Mr Porter’s The Journal captures Jon Hamm in Los Angeles with Chantal Anderson behind the camera and Benedict Browne on styling. The resulting images show how a man’s presence, in both a physical and symbolic sense, determines what clothes are able to express.
Hamm moves from a dark green and burgundy regimental-striped silk shirt to a knee-length khaki trench over striped shorts, and the shift in mood never unsettles his composure. The clothes change their tone, yet his underlying charge holds steady.
Jon Hamm for Mr Porter’s The Journal
The companion interview, written by Finlay Renwick, covers the same territory in words. On surviving the Mad Men years, Hamm is clear: “A lot of it is a moment in time that won’t happen again, or it might happen again and you’ll get lucky and lightning might strike twice.”
On what separates a leading man from the rest of the cast, he is equally plain: “It’s ego, it’s confidence, there are a million different words for it, but if you don’t have it, the audience might not follow you.” The chess table portraits settle that claim in a single image, Hamm in the striped silk shirt leaning back from the board, with the air of someone who already knows the outcome.
Kit Harington sat for his own Mr Porter session with the same composure, trading the armor of Westeros for a wardrobe that fits the man beyond it.
