Is Daniel Craig a Fashion Girlie Now?
James Bond has a new look
This past Sunday, I attended a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s new film Queer at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York. Star Daniel Craig appeared for a post-film Q&A and suffice it to say, Craig is mesmerizing in person — I’ve known this since I witnessed him as Iago in Sam Gold’s 2016 reimagining of Othello (opposite David Oyelowo) at New York Theatre Workshop. Presented in the round, at several moments during the production Craig stood close enough to me that his spit hit me in the during an intense soliloquy. Obviously, I didn’t mind.
This time though, I’m not praying Craig will spit on me again. I’m more focused on his boots. He’s wearing a pair of light brown, fuzzy boots and it’s literally all I can think about during the Q&A. Which is saying a lot, because one of the internet white boys of the moment, Drew Starkey, was sitting right beside him. Thanks to my new favorite Instagram account What’s Daniel Wearing? (replacing my previous fave, Ready Timmy Wear), I discovered the boots in question are the Loewe Campo Chelsea boot in brushed suede.
In addition to the boots, Craig’s general look is giving vacationing novelist on vacation in Europe. Fitting, since he’s portraying a version of William S. Burroughs, adapted from his unfinished from the 1950s about a drug-fueled gay romance in Mexico and South America. Craig has on khaki pants that are oversized and lightly wrinkled, an unzipped jacket that reveals a tucked white button down, a pair of blue tinted sunglasses, a pink bracelet on his arm, an unreleased Omega watch, and his recently longer, neck-length hair.
Normally I’d associate the former James Bond with immaculately tailored suits. Well, maybe not immaculate according to menswear expert Derek Guy during Craig’s 2022 press tour for Glass Onion: “Daniel Craig's penchant for slim, short, tight tailoring causes his right sleeve to constantly get caught on his bicep during media events, and thus show too much shirt cuff. Wish he would go for a more classic cut.” That changed this year, when he landed in Loewe’s Fall Winter 2024 men’s campaign. He’d grown his hair out and he was wearing oversized, brightly colored sweaters. And baggy jeans. And cargo pants. And boots.
My man was looking RELAXED. Unbothered. Like he didn’t give a fuck if his martini was shaken or stirred. In fact, now he takes his martinis dirty with vodka and a dozen oysters for the table. Generally, Craig’s wife Rachel Weisz always seemed like the cooler one and he was the arm candy. On a red carpet once, when asked what the two actors discuss at home, she said, “I didn’t marry him to talk.” But now Craig seemed like he might be just as cool as his wife who loved taking weird and/or lesbian roles. Because now, Craig was also taking weird and gay roles. After all, Benoit Blanc is gay. And married to Hugh Grant, as we learned in Glass Onion. And in Queer I saw Craig suck Omar Apollo’s (big… I must say) dick and repeatedly make out with Drew Starkey and suck his dick and top him.
This has been a big year for celebs switching up their looks. It makes sense that Craig would switch up his. Jonathan Anderson, creative director of Loewe, was also the costume designer for Queer having previously collaborated with Guadagnino on Challengers. Most of Craig’s new looks have been Loewe pieces. They’ve been bold, they’ve been swaggy, they’ve been casual and comfortable. He’s also been working with stylist Taylor McNeill, who works with Kendrick Lamar, who’s also known for a similar style. Is this Craig relaxing into life in his late 50s or merely allowing himself to be Anderson’s latest model do jour? During the Q&A, Craig said he wanted to work with Guadagnino 20 years ago when he first met him and only now got the chance to play in Guadagnino’s surreal playground. That would’ve been right around the time his starring role in Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake propelled him into his 15+ years role as 007. Maybe now that that’s over, he’s finally able to get weird.