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When he’s not wearing a cutting-edge suit on a red carpet, or donning a leather jumpsuit as Elvis, or doing Rick Owens cosplay as Feyd-Rautha, Austin Butler generally keeps a pretty low fashion profile. The actor’s personal wardrobe tends to involve lots of Adidas track pants, retro-rugged outerwear, and baseball caps worn low over his eyes. When he’s off the clock, he’s off the clock—and he dresses for that part, too.
As per usual, Butler looked easygoing on two recent New York City date nights to see trending Broadway shows with his girlfriend, the model Kaia Gerber. On Wednesday, he and Gerber attended a preview of the upcoming play Job, which stars Succession actors Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. Photographed exiting the Hayes Theater after the performance, the actor wore a thin, boxy, and slightly cropped gray T-shirt with loose black slacks, bright white Nike Cortezes (the favorite sneaker of fellow low-key Hollywood “It” guy Jeremy Allen White), and a San Francisco Giants cap.
Gerber was also dressed simply in dark low-rise trousers, black pumps, and a navy graphic tee printed with the phrase “Come To My House I Have Great Books.” On that front, there’s likely truth in advertising—the model has hosted a virtual book club called Library Science since 2020. (The most recent title on their reading list? The Job script, written by playwright Max Wolf Friedlich.)
Butler’s outfit, though, was nearly identical to the one he wore last week when he and Gerber went to the opening night of Cole Escola’s play Oh, Mary!, which also just made its splashy transfer to Broadway. That evening at the Lyceum Theatre, he supplemented his incidental theatergoing uniform—same gray tee, (seemingly) same black pants, same Cortezes—with a black crewneck sweatshirt thrown over his shoulders and a nondescript black trucker hat. (Speaking of, how often do you see a blank trucker hat out in the wild? On Butler, it feels like a more dude-ish version of Kendall Roy’s $625 logo-free Loro Piana baseball cap.)
It’s possible that Butler, a Broadway vet himself (he acted opposite Denzel Washington in The Iceman Cometh in 2018), could be testing out Jeremy Allen White’s outfit-repeating philosophy to thwart paparazzi, however unsuccessfully. It is a common Hollywood tactic; some credit Broadway vet Daniel Radcliffe with the idea. But the Dune: Part Two star also generally prefers to go incognito.
“When I travel, I like to be comfortable,” Butler told me last year. “I often wear a hoodie and a hat, because then you feel hidden when you’re walking to the airport.”
