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Britain’s most persistent blokes have developed a taste for fine Italian luxury: The 1975 are Zegna boys now.

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In the band’s two decades of existence, its members have run through countless leather jackets, pairs of black skinny jeans, and various ill-filling garments of indie-sleaze proportions. “If we’re going for the garish rock star who’s bought into his own self-constructed kind of mythology, then that’s kind of the outfit,” the band’s frontman Matty Healy told Vogue of his fashion sense back in 2016.

But in recent months, as the band’s stateside profile has magnified in tandem with Healy’s brief public romance with pop megastar Taylor Swift, The 1975 has started dressing like, well, highly visible rock stars. This past weekend, all four lads wore threads courtesy of the Italian luxury label Zenga, a leading purveyor of the “stealth wealth” flavor of richly understated clothing, to perform at Finsbury Park in London. Healy (who also wore Zegna to the 2023 Brit Awards) sported a pale green cotton suit with a linen shirt, guitarist Adam Hann a black wool kit, and bassist Ross MacDonald an acorn-hued cashmere-and-cotton polo and pleated pants. A Zegna spokesperson tells GQ that the brand—hot off a jaunty collab with cult SoCal knitwear label The Elder Statesman—has been working with the band as of late, even outfitting them all in tuxedos to perform on Saturday Night Live in April. (Which, incidentally, puts them in good company with other famous Zegna ambassadors such as Mads Mikkelsen, Andrew Garfield, and Succession’s Kieran Culkin.)