“I love the idea of people being turned on by the looks,” Marc Forne, Troye Sivan’s stylist, tells me. “That’s one of the main goals.”
Well, mission accomplished. As temperatures have flared all summer, Forne’s work on the pop prince’s Something to Give Each Other Tour—whose European leg came to a close last month in England, before starting back up in Sivan’s native Australia in November—similarly turned up the heat. From sheer Helmut Lang tank tops to exposed ERL boxers, from studded Rabanne jumpsuits to a translucent all-white fit by Prada, Sivan and crew gave audiences across the continent a steamy, stylish show to project their hot summer fantasies on.
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“I feel like it had to be sexy because of the dancing,” Forne says of his approach to the wardrobe. “Never tacky, but sexy.” For the stylist, that meant a lot of open zips, exposed underwear, sweat, and T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like “Choke.” “It’s quite basic, but at the same time, it’s very impactful,” Forne says. “When you see that dancer with the pants open and T-shirt that says ‘Choke,’ I mean, there’s a message.”
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There’s a lot more to the tour beyond titillation—Troye Sivan is, of course, one of pop’s most exciting young performers. But that unabashedly horny approach to fashion helped the “One of Your Girls” singer’s nightly performances stand out in a musical landscape where so many pop juggernauts are playing it safe. And beyond that, it served as a tasty first course before Sivan’s other big tour of the year—the hotly-anticipated Sweat Tour, opening in September, which he’s co-headlining with Charli XCX, the pop phenom riding high on brat summer.
