Alexander Skarsgård Lets His Freak Flag Fly In Versace

If men’s fashion has a tendency to skew traditional, via Don Draper-esque quiet tailoring and sensible proportions (I’m also in the middle of a Mad Men rewatch), at least Alexander Skarsgård is here to inject a little Berghain-adjacent chaos into the mix. The actor, who is vying with Timothée Chalamet for the title of male most likely to make the internet scream with their eclectic approach to awards season, just appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers in a pair of pleated leather trousers by Versace. It’s just the latest chapter in Skarsgård’s ongoing flirtation with fetish-coded fashion, a method-dressing choice in line with his role in Pillion, dubbed a “kinky gay biker romcom”.

In recent months, the actor has made a series of unexpected red-carpet choices: Rockstud flip-flops at Sundance, a tiara on Saturday Night Live, and, of course, the Ludovic de Saint Sernin leather halterneck that threatened to break the internet. Last night’s look was actually much more restrained, at least by Skarsgård’s standards, with those leather trousers grounded by otherwise run-of-the-mill menswear.

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Skarsgård’s look is from Versace’s spring/summer 2026 collection – the only one from Dario Vitale’s short-lived tenure at the house, where this week it was confirmed that Pieter Mulier will be taking the helm from July. As the designer behind Alaïa’s sculpting, skin-baring silhouettes (and those ubiquitous in fashion mesh ballet flats), Mulier’s appointment heralds another vision for the house. Eyes peeled for an ab-flashing, caped leather moment from Skarsgård next.