Can one pair of sneakers truly do it all? If you’re John Turturro, the answer is unabashedly yes. Over the past few months, the beloved character actor has hopped on the approach shoe wave, proving that his rugged kicks from the Italian mountaineering company Scarpa have nearly as much range as he does.
Since June, the 69-year-old Severance star has worn a pair of yellow-accented Mescalito Planets everywhere from the Knicks’ championship-clinching game in San Antonio to a World Cup match between France and Senegal to several stops of the press tour for his latest film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (for which he’s already garnering plenty of Oscar buzz). Not bad for climbing shoes that were designed, as Scarpa’s website puts it, for “technical hikes into remote alpine objectives.”
Most recently, Turturro broke out his trusty Scarpas for a couple of appearances at the Toronto International Film Festival. At The Only Living Pickpocket’s TIFF premiere, he sported the techy shoes with a luxurious look from Zegna (the same label he famously walked the runway for last year): a tailored mock-neck jacket, silk-cashmere sweater, black jeans, and leather-trimmed sunglasses. It’s the sort of dressy ensemble he could’ve easily finished off with a pair of smart black boots from the same label, but the unexpected pairing made the whole thing just sing.
