Picture this: James Bond and Edward Cullen walk into an office. Bond (or, OK, fine, Daniel Craig) is an uptight middle manager; Edward (still just Edward to me) is his disheveled, ne’er-do-well underling. Antics ensue. Laughs are had. Friends are made along the way. Who wouldn’t binge this show on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, seltzer in hand, pizza rolls browning in the oven? Paramount Plus, my direct deposit is open.
That’s the 22-episode season that immediately flashed before my eyes the moment I bore witness to these remarkable images of Craig and Robert Pattinson (right, that’s his name) arriving at designer Jonathan Anderson’s hotly-anticipated Dior Men debut at Paris Men’s Fashion Week earlier today.
On the runway, Anderson presented a critically adored clash of Regency-era flourishes (flouncy silk cravats and drapey velvet dinner jackets) with the bookish post-prep staples (striped button-downs, washed jeans, woven sandals) he’s made his signature at his namesake label JW Anderson and previous employer Loewe. Pattinson, Craig, and many more of the starry names that came to pay their respects—Sabrina Carpenter, Lakeith Stanfield, Josh O’Connor, A$AP Rocky and Rihanna among them—leaned into the latter, resulting in looks that unfortunately forced me to admit that the “corpcore” trend that so many fashion writers and TikTokkers have lazily been pushing for months now might actually be real and good.
Of course, Craig and Pattinson approached this particular assignment in wildly different ways. Craig—despite his recent Anderson-powered forays into looser, freakier, capital-F fashion—kept things relatively classic and locked-in, adopting the GQ office uniform of a tweedy blazer and jeans as his own. He paired that combo with a crisp striped dress shirt, a repp stripe tie, a gold Omega watch (I’ll leave it to my pal Cam Wolf to figure out if it’s another unreleased tease), and a pair of daddish gray New Balances. Fellas in your 40s and 50s, you could do a lot worse than following in this man’s footsteps everyday at work.
