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The celebrity Australian men most want to dress like has a scalp smoother than Madonna’s forehead, stands at 172 centimetres tall and turned 63 last month.
Following the success of his SBS cooking series Searching For Italy and viral TikTok videos, Stanley Tucci now rivals Harry Styles, The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and the cast of Succession as a style influencer.
Stanley Tucci’s commitment to blue and white is guiding men’s summer wardrobes.
“When the show started streaming we would have at least three guys in a week coming in to our stores asking for denim shirts ‘like the ones Tucci wears,’” says Andrew Byrne, creative director of Australian tailors The Cloakroom, who have stores in Melbourne, Brisbane, Tokyo and Montreal.
“Then it became about the off-white chinos. The way Tucci is dressing in a palette of blues and whites appeals to men. It’s a look they know they can pull off but still need help getting right.”
Help is necessary because Tucci breaks long-held styling rules for short kings, a term for the petite and proud coined by US comedian Jaboukie Young-White in 2018.
Double-breasted jackets were once deemed too bulky for those closer to the earth than the stars, while belts supposedly thwarted attempts at creating uninterrupted silhouettes. But someone clearly forgot to tell Tucci.
“The proportions have to be properly executed,” Byrne says. “With Tucci the pants are cut slightly higher, so they can be belted, and a knit can occasionally be tucked in.”
Stanley Tucci’s relaxed, logo-free looks is a natural successor tot he style championed in the television series ‘Succession’.Credit: Getty
“Central to it all is a simple philosophy of less is more – the result being a pared back elegance.”
Menswear stylist Ken Thompson also highlights Tucci’s preference for Italian-cut trousers and suits that emphasise the waist and lengthen the appearance of legs.
“Sticking to plain, worsted fabrics enhances the illusion of leanness and height, with a slim tie anchoring the ensemble,” Thompson says. “I also follow his dictum that the size of your spectacles should increase in direct relation to the recession of your hairline.”
Tucci has skirted on the edges of fashion for decades, modelling Levi’s in a 1986 advertisement and starring opposite Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada in 2006. His upgrade to fashion’s frontlines began in 2019 when Searching For Italy started filming. Four years later, the enduring appeal of Tucci’s classic clothing demonstrates the value of investment pieces.
“Through his travel show he has shown us how much mileage can be made from just two shirts; the classic denim and crisp white shirt,” says MJ Bale founder Matt Jensen.
“Tucci is proof that elegance is timeless, and by that I mean ageless. He calls himself old fashioned, but he’s actually got a broad range of style that keeps him relevant.”
It also gives men a guidebook for looking polished in a world where casual clothing has been pushed to the forefront by athleisure wear and pandemic lockdowns.
“I mean, everybody’s dressed like a nine-year-old,” Tucci told travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler last year. “And you think, but you’re not nine years old! You’re a person. Put a shirt on, wear a pair of shoes. Why do you have to wear sweats?”
The Tucci approach to dressing is also pushing the stealth wealth trend forward. On Succession, the billionaire characters wore cashmere caps and vests without logos to communicate luxury to those in the know.
“This is different and more casual,” Byrne says, “You’re not signalling that you’ve closed the deal of a lifetime. It communicates an understanding of yourself rather than worrying about what others think. It also goes well with an apron.”
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