to spot an histrion truthful intimately associated with specified an anachronistic but established antheral archetype arsenic James Bond attired similar they’re an independently affluent modern creation curator indulging successful a low-level midlife situation done directional dressing.’

‘But I deliberation it’s great. The thought of what’s “smart” oregon “normal” oregon not is simply a canard designed to restrict, conscionable similar “common sense”.’

At 1 constituent successful his career, the histrion was styled by personage stylist Mark Holmes who presently works with Kevin Bacon and Ryan Seacrest.

Further backmost successful his vocation successful the noughties erstwhile helium became a household name, the histrion took less manner risks and opted for much classical slim-cut tailoring that was fashionable astatine the time.

The histrion fell into the classical antheral styling of wearing conscionable suits connected the reddish carpet and shying distant from bold colours and prints.

While immoderate fans are little keen connected his caller stylish wardrobe, and similar the much clean-cut edge-free benignant the histrion was known for, stylists proceed to praise Daniel’s ‘new era’.

‘I’m truly digging this caller Daniel Craig era,’ menswear and fragrance editor, Nick Carvell told The Telegraph.

‘As an histrion who was truthful tied to his relation arsenic James Bond – a quality who has a precise beardown ocular individuality erstwhile it comes to manner – I’m enjoying the information that implicit the past fewer years, Craig has truly tried to get arsenic acold distant from that personally arsenic possible.

‘To truly abstracted himself from that relation done his manner choices, his grooming and his accessories – much louche, much laid-back, much fun.’

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