Pete Davidson Is Still (Mostly) Dressing Like Pete Davidson
StyleThe comedian may be down a couple—or a couple hundred—tattoos, but he’ll still pair a fringed leather jacket with neon socks.By Eileen CartterJanuary 31, 2025NBC/Getty ImagesSave this storySaveSave this storySave“I’m trying to be an adult,” Pete Davidson told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show this week. He was discussing an exhausting process he’s undertaken in the last couple of years: lasering off his extensive tattoo collection.In his days of accumulating ink, Davidson reckons he amassed “probably, like, 200” tattoos. (“Yeah, I was a sad boy,” he explained.) His mish-mashed tats made for a distinctive look, one that matched his self-admittedly juvenile personal style. “I dress how I dressed when I was, like, 10,” the comedian told GQ back in 2018. “I’m like, ‘What would be cool? Purple pants.’”Pete Davidson arrives on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on January 30. NBC/Getty ImagesNow, he reckons he’ll keep “maybe, like, two or three” of his tattoos, but he’s mostly “trying to clean slate it.”For his Tonight Show appearance, Davidson—who is back on the press circuit after a quiet year to promote his new animated movie Dog Man—had a mellowed-out look to match. Well, relatively speaking. With the assist from his longtime stylist Britt Theodora, he jazzed up the otherwise casual outfit—blue Levi’s jeans and simple Vans lace-ups—with a slightly kooky Western-style fringed leather jacket from the label Found, a camo-print “Save the Trees” cap, and a pair of neon green socks from his own brand, Doublesoul. (Another thing Pete Davidson’s been up to in the last several years? Upping his own marketing cache.)Davidson in New York City on January 31. Raymond HallThe next day, Davidson was spotted in Manhattan wearing another subdued-goofy hybrid of an ensemble: a gray Dave’s New York hoodie, dark jeans, and rubbed-toed gray Ugg slippers (still his preferred shoe, it seems). He threw on a Dog Man trucker cap and slung a yellow-collared tan waxed cotton jacket by Fendi over his shoulder.“If you Google any picture of me from ages 20 to 27, it’s purple shirts, fedoras, all these chains, and fucking dumb Rolexes. It doesn’t look cool at all,” Davidson told W magazine in December. “But I’m very fortunate that I’m 31 now. Looking back. I’m lucky that I finally woke up.”
“I’m trying to be an adult,” Pete Davidson told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show this week. He was discussing an exhausting process he’s undertaken in the last couple of years: lasering off his extensive tattoo collection.
In his days of accumulating ink, Davidson reckons he amassed “probably, like, 200” tattoos. (“Yeah, I was a sad boy,” he explained.) His mish-mashed tats made for a distinctive look, one that matched his self-admittedly juvenile personal style. “I dress how I dressed when I was, like, 10,” the comedian told GQ back in 2018. “I’m like, ‘What would be cool? Purple pants.’”
Now, he reckons he’ll keep “maybe, like, two or three” of his tattoos, but he’s mostly “trying to clean slate it.”
For his Tonight Show appearance, Davidson—who is back on the press circuit after a quiet year to promote his new animated movie Dog Man—had a mellowed-out look to match. Well, relatively speaking. With the assist from his longtime stylist Britt Theodora, he jazzed up the otherwise casual outfit—blue Levi’s jeans and simple Vans lace-ups—with a slightly kooky Western-style fringed leather jacket from the label Found, a camo-print “Save the Trees” cap, and a pair of neon green socks from his own brand, Doublesoul. (Another thing Pete Davidson’s been up to in the last several years? Upping his own marketing cache.)
The next day, Davidson was spotted in Manhattan wearing another subdued-goofy hybrid of an ensemble: a gray Dave’s New York hoodie, dark jeans, and rubbed-toed gray Ugg slippers (still his preferred shoe, it seems). He threw on a Dog Man trucker cap and slung a yellow-collared tan waxed cotton jacket by Fendi over his shoulder.
“If you Google any picture of me from ages 20 to 27, it’s purple shirts, fedoras, all these chains, and fucking dumb Rolexes. It doesn’t look cool at all,” Davidson told W magazine in December. “But I’m very fortunate that I’m 31 now. Looking back. I’m lucky that I finally woke up.”