At last night’s global premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps in Los Angeles, the film’s star Pedro Pascal wore a white dinner jacket designed by Tom Ford’s Haider Ackermann. Its lapel was punctuated with a fresh, lipstick-red carnation.
On the premiere’s blue carpet, the actor cheekily told Extra, “We added a little carnation that hopefully the context of which will be understood.” Pascal’s stylist, Jamie Mizrahi, later shared several stills on Instagram from 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which opens with Harrison Ford’s titular hero wearing a white dinner jacket—dotted with a red carnation—during a brawl at a Shanghai nightclub.
Ackermann also shared a close-up photo of Pascal’s Easter-egg boutonniere on his own Instagram, which the designer captioned, “Truly honored for these moments with Mr. Pedro Pascal in Tom Ford.”
Though Disney has yet to announce or confirm a sixth Indiana Jones installment—which would presumably be the first without Ford in the fedora—fans have already theorized that Pascal could star as the next Indy in the inevitable reboot. It doesn’t hurt that Pascal recently evoked Ford’s memorable 1982 pose at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Whether or not “the context” of Pascal’s carnation has anything to do with his future casting prospects, the suit he wore to The Fantastic Four’s LA premiere did mark the (fantastic) fourth time he’s worn Tom Ford over the past month.
Three of those instances took place over a three-day run in the early weeks of the Fantastic Four press tour: On July 8, Pascal wore a romantic polka-dotted blouse and matching cream-hued trousers to a carpeted event in Berlin; the next day, he rolled up to a photocall in the same city in an olive-green suede jacket and a black leather tie. On July 10, he looked positively Chalamet-esque in a dotted jacquard suit and jaunty blue scarf on another carpet in London. And then, on Monday evening, there was the white suit jacket, which he layered over a scoop-neck tank top and accessorized with a dotted silk neckscarf. Each look showcased Ackermann’s sultry, structured tailoring—the marquee signature of his debut collection for Tom Ford.
Of course, there’s another conspiracy theory to be gleaned from Pascal’s repeated Tom Ford ensembles: Could they be a sign the Last of Us star is the next face of the house? In the modern fashion ecosystem, a celebrity repeatedly wearing a certain designer—particularly at high-visibility events like red-carpet premieres or award shows—often indicates they’re about to be announced as an official brand ambassador. In a recent example, Jeremy Allen White starred in a Louis Vuitton campaign a month after he attended the 2025 Met Gala as a guest of the French luxury giant. Previously, Jacob Elordi sported custom Bottega Veneta suits and leather bags for months before the Italian label announced they’d hired him as an ambassador, while Kendrick Lamar composed a soundtrack for a Chanel runway show in the lead-up to his appointment as a new face of the house.
To be sure, Pascal has worn plenty of other big-name designers during his promotional duties for Fantastic Four, as well as the smaller-budget Ari Aster film Eddington, which hit theaters last week. Mizrahi, Pascal’s stylist, has outfitted him in Bottega Veneta three times—a close second to the four Tom Ford looks—in addition to clothes from Givenchy, Celine, Saint Laurent, Maison Margiela, and The Row.
Pascal recently hired Mizrahi after years of working with the editorial stylist Julie Ragolia, who bolstered the actor’s “fashion daddy” persona by dressing him in showy, meme-ready statement pieces. In an email to GQ earlier this month, Ragolia confirmed that she and Pascal are no longer working together. “I’m a storyteller, so I told a story about how men of a certain age can still be seen as sexy. After Cannes was a good time to part ways,” she wrote.
