Pedro Pascal, who turned 50 in April, has been acting professionally for his entire adult life. But it wasn’t until his Emmy-nominated turn in HBO’s The Last of Us, a sci-fi drama series based on a popular post-apocalyptic video game, that Pascal became one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood, garnering him new roles, brand deals, and a very vocal fanbase with a particular appetite for the star’s thighs.
Of course, the thigh frenzy hasn’t been entirely organic. Pascal’s “fashion daddy” persona is thanks in no small part to the stylist Julie Ragolia, who began dressing the actor in zany, meme-ready menswear not long after The Last of Us premiered in 2023. Ragolia—who primarily styles editorial shoots and runway shows, though her red-carpet clients have included Riz Ahmed and LaKeith Stanfield—was open about her and Pascal’s playful sartorial intentions: “I’m not a celebrity stylist. I just enjoy shaking up the internet for people,” she tweeted two years ago. While Pascal was promoting the third season of The Last of Us this spring, the duo came in hot: Pascal was the first A-lister to wear Saint Laurent’s kinky thigh-high boots—a fan favorite from designer Anthony Vaccarello’s fall 2025 collection.
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In an email to GQ on Friday, Ragolia confirmed that she and Pascal are no longer working together. “I’m a storyteller, so I told a story about how men of a certain age can still be seen as sexy. After Cannes was a good time to part ways,” she wrote.
Pedro Pascal, wearing Valentino styled by Julie Ragolia, at the 2023 Met Gala.
The actor wore the infamous Saint Laurent waders to the LA The Last of Us premiere on March 24.
Pascal’s conspicuous fashion garnered many fans, if also some detractors. “One of you called for my death because you didn’t like Pedro’s outfit,” Ragolia wrote on X on April 20, two days after Pascal wore Acne Studios shorts with knee-high boots to a Star Wars event in Japan. “I’m not even going to comment on individual taste or one’s personal preferences. I’m just going to let you sit with your obsession.”
In a subsequent post, Ragolia added, “Pedro is a grown adult with his own opinions on what he likes and what feels good to him. Stylists are not dictators. We are collaborators.”
Pascal, wearing a Tom Ford look styled by Jamie Mizrahi, in Berlin on Tuesday.
Since late June, Pascal has been working with a new stylist, Jamie Mizrahi, during his concurrent press tours for Ari Aster’s Eddington and Marvel’s latest flick, The Fantastic Four: First Steps. His collaboration with Mizrahi, who also dresses Jeremy Allen White, Jennifer Lawrence, Mikey Madison, and Adele, began casually enough, with Pascal wearing a double-denim look from Sarah Burton’s Givenchy to an Eddington screening, followed by a boxy Bottega Veneta set to a Fantastic Four event in Paris. In the last three days, he’s worn Haider Ackermann’s Tom Ford as many times, including two characteristically zaddyish red-carpet looks: a polka-dotted blouse with matching white trousers, and a dark, askew-collared jacquard suit with a sky-blue silk scarf, which recalled the custom blue-scarved suiting that Timothée Chalamet, a pal of Ackermann’s, wore to the Golden Globes in January.
In her “Line Sheet” newsletter on Monday, Puck’s Lauren Sherman wrote, “So far, on the Eddington tour, Mizrahi hasn’t totally deviated from Ragolia’s approach, but that may say more about Pascal’s own sense of style than anything else.” As of now, it is unclear if Mizrahi (who also dressed Jack Nicholson in an Armani suit and Yankees beret for SNL50 in February) and Pascal plan to keep working together in the future. In an email to GQ, a rep for Mizrahi declined to comment.
Pascal wore Tom Ford again to a Fantastic Four event in London on Thursday.
As Sherman also noted, Pascal isn’t the first A-list man to switch up his stylist in 2025. For his F1 press tour last month, Brad Pitt enlisted the help of Taylor McNeill, who made a splash dressing Chalamet, Kendrick Lamar, and Lorde over the past year. Nicholas Hoult, who’s currently promoting his turn as Lex Luthor in the new Superman, is now working with Jason Bolden; previously, he was a longtime client of Wendi and Nicole Ferreira. And back in March, Justin Bieber added Jenna Tyson to his styling roster after primarily partnering with Karla Welch for over a decade. The latter shift prefaced Bieber’s recent flurry of productivity: a seventh studio album, Swag, which the pop star surprise-dropped today, and a new clothing brand, Skylrk, which he (finally) surprise-dropped yesterday.
“In the lead-up to this year’s awards season, I expect we’re going to see several stars changing stylists as they embark on press tours and position themselves for Emmys, Oscars, and advertising campaigns,” Sherman predicted.
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