If we had told you that Justin Bieber was one of the best dressed celebrities in the world just 18 months ago, you probably would have been laughing. Indeed, things were going so badly in 2019 that we saw fit to place him on our list of the worst dressed of 2019, where he sat down with former homie Donald Trump and Brexit ringer Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Fast track through 2021 and Bieber did something of a turn-around style. Maybe it’s due to the standardization of the ample bandage spurred by the pandemic or maybe it’s because we feel a little more forgiving these days – we can’t get enough of Bieber’s fits anyway.
Not only does he have one of the best sneaker collections in the world, made up of designs by Nike and Travis Scott and ultra-rare Air Force Ones designed by Riccardo Tisci, but he has also perfected the bigger is better approach to clothing. , become a poster boy for baggy guys.
This week, he further strengthened his status as the best dressed man in pop music. Dinner in Los Angeles with producer Josh Gudwin, Grammy Award winner, the singer of “Holy” donned a down jacket from a rising brand that we are very passionate about. GQ.
The azure blue and sunflower-colored down and feather jacket is made by Los Angeles-based label ERL. The original idea of Eli Russell Linnetz, ERL recently appeared on our radar due to its sexy loungewear collections in which cropped tops, cropped shorts, tight ribbed long johns and fluffy OTT slippers sit alongside outerwear that beat the cold. In short: it is the ideal locking material.
And, of course, you might not be familiar with the three-year-old brand yet, but you would have certainly seen the work of its founder. The talented Linnetz directed Kanye West’s music videos for “Fade” and “Famous”, worked on Yeezy’s seasonal lines, advised Comme Des Garçons on its fragrance campaigns and even designed the stage for the “Enigma” tour. Lady Gaga 2019.
Besides Justin Bieber, ERL has found favor with other big names. Pioneer stores Ssense, Galeries Lafayette, Selfridges and Dover Street Market are resellers, while Nike quickly forged a sneaker collaboration with Linnetz after its first collection sold out in 2018.
Convinced? While you might not be confident enough in your body to wear one of the brand’s crop tops for the daily supermarket dashboard, we recommend swapping out your aged TNF Nuptse for Bieber’s puffer. before it sells out.
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