Why Shia LaBeouf Is Unleashing His Inner Suit God

As everybody knows, if you cut open the brain of any man between the ages of 23 and 40, you will find tens of thousands of paparazzi photos of Shia LaBeouf. I exaggerate, but for the menswear literate, and even the menswear curious, LaBeouf’s street style has become legendary: a template for the man who loves fashion, and maybe even self-expression, but doesn’t subscribe to the Big European Label Lifestyle. Here is a man who’s usually wearing jeans or shorts and a T-shirt or sweatshirt, but the proportions are pristine, the fabrics look ludicrously soft, and the feet are often clad in Uggs. He has inspired the Instagram account @shiasoutfits, which is updated with more tender diligence than an influencer’s fitspo journey, and the Twitter obsession #ShiaFitWatch, whose length and fervor approach a Victorian romance. Kanye West once stole all of his clothing. There’s something kind of, well, sludgy about LaBeouf’s look, with its repetition of denim, terry cloth, and canvas, but it never seems like he doesn’t care. This isn’t Balenciaga nonchalance, but a down-in-the-trenches, post-Helmut Lang use of workwear as the highest expression of industriousness—and perhaps even his inner attitudes. His id is his stylist.

But when it came time to put on a suit over the past few years, LaBeouf largely left his exalted and highly developed sense of personal style on the street. Promoting American Honey in 2016, or Borg/McEnroe in 2017, he wore navy suits and once, a tasteful white tie, fitted in the dutiful, normal way that still made sense during and right after the dutiful, normal Obama administration. Maybe something floral or dotted would poke out from underneath, but on the carpet, he was all business—almost to the point of corporate. A mercurial man who was playing an analog movie star game (one that he’d come of age playing, in films like Transformers and Indiana Jones, however reluctantly).

Until—spoiler alert—now. LaBeouf is currently promoting Honey Boy, an autobiographical film he wrote and stars in, and suddenly, his own wardrobe seems to have merged with the standards required of the red carpet appearance. Sure, “he looks great” in by-the-book tailoring, allowed his stylists, Wendi and Nicole Ferreira, who have worked with LaBeouf since the halcyon days of 2007, when he voiced a teen penguin with professional surfing dreams in Surf’s Up. But in Nicole’s words, “We did not think that classic suiting was right for Shia in this moment.”

Shia Lebeouf at the BFI London Film Festival, October 03, 2019.Jamy / Barcroft Media / Getty Images

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