The Fashion of Porco Rosso

Porco Rosso (1992) is a nostalgic and comic character-driven film following Porco Rosso, the Red Pig. Porco is a bounty hunter with a kind heart—a character most aptly compared to Harrison Ford’s Han Solo—and the film follows his attempt to live an independent life in an increasingly partisan post-war world.

Importantly, I think Porco dresses extremely well (and I think Twitter’s most famous menswear writer would agree). Here are four screenshots:

Porco Rosso wearing a tan flight suit with a white scarf

Porco Rosso wearing off-white trousers, a tan trench coat with its collar popped, and a beige hat

Porco Rosso wearing a white shirt tucked into near-white trousers and sporting a red tie, a look almost reminiscent of 1960s NASA

Porco Rosso wearing a cream three-piece suit with matching hat

One thing that stands out to me about Porco Rosso’s fashion is that his looks have a consistent aesthetic despite spanning the full spectrum of formality from workwear to as formal as one can be in the Mediterranean summer. In an increasingly consumerist and abundant world, the simplicity of Porco Rosso’s earth-toned wardrobe stands out to me.

I would recommend watching this film if you haven’t.

Since my last post here (which was far too long ago, my sincerest apologies), my work at Rowan has morphed substantially, and I’ve started writing a lot more for the company’s communication channels. Here are some of the technologies I’ve gotten to work on and write about:

I built a 3D molecule builder for our computational chemistry web platform and subsequently added some pretty cool features to it.
I led the development of our platform’s organization-focused capabilities.
I wrote a long post looking at the development and state of neural network potentials, a new technology that’s accelerating molecular simulation.

Hope you’re all well! If you’ve recently seen any movies with fashionable characters in them, I’d love to hear from you.