Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux became the internet’s favourite “detective” when a photo of him was taken at the Louvre Museum’s crown jewel heist last month.<\/p>\n
The photo captured what appeared to be a mysterious-looking detective alongside police officers on the day of the robbery.<\/p>\n
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Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux was captured walking past police officers at the Louvre in Paris after thieves carried out a robbery in October. (AP: Thibault Camus\/File)<\/p>\n
“I realised maybe four days after the photo was taken,” Pedro tells ABC News Breakfast, speaking late at night from Rambouillet in France.<\/p>\n
He says a friend messaged to ask if it was him, and told Pedro the photo had garnered 5 million views on TikTok<\/p>\n
Vintage pieces<\/p>\n
The vintage outfit that attracted eyes from around the world had people even speculating whether the photo was AI-generated.<\/p>\n
But in fact, the pieces were real and personal.<\/p>\n
“My fedora, the hat, was actually my grandma’s hat,” he says.<\/p>\n
“My jacket was mine.”<\/p>\n
The Saint Laurent waistcoat was his dad’s, and the tie was his grandfather’s.<\/p>\n
Old soul<\/p>\n
Pedro says his 1940s-inspired outfit is influenced by certain heroes from decades past.<\/p>\n
“There’s, of course, d’Hercule Poirot, who is very chic,” he says, citing one of author Agatha Christie’s most famous characters.<\/p>\n
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Pedro says Hercule Poirot, a character seen here in the popular British television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot, is one of his inspirations. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n
He also mentions Jean Moulin, a prominent figure in the French resistance movement during World War II.<\/p>\n
“He has the hat,” Pedro says.<\/p>\n
“When I wear the hat, you’ve got a degree [of angle] to put the hat.<\/p>\n
“You just see the part of the face, not all the face, it’s kind of funny.”<\/p>\n
He says many movie characters also inspire him.<\/p>\n
“Like maybe James Bond, he’s very chic.”<\/p>\n
Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr No, released in 1962. (Supplied: IMDb)<\/p>\n
While he did not specify which Bond he is most inspired by, he makes sure to mention his fondness for 20th-century history.<\/p>\n
The French teen says he hopes more teenagers will be inspired by the positive reaction to his outfit to take on vintage influences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux became the internet’s favourite “detective” when a photo of him was taken at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,161810,460,115009,134,159522,30108,158510,155140,12628],"class_list":{"0":"post-279231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-dhercule-poirot","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-detective","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-fedora-man","18":"tag-james-bond","19":"tag-jean-moulin","20":"tag-louvre-heist","21":"tag-teenager"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}