Sometimes, an outfit speaks for itself. Such is the case with Justin Bieber's April 17 masterpiece: two pairs of Balenciaga sweatpants stacked atop each other over $2,500 Louis Vuitton slippers. Oh, and he's rocking his wife's phone case.
I have written exhaustively about otherwise ordinary outfits worn by otherwise extraordinary people.
I have written about Justin Bieber, who has worn these exact Balenciaga sweatpants before.
I have even written about A$AP Rocky, who only just recently quadruple-layered his underwear.
But I have never quite been struck by an outfit like I'm struck by Bieber's outfit. Not because it's good. Or bad. Or both. Or either.
It's not just that he's wearing big sweats. We've seen that before. Many such cases.
It's that he's walking ever-so casually, unbothered, just having gotten himself some lunch in Los Angeles with a friend. And, yet, he's also wearing two gargantuan pairs of sweatpants sloppily pooled atop huge bear paw-shaped slippers. Tremendous. Just like his pants. Both of them.
There's just such an incredibly heroic disconnect between his outfit and his attitude. And even between the top and bottom halves of the outfit. If this isn't sprezzatura, what is?
I mean, what else can I add to this picture? Commentary is irrelevant: Justin Bieber is wearing pants on pants.
And, like, how? How does this happen? And why? For what purpose? What do two pairs of $1,000-ish Balenciaga sweatpants achieve that one alone does not?
Scientists may never know. Even Bieber probably doesn't.
And yet there but, for the grace of some sweatpants-wearing god, goes he.
