Throughout the span of his career, previous bounce clad-adolescent Justin Bieber has significantly redesignd his style. Better known back in the noughties for his super thin pants, studded baseball covers and purple-shaded hoodies, Bieber is currently one of the most mind-blowing dressed artists in the world.
Indeed, the 27-year old artist has perfected a sized-up aesthetic that on paper shouldn’t work, but breezes billowingly through the zeitgeist. Taking style cues from Venice Beach skaters and Nineties hip hop frontmen such as the late Biggie Smalls, late last year Bieber paired an Isabel Marant fleece that came up one size too large with billowing Balençiaga bottoms, and before that he wore a boxy and oversized Drew House suit to the 2021 Met Gala.
This weekend Bieber served one of his best XXL fits to date when he was sighted in Los Angeles with wife Hailey, who was wearing a Bianca Saunders blazer. The “Monster” singer sported a gigantic, body-swamping black hoodie from Simple Gospel, the clothing line he runs alongside his friend Josh Mehl, with a pair of monstrous skater jeans from, you guessed it, Balençiaga.
The Kering-owned brand, which Bieber has fronted seasonal campaigns for since July 2021, is leading the bigger-is-better way of dressing. Knee-skimming flight jackets, massive trench coats, jeans of ginormous proportions and über-chunky sneakers were the order of the day in the brand’s Spring/Summer 2022 collection; and in July of last year creative director Demna Gvasalia relaunched its couture division after a 53-year long break and the first collection was brimming with baggy suits and colossal puffer coats.
