All the Details on Kieran Culkin’s Oscars Look
For the 2025 Oscars, Culkin — nominated for best supporting actor for A Real Pain — is wearing a custom tuxedo by Zegna, consisting of a shawl collar jacket in a deep green, paired with a black tuxedo shirt, black bow tie and black tuxedo trousers. “Kieran can be a colorful guy, which sometimes can be tough with men’s suiting,” notes star stylist Chloe Hartstein, who has been working with Culkin for nearly a year. “We like approaching it from a monochromatic standpoint, because it also results in Kieran looking cool and easy and effortless. I watched him give his speech at the SAG Awards [wearing Dior Men], and I thought, He looks comfortable, he looks like himself.”
Adorning the jacket’s lapel is a jabot-style brooch custom-designed by Kwiat and Fred Leighton, crafted of three gemstones — a pear-shaped Colombian emerald, a cushion-cut natural purple sapphire, and a square-cut peridot — set in platinum. “For Kieran, his whole world is his family; they’re the center of his universe,” Hartstein explains. “So we took the birthstones from his wife [Jazz Charton] and their two kids, and we had them set in a beautiful jabot pin. They’re meant to look like floating stones on his lapel. Kieran’s reality is his everyday life with his wife and kids, so we just wanted to be thoughtful and have that symbol of reality for him amid this incredible moment.”
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“It’s a classic design that’s really meant to highlight the gemstones,” Rebecca Selva, chief creative officer of Kwiat and Fred Leighton, tells THR. “We wanted to keep it very pure and elegant, but there’s also an Art Deco, 1920s inspiration. It’s the centennial of the Art Deco movement, and this form of brooch was very popular and chic in the 1920s, and it’s once again having a moment. We loved creating this for Kieran to wear tonight, something stylish and speaks to the essence of who he is and to the occasion.”
Hartstein is finishing Culkin’s look with Omega’s $20,000 De Ville Trésor timepiece with a burgundy dial — the actor has worn the watch brand throughout the 2025 awards season — and black velvet loafers by John Lobb.
Culkin has enjoyed a thoroughly successful awards season for his work in A Real Pain, winning a Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, Independent Spirit Award and a BAFTA Award, among others. Harstein says their partnership throughout the season has only been a pleasure, with his Oscars 2025 look planned in advance as “the cherry on top,” she says.
“We’re on the same page in a lot of ways,” Hartstein adds. “We take our jobs seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously, and that’s key in these experiences. Kieran is exactly who you see when you see him on a carpet or giving a speech. He’s consistently that person, and it’s such a pleasure to work with someone who’s both a wonderful collaborator and tethered to reality in a beautiful way.”
Easing into a collaboration wasn’t an option when Hartstein began working with Culkin in 2024: Their first major project together was May’s Met Gala.
“That’s a big event to start working with someone and to launch yourself into a new relationship with a client,” Hartstein tells THR. “But it ended up being a good first exercise for us, seeing where we could push things and how far we could take an idea. It felt like we really clicked right away.”
For that event Culkin wore a colorful suit by Colm Dillane, founder and designer of Brooklyn-based label KidSuper. Hartstein followed up that evening by focusing on coordinating looks for Culkin’s press tour for A Real Pain — which ultimately led to this year’s awards season and his Oscars 2025 nomination for best supporting actor. “The language we have figured out is to create a perfect mix of timeless and elegant leading-man menswear, which I really love,” she says. “We’re also mixing in subtle details, little things to make Kieran feel like himself in those moments.”
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