Tuxedo Junction

Berluti has made suits for the French Olympic delegation. Derek Guy, aka Menswear Guy, sizes them up.

Also in this edition:

• John Galliano seems to be job hunting. Where will he land?

• Christian Louboutin and Pierre Yovanovitch have designed a Very Sexy Chair.

• Green Dream guest Camille Charrière takes on Kim Kardashian. You go, girl!

LVMH, the luxury conglomerate that owns Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany, Dom Pérignon, etcetera, etcetera—75 brands in all—has forked out €150 million to sponsor this summer’s Olympic and the Paralympic Games in Paris. Because of this, the corporation is blanketing the games with its products. You’ll find Moët & Chandon champagne at the refreshment stands, Chaumet-designed medals around winners’ necks, and—chicest of all—Berluti suits on the French delegation for the opening ceremony, which may, or may not, be on the river Seine. Security concerns might bump it to the Stade de France.

Berluti enlisted former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld—who I recently wrote about in Architectural Digest—to collaborate on the project, and released pictures of delegation members dressed in examples of the attire.

French Olympic delegation members dressed by Berluti, an LVMH brand.

I wrote about Berluti years ago for the New York Times, and, based on what I was told and saw, was made to understand that its tailoring was at Savile Row- or Naples-quality levels, and the leather shoes were among of the finest handcrafted footwear on the market today.

I didn’t get that vibe from this image. Never mind that the women lost their sleeves somewhere along the way. What is going on with the guy on the left? His jacket is buttoned miles above his navel. His shirt is peeking out below the jacket. His belt buckle is visible. And on his feet are sneakers.

Utterly confounded by what I saw, I decided to call Derek Guy, founder of Die, Workwear!, a blog about classic men’s style, to decipher it for me.

I discovered Derek on Twitter (X), where he writes wonderfully academic threads on menswear: what works, what doesn’t, and why. One of my favorites was a recent post where Derek discussed how British broadcaster Piers Morgan could learn a thing or ten from style icon Kermit the Frog.