What is a baseball cap if not free ad space on your forehead? (And sun protection, I suppose.) Hats are basically a billboard to broadcast our personal tastes, but for celebrities, they’re an endorsement.
Some celebrities opt to keep their hats relatively free of branded content. The New York Yankees logo is pretty par for the course among celebrities, with Kendall Jenner, Bad Bunny, and Rihanna all rocking it at some point. But others prefer to use their headwear to offer a glimpse into their lives—the interests and tastes they may not otherwise share.
A proud collector of novelty baseball caps, Jennifer Lawrence regularly uses her hats to share her interests, both highbrow and populist. Her current favorite is a black cap with “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1” embroidered in red, but she’s also quite fond of a navy Shania Twain hat with yellow text, and a pink cap that shouts out Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love.
Lawrence isn’t the only novelty cap affocionado. For the thespians among us, they serve as a great stage door accessory. Following a performance of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing in March, Kaia Gerber paid homage to Cole Escola in a black cap that read “A New Play by Cole Escola.” George Clooney, who is currently in a run of Good Night, and Good Luck, signed playbills at the stage door wearing a white Bronx Zoo cap. (I feel like he’s a Dinousar Safari guy. Goerge, if you’re reading this, can you please confirm?)
The New York City Ballet has proven itself another hot commodity in the hat game, with Timothée Chalamet, Dakota Johnson, and Greta Lee all rocking the company’s black and white logo cap. Johnson’s sartorial choice harkens back to her starring role in Suspiria, a Luca Guadagnino film about an American who joins a coven-run dance company in Berlin. Chalamet, who paired his with an NFL jacket, is a longtime proponent of arts education and artist housing. Talk about wearing your values.
With summer approaching and plenty of celebrity examples to pull from, consider incorporating a novelty baseball cap into your warm weather wardrobe.
