Hit FX series The Bear is about many things: complicated family dynamics, grief, toxic workplace environments, Chicago, vocational obsession and, of course, food. But for some people, it’s really just a show about clothes set in and around a Chicago restaurant. The show’s third season has already given plenty of fodder for style-obsessed viewers.
In the first episode, Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, wears a weathered Barbour Ogston jacket in olive during a flashback; later in the season, he wears a cotton deck jacket from the workwear-inspired Ralph Lauren sublabel RRL. JCrew released a capsule collection – a hat, T-shirt, sweatshirt and workwear jacket – emblazoned with the logo of the fictional business belonging to the Fak brothers from the show, played by Matty Matheson and Ricky Staffieri. Unlike Sex And The City , which had Carrie Bradshaw’s Fendi baguette bags, and Succession on HBO that had its “ludicrously capacious” Burberry bag, The Bear wasn’t conceived with any major ties to the fashion world.
“I didn’t expect this. Not at all,” said Courtney Wheeler, the costume designer on the show. JCrew released a capsule collection emblazoned with the logo of the fictional business belonging to the Fak brothers from the show.
Photo: Instagram/JCrew “Our show isn’t outwardly about fashion, like Sex And The City or Emily In Paris . It’s what we think the world that these characters inhabit would feel like. That people resp.