We Want Adrien Brody's Massive Winter Coat. You Will Too.
A big coat is a powerful thing. Find the right one – the kind that envelops you in its comfy, warming embrace – and you’ll curse the day that summer arrives.
Adrien Brody gets it. Earlier this week, the actor turned up to a screening of his Oscar-touted film, The Brutalist, in a massive Ferragamo overcoat that should be hogging up most of the space on your moody weather mood board.
Oversized single-breasted coat
We’re fans of the rounded shoulder, outsized 1920s silhouette and extremely wide notched lapel. You could probably carry your weekly shop in those patch pockets, which is also a plus. We’re less excited by the £4,370 price tag, to be perfectly honest with you. But anyone who has stayed up until the early hours clicking on adverts for really big coats on Instagram knows that it’s a dangerous game.
If you opt for Brody’s Ferragamo number, then you obviously have our full support. But if you were looking for a more wallet-friendly option, then we’ve got you covered here.
The screening was hosted by Club Ciné, a London-based film club that regularly hosts screenings of upcoming movies. Brody arrived with the director of The Brutalist, Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux), to talk about the making of the movie, which tells the story of a Hungarian architect who flees postwar Europe to find a new life in America.
The low-budget, three-and-a-half hour film picked up three awards at the Golden Globes a few weeks ago. Critics think it stands a good chance of picking up best picture at the Academy Awards in March.
At the screening, Brody spoke to the crowd, which included the likes of Riz Ahmed and James Norton, about aspects of the film’s story that resonated with his family history – specifically the experiences of his mother, the photographer Sylvia Plachy, and his grandparents.
“She and my grandparents are Hungarian immigrants who were forced to flee Budapest in 1956 during the revolution and were refugees who fled under tremendous hardship,” he said. “They were refugees in Vienna for two years until they were able to come to the United States, where they immigrated to New York. And so much of this film is about the immigrant experience, and that's very personal to me, and an honour for me to pay tribute to their sacrifice and their resilience.”
You can read the full interview with Adrien Brody and Brady Corbet via the Club Ciné Substack here.
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