The punchy color of safety orange has long been reserved for the most adventurous of dressers. Frank Sinatra was a noted fan, and in recent years, we’ve seen the highly saturated shade show up on well-styled guys like Timothée Chalamet and Andrew Garfield. Donning such an eye-burning shade will always be an advanced-level style move—high risk and high reward. So it was a delight to see lovable lunatic Tim Robinson show up at the SXSW premiere of Friendship, his new movie with Paul Rudd, in a supremely stylish outfit built around some screaming orange outerwear.
Bright orange jacket aside, the beloved and wacky mind behind Netflix breakout I Think You Should Leave kept his look pretty straightforward. He paired a white Oxford shirt with perfect pleated pants in a fetching shade of rusty brown. A brown leather belt and burnished tassel loafers completed the outfit. But the star of the show was his vibrant Harrington jacket, a collaboration between streetwear behemoth Supreme and Toy Machine, the venerable skate company started by Ed Templeton. (Robinson himself is a longtime skater.) While SXSW isn’t exactly the dressiest of occasions, Robinson’s casual red-carpet jacket felt reminiscent of major style swerves past, like Frank Ocean’s Prada anorak at the Met Gala or Timmy’s designer workwear at the 2020 Oscars.
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It’s also worth noting the brown pants bonanza that occurred when Robinson posed with his co-star Paul Rudd and Friendship’s writer-director Andrew DeYoung. Taken together, the trio provide a neat snapshot of men’s pants in 2025. (Dying to know if this was coordinated on the Friendship group chat.) Robinson opted for a slouchy but not massive silhouette; Rudd chose a more tapered fit with a slightly lower rise in a butterscotch tone; and DeYoung’s greige, flat-front chinos had the roomiest cut of the bunch. Across the board, men’s trousers are cut looser and longer than they were just five years ago, but as these three guys prove, there are plenty of options to be had within the big pants category.
Getting dressed up is back in a big way, but that can mean many different things in this era of menswear. You can play it safe by going the Rudd route—a classic blazer and tie always delivers—or you can veer off the beaten path like Robinson and get delightfully weird with it. His bright orange jacket delivers a high-style touch while nodding to his personality, elevating an otherwise ordinary outfit into something sublime.
