Finn Wolfhard is buzzing right now. He’s getting ready for his first-ever Met Gala, and tonight he’s in Thom Browne: the abstract outfitter of shrunken uniforms. It’s not a random pairing, either. He’s been wearing the brand for years – on press runs, on tour, just day to day – so this isn’t one of those one-night-only specials.
“I’ve loved their clothes for so many years now,” he says over Zoom. “They’ve been really generous with me in the past. I’ve worn a lot of their knitwear and a lot of their stuff just in my daily life, and also to promote films. They actually dressed me for my band’s first tour, so I already had a relationship with the label.”
So when the Met invite came through the door, the decision was easy: “I think they probably just saw that I was a fan of the clothes and, yeah, here we are.”
Matthew Priestley
For fashion’s biggest night, Wolfhard is stepping into deconstructed tailoring – a black high-twist wool suit, slick trousers, a utility skirt belt. The fit is still coming together as we speak. “It’s a really beautiful suit,” he says. “There’s patterns that are really interesting, that are super subtle. If you look at a photo of it, you don’t really pick it up until your eye kind of catches it.”
Even though Thom Browne is an American brand, it spiritually syncs up with Wolfhard’s taste: “vintage, comfortable, British”. There’s a mod influence in there, there’s thrifted trousers, there are bits of Japanese workwear (he’s a massive fan of Tokyo label Beams, FYI). “It’s kind of a mishmash of a bunch of things. I just love anything that’s sort of British-inspired.”
Matthew Priestley
Fashion, for Wolfhard, isn’t about locking into one lane. It shifts. “My relationship to it is always changing,” he says. “I’m always having new obsessions with different periods and different clothes. I see it as a way to express yourself, not something where you feel buttoned up or like you’re wearing something you don’t actually want to wear.”
