is a 35-year-old man with an estranged sense of style and little knowledge of fashion. And yet the comedian will this afternoon make his debut at , having received a golden ticket to ’s spring/summer 2025 presentation for . “Do you have a list of who might be going?,” Gadd asks me a couple of days before the event.
“Because I don’t know where I’ll be sitting, though I’ll be placed next to I should think.” There are few endorsements of someone’s rising star quite like getting a seat at Anderson’s table – the designer’s seasonal guest lists are barometers for who and what is popular, plucking big names from the centre of viral internet cycles and placing them on branded step and repeats. The protagonists of , , and whatever film Luca Guadagnino happens to have released within a six-month time period, have all been burnished on his front rows.
The guy from show is always at show. But Gadd, of course, knew that. “Oh, I was certainly aware of Loewe,” he says.
“I knew it was a big, classy brand. And so many amazing people have been in its adverts, which proves I’m on the right track, and that the 10 years I spent performing at the was all worth it. I’m well up for the ride and seeing how it all works.
And it’ll be nice to go all dressed-up and looking smart because I’ve always been known as a fashion icon. Well..
. no, I haven’t. That was a joke.
” Gadd likens his own relationship with clothing to that of a long-lost relative, perhaps severed.
