Look, they just don’t make movie memorabilia like they did in the '90s—back when the cast of Sleepy Hollow had their own custom leather jackets and Buffy backpacks were a dime a dozen. But man of the hour Glen Powell recently wore a custom embroidered Levi’s Twisters jacket while promoting the Lee Isaac Chung action thriller, which itself is a sequel to the 1996 original, and things might be changing. The jacket has the classic tornado logo, “Twisters” in the franchise's signature scrawled typeface and, if you squint, a few flying cows, cars, and trees in that final detail. Bad news for the rest of us, though: only one was made and it's for Glen Powell and Glen Powell only.
“Because the Twisters movie is based in Oklahoma, I wanted to lean into the western vibe,” Powell's stylist Warren Alfie Baker told GQ. “So I had a chat with Levi’s about working on an embroidered vintage trucker [jacket] for the movie and they were super into it. It had to have the iconic Twisters text with of course a tornado and we added some small details—I love the floating cow. It’s the only one that was made for Glen as a lil’ token piece for the movie.”
For Baker, the jacket was an homage to Hollywood's second golden age. “We were leaning into the iconic fashion of ‘90s actors so felt like it made sense to have a cool '90s vibe,” Baker says. “[The jacket] had a feeling of movie memorabilia you would want to collect when you were younger.”
For this whole Twisters promo tour, in fact, the Texas-born actor has been leaning heavily into the “blockbuster leading man” thing—all blue denim and brown boots with beefy heels, harking back to a time when guys like Bill Paxton would show up on the red carpet in jeans and a white tee. Baker tells GQ that, ahead of promo events, they created a mood board and really wanted to stay within that “Harrison Ford, [Kevin] Costner and Bill Paxton feel” with such classic items as “cowboy boots from Lucchese” and “vintage Levi’s bootcut and Wranglers.”
As for the custom Levi’s Twisters jacket? That was just the garnish on the movie star beefcake. “It was just about keeping it effortless and timeless with the menswear,” says Baker. Too bad it's just a one-off.
This story originally appeared on British GQ with the title ‘The making of Glen Powell’s very ‘90s custom Twisters jacket’