WHO KNEW that the most exciting addition to the Euphoria 3 cast would be from the costume department? In a moment of art imitating real life, in the trailer for the latest (and last?) instalment of the HBO series, Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacob’s seems to have borrowed heavily from the source material’s wardrobe, with scenes showing the character dripping head-to-toe Bottega Veneta.

Honestly, we feel you, Nate, given that Elordi has provided numerous instances of style inspiration during the half-decade gap year you and your fellow problematic graduates of East Highland High School took between filming.

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Nate, now several years out of high school and installed in his father’s construction business (played by the late Eric Dane), has traded in the anonymous suburbia of polos and denim for something a little more upscale. The most amusing part is how much Nate’s wardrobe is just pure cosplay at being a tradie. It may look like a flannel and some jeans – but that flannel shirt is made entirely from leather. And costs over $10k.

Nate seems to be doing quite well for himself, it seems.

Bottega Veneta

Check leather shirt, as seen on Kate Moss and Nate Jacobs.

The pieces come from Bottega Veneta’s spring 2023 collection, before Matthieu Blazy had departed for Chanel, that went viral when Kate Moss strode out on the runway wearing an outfit not too dissimilar to the one Nate is seen wearing in this scene. She had a white singlet on, though. True working class.

In another scene, our man Nate is spotted wearing a brown linen polo shirt that retails for $1550 while chopping up some steak for the family.

Bottega Veneta

Brown linen and cotton polo shirt, perfect for chopping meat in.

As we said, it’s been five years since the last season and the characters are now all adults with lives and careers. But head-to-toe Bottega is quite the leap. It also pushes a sartorial fourth wall, so to speak, with the divide between Elordi the actor and Elordi’s character thinning.

These looks, these pieces, also happen to be the sort of thing Elordi has been wearing off-screen for the past two years, since formalising his relationship with the Italian brand. Campaigns, premieres, the usual circuit.

Did the wardrobe department for the new season take stock on the best-dressed lists that Elordi was gracing and go, “Yep – that’s the look we want. BYO clothes, bruv”?

It looks like, but to be fair, we’re not complaining. Let’s see if they can squeeze him into the ballet flats on the job site too.


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