Proper round this time final yr, with the dregs of summer season circling the drain, David Beckham made one remaining, memorable push to get away the linen. In basic Beckham style, that push took the type of an impeccable go well with accented by a pair of rose-tinted shades from DB Eyewear, the footballer’s personal sun shades line. (The model synergy, to paraphrase Yoda, is robust with this one).
Beckham isn’t any stranger to the precise, generally freaky intricacies of suiting up throughout the summer season. However eagle-eyed appreciators of his fashion had been fast to ID this specific two-piece as an ecru-hued quantity from Percival, the British model with a surplus of equally A-list devotees stateside. Beckham’s flaxy go well with places him within the firm of Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, and Michael B. Jordan, a roster of Percival followers we would pay good cash to see within the subsequent timeline-collapsing MCU blockbuster.
Beckham is much from Percival’s solely superstar booster—however in relation to the model’s assortment of linen suiting, he is really a bit of late to the sport. GQ named this actual go well with top-of-the-line in its class lengthy earlier than the Becks cosign, and it is not exhausting to see why. Nobody does mid-priced, laissez-faire tailoring fairly like Chris Gove‘s London-based label, and nothing says “easy” fairly like David Beckham strolling via the desert in a monochromatic, dusty-toned get-up.
At a hair above the $500 mark, Percival’s chilled-out linen go well with imbues the silhouette with a cosmopolitan twist simply as indebted to Italian sprezzatura as it’s straight-laced British sartorialism—a candy spot, it seems, that is precisely proper for the dwindling days of a New York summer season. Days very similar to this one, when the afternoon solar refracts off of the skyscrapers and even the hardos ditch their jackets, loosen their ties, and determine to take their lunches en plein air, thanks very a lot.
To do the go well with justice, make like them and toss on a rumpled striped shirt and loafers, or observe Becks’ lead with a plain white T-shirt and your personal tinted specs. A yr after David Beckham reminded us of its virtues, Percival’s linen go well with is nonetheless probably the most trendy cause to hope for a really balmy fall.
This story was initially revealed on British GQ with the title ‘Even David Beckham cannot resist Percival’s linen go well with’.
