When Daniel Craig concluded his 15-year stint as James Bond in 2021, he set off on a sartorial journey none of us could have anticipated. In the four years since he hung up 007’s sleek, bespoke Tom Ford suits for the last time, the English actor has dabbled in extreme slouchiness, middle-management-core, and dressing like an eccentric rich art collector, even recruiting his wife, actor Rachel Weisz, to coordinate in ultra-colorful knits befitting a veteran Burner couple for Loewe’s spring 2025 runway show. (He explored a melange of these sensibilities in a much-discussed campaign for the brand last year.) But now it seems Craig has taken on a new aesthetic archetype: that of a guy who was once internet famous for his anonymous black-and-white Tumblr page, and is now a creatine fiend, but remains obsessed with Lou Reed.
For an appearance on Andy Cohen’s Sirius XM radio show in New York City this week, Craig wore a pair of deliciously patinated red Dr. Martens lace-up boots, which he styled with vintage, straight leg Levi’s—on its own, a very 2013-esque, craft-beer-imbibing combination. On top, a blue flannel shirt and a bicep-augmenting bomber jacket, both from JW Anderson (the solo brand from designer Jonathan Anderson, who costumed Craig in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer). But it’s not just the indie-sleaze formula of a flannel, light-wash denim, and combat boots that’s transporting us back to the glory days of blogging—it’s also the conspicuously placed Patti Smith graphic tee he wore underneath, not to mention the twee newsboy cap he threw on as he exited the New York recording studio later that day.
Daniel Craig visits SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live in New York City on November 3.
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