Hannibal Fashion Meta Pt. 1
Iām just gonna cover Hannibalās two hetero cosplays from S1 E1 ApĆ©ritif and some suit basics that are gonna be a reoccuring.
This outfit is bad. Yes, heās very pretty still but this is a bad look.
Hannibal knows how to wear a monochromatic outfit, he does it all the time. Right now he looks like a homophobic paper bag or like a republican thatās going to sell me a house in Arizona. He looks like heās wearing a bad version of what Franklyn is wearing in this episode, which was probably his inspiration for these two outfits.
Itās very pedestrian, very American, and really an outfit that I think anybody who has the money could slap this on and it would be fine. Looking regular is the antithesis to his normal style. He likes attention. If he didnāt, heād dress like this all the time. Iād avoid eye contact with him too, Will.
Thanks to the prop auction, I foumd out that the whole outfit is off the rack, which is unimaginable for Hannibal.
This is a suede Ralph Lauren sport coat running around $1300 USD. Itās nice. Pick stiching (the straight running stich) up the lapels are a nice detail and are usually done to show the garment was handmade. Standard Two-button. If Hannibal isnāt wearing a double breated jacket, his jacket is going to have two buttons. Thatās due to it being a feature of Italian suits which Hannibal loves to wear. This one probably has them because of the rack suits tend to have two since it fits nicer kn a wider range of bodies than three buttons would. You leave the last button undone for movement and you unbutton both when you sit down to not crease the fabric.
The reason this particular jacket looks bad when you rewatch the show is because weāre used to seeing Hannibal in bespoke suits that show off his figure and this is an off the rack jacket. Almost everything he wears is bespoke. He goes to a talior, picks the fabric, tells them what he wants and they make him a brand new suit that nobody else on earth owns.
The 100% cashmere v-neck sweater is also Ralph Lauren running him around $400 USD. Again, itās nice, but this outfit has purposefully bad color matching to make him look plain jane and nerdy.
The italian wool pants are Zenella running $350. Nice quality. Probably the only pants youāll see him wearing that has belt loops. Iāll venmo $20 to the first person who can show me a picture wearing a belt. (I promise). All of his pants are bespoke or tailored to fit his waist. Which you need if you wear 3 piece suits and you donāt want to mess up how your waistcoat is laying.
So weāre at $2000 for this one. He probably donated the whole ensamble to a thrift store because heās canonically eco-friendly and wouldnāt just throw it away but heās also canonically a bad bitch and wouldnāt be caught dead wearing this again.
NEXT
This outfit is actually pretty good, for anybody who isnāt Hannibal Lecter fashion icon. Afterall, he had breakfast with his crush and lives to ruin so he let his own fashion slip in a tad.
The jacket is bespoke and a glimps at what Hannibal actually wears in his day to day. We can tell that from the italian cut, the notched lapels that you can find on most of his jackets, and the cuffs.
These are surgeon cuffs, which Hannibal loves. Developed for on the go battlefield surgeons, these buttons woukd be undone, allowing them to roll up their sleeves to avoid getting them covered in blood. Back in 19th century London most people who could afford getting swanked out in bespoke suits were surgeons like Hannibal so they became a status symbol. (The Ralph Laurent jacket above also had surgeon cuffs.)
The buttons themselves and how they lay are also interesting. They look like horn buttons (cow or buffalo horn usually) which are probably authentic because he would never get a bespoke suit and get plastic buttons on them. The overlapping style of how they lay are called ākissing buttonsā which is very common for italian suits, done to show that they were hand stictched. Very cute.
Iām assuming that Hannibal had this made at his regular tailor so he already owned it. It takes a while to make a jacket from scratch. Itās a nice jacket and Iām not mad at it.
The merino wool sweater is John Smedley, a british brand for luxury knitwear, and costs $485. It looks almost exactly like his other one but this one is higher quality and fits better. The neckline is deep because itās supposed to be worn with a tie. Again, probably something he grabbed out of his own closet. Very lovely.
The pants are again, italian wool, Zenella. $350, just like before. Not that interesting if youāre normally in bespoke pants that are part of a matching set.
This outfit was like the last one, deliberately chosen to make him look plain and regular and nobody of consequence.
Hannibal never dresses like this again because this was him playing the part of a unassuming psychiatrist who didnāt want to be noticed. He wanted to sit and observe what the FBI does when they go after a serial killer without people looking at him. Not even Will paid very close attention to him.
Hannibal also just doesnāt do semi-formal. He doesnāt like dressing like this. Why would he dress like this when he can wear whatever he wants and heās not straight so heāll probably never walk into another Macyās again.
[ Part Two ]
