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A V-neck top is seductive—at least it is on the broad shoulders of actor Michael Douglas. This week in Paris, the Academy Award winner wore a gray V-neck sweater with a white collared shirt and khaki pants along with sneakers. A simple look, but packed with meaning. A whopping 30 years ago in 1992, Douglas starred as Detective Nick Curran in Basic Instinct, a pheromone-dripping film starring the intoxicating Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell who lures in Curran.
Call it serendipity, but last week, I wrote a piece talking about the allure of Curran’s sweater. There’s a scene in Basic Instinct in which Curran wears this garment on his naked barrel chest to a pulsating club in search of Tramell. In a clothed and yet still somehow NSFW scene, he lets himself be seduced by Tramell right on the dance floor, who then lifts—or fans out her hands and “spreads”—the V-neck off of Curran’s body. Who knew such a knit could be so erotic? A few scenes later, Curran is buttoned up and at his 9-to-5 cop job, wearing a collared shirt with his sweater. Buttoned up or not, who cares? He still makes it sexy.
Fast forward 30 years, Douglas can still rock a V-neck. I can’t take my eyes off of him. The boldness and brashness of a detested, debated silhouette still looks good on the man. He might as well still be Curran in the club.
