Alexander Skarsgård has had a deliciously deviant, impeccable, impishly styled press tour run for his BDSM rom com Pillion. Working with stylist Harry Lambert, the Swedish actor works hard to keep us all titillated, with a refreshed take on the oft-trotted out method dressing trend.
Appearing for a special screening of the movie in Berlin, Skarsgård looked pretty in purple, wearing a shimmering sleeveless Dior top. Taken from look one of Dior Men fall 2026, it recalled the aesthetics of women dressing opulently in 1920s Cafe Society (in fact, designer Jonathan Anderson said the opening look’s camisole top was inspired by a 1922 dress made by couturier Paul Poiret), with its grape-purple and silver embroidery, deep V-neck, and lilac insert. The actor paired the statement top with black suit trousers and square-toe black dress shoes.
Skarsgård posed on the red carpet with his co-star Harry Melling, who plays his timid sub in the film. Beside him, Melling opted for a classic all-black suit.
The look was, really, in the more pared back section of the actor’s fashion catalog. The Pillion press run has been something of a triumph for Alexander Skarsgård, one of Vogue’s best dressed people of 2025, and certified fashion freak, who loves to poke at gender norms and the spectrum of fetish-coded fashion. Where men’s fashion on the red carpet can skew drably classic and Don Draper-esque, Skarsgård regularly lets his freak flag fly. That’s meant dipping into Dario Vitale’s Versace, short-shorts, sexy graphic tees, a Ludovic de Saint Sernin leather halterneck, flip-flops.
Please, let the Pillion press tour live forever.
