Even if he’d never played Bond, we still get the sense that Pierce Brosnan is the type of man who was born to wear a suit. On Monday night, at the King’s Trust Carol Concert—an annual, star-studded charity event held at the iconic St. Paul’s Cathedral in Knightsbridge, London—the perpetual Mr. 007 looked suave as usual in a deep blue monochromatic suit which he offset with a lighter blue plaid tie and a silky black-and-white polka-dot scarf from Haider Ackermann’s Tom Ford. The latter—a curlicued memento from Brosnan’s red-carpet look at British GQ’s Men of the Year bash last month—was a flourish that offered something of a drive-by lesson in pattern mixing, an often harrowing style challenge.
Pierce Brosnan, in Tom Ford, at British GQ’s Men Of The Year party on November 18.
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On Monday night, Brosnan repurposed his scarf for a holiday event in London.
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Generally speaking, Brosnan has attempted many bold microexperiments within the suiting genre as of late. In recent memory, he’s worn a fuschia suit befitting a Monaco hotelier (complimentary) to the London premiere of Black Adam and a sharp yet relatively sporty Ralph Lauren Purple double-breasted number (complete with a ticket pocket) to attend Wimbledon last year. Even on his ostensibly casual days, he’s deployed a variety of slick airport outfits that US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy could only dream of seeing in the LaGuardia Shake Shack line.
The idea of emulating Brosnan’s secret suiting sauce may feel intimidating at first, but much of his strategy has to do with taking stock of all of the haberdasher’s tools and tricks at one’s disposal. A strategic pocket square here, a pearly waistcoat with a silver chain there. And Brosnan isn’t the only leading man pulling off the silky tie-adjacent scarf (not to be confused with the ribbon tie), either. At the Golden Globes earlier this year, Timothée Chalamet debuted Ackermann’s Tom Ford menswear with his sparkly, slim-fitting suit and haphazardly side-swept scarf; several months later, Pedro Pascal followed his lead. On Chalamet, with his vertiginous ’do and wide stance, the accessory proved very Bob Dylan; on Pascal, the scarf looked flirty. But on Brosnan, with his ageless smolder, the accessory looked perfectly dashing.