Oscar Isaac might be playing the eponymous doctor in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein remake, but while arriving at the Venice Film Festival 2025, the actor looked more hot English professor than mad scientist.
Straight off the boat in Venice, the actor—who recently began working with A$AP Rocky’s longtime stylist, Matthew Henson—donned a three-button blazer, white T-shirt, vintage-wash blue jeans, and penny loafers, all from Celine. We can only Isaac (or at least Henson) must be an avid GQ reader, because it was a style move we’ve been trying to get guys into more often. His outfit was complemented by a perfectly groomed salt-and-pepper beard reminiscent of the one Isaac sported in Dune, which had more people thirsting than the hydration-parched citizens of the desert planet, Arrakis.
While Venice is still plenty balmy this time of the year, Isaac’s blazer-and-jeans combo is still an ideal summer-to-fall formula that packs maximum reward for minimal effort. The pivot from summer to fall dressing is particularly tricky, with too-warm days bleeding into chilly nights, but dressing in layers means you can avoid overheating or being too chilled simply by putting on or removing a jacket.
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The day after he first docked in Venice, Isaac nailed another transitional weather outfit: pleated trousers, Jacques Marie Mage shades, a Western-style button down in a lightweight fabric. He rolled the shirt’s sleeves to the elbow, leaving its collar unbuttoned at the top for the occasional breeze on the décolletage lest the Italian sun shines too hard during the photocall. Isaac’s costar Jacob Elordi, who plays Frankenstein’s gangly monster in the film, followed a similar cue, wearing a nearly identical silhouette—though his outfit was in monochromatic white and from Bottega Veneta—on the Venice carpet.
Later on Saturday, Isaac once again went full Celine for the official Frankenstein red carpet, pairing a white tuxedo jacket, black trousers, and a clavicle-bearing polka-dot shirt. We can’t help but wonder: Is an Isaac-led campaign for the Michael Rider-helmed French luxury fashion house imminent? In the meantime, Frankenstein doesn’t start streaming on Netflix until November 7, so we’ll see how the actor’s style changes as we move toward the colder end of the weather spectrum.
But before then, Isaac booked it back to the States for a screening of Frankenstein at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday, donning an outfit that was less Italian-stallion and more Colorado-chiller: a paint-splattered Taiga Takahashi denim jacket, loose black trousers, Flower Mountain “Yamano 3” sneakers, and a graphic tee with the phrase “Gulf of Mexico” printed proudly on the front, a rebuke of President Trump’s asinine attempts to rename the body of water. The actor is proving that great style isn’t just trans-seasonal—it’s transnational.
