Get to Know the Designer Behind Brad Pitt's 'Bullet Train' Press Tour Looks - Haans Nicholas Mott!

Brad Pitt made headlines this week for wearing a skirt to the Berlin premiere of his upcoming action flick, Bullet Train.

Just Jared has learned that the designer behind the daring look was created by New York-based Haans Nicholas Mott, who actually created all of Brad‘s fashionable looks for the entire Bullet Train press tour.

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Haans‘ fashion house is a referral-only brand and the clothing is hand stitched with focus on rigorous processes over product, with outcomes determined by the individuals inhabiting the garments.

The designer says that “the intimacy of the stitching method allows for shifting and shaping through time, so that the pieces evolve and settle as they learn and acclimate to the body.”

All of the hand stitching and personal detailing, which includes buttons individually hand formed by Haans‘ father, identify the pieces. To add to the mysteriousness of each piece, Haans purposefully doesn’t add physical labels.

Haans‘s background in architecture also informs his clothing designs. He told the NYT, “Architecture gives you a set of problem-solving skills. Once I started sewing, I got very into cutting patterns, developing stitches and constructing things.”
“A ‘building’ is a visually and conceptually and physically occupy-able space – generally in some way shared or ‘public’,” he also told Le Paradox. “The word building should never be understood as a noun; even when referring to an inhabitable object in a landscape, ‘a building’ is always an action, a transporter — something through which one perceives and moves and pauses and imagines and remembers and feels and, thus, inhabits. The mechanism through which we develop rituals and articulate relics… Clothing is personally occupy-able, and moves through inhabited spaces. Action within action: Clothing is action. Style is mantra. Space is temple. Inhabitation is power.”

Haans also collaborates with Anastasia Khodkina on a ready-to-wear collection entitled Anecho, available at a few special retailers in London, Melbourne and Tokyo.

If you missed it, check out the trailer for Bullet Train, which hits theaters nationwide on August 5th and also stars Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Sandra Bullock, Bad Bunny, Logan Lerman, Andrew Koji, Michael Shannon and Masi Oka. Be sure to stay tuned to Just Jared for more of Haans designs for Brad!

Check out the gallery of Brad Pitt wearing Haans Nicholas Mott’s designs on the Bullet Train press tour so far!