‘The Brooklinen of suits’: how Zohran Mamdani makes his $500 suits work

With the rise of e-commerce brands and the internet un-gatekeeping the nuances of menswear, average buyers can easily find an attainable but well-made option. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

You’re probably not going to see a Suitsupply suit on the Met Gala red carpet. You will, however, probably see it on a fresh college graduate, the guy shopping for his very first suit and, perhaps most prominently, New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

The city’s newly sworn-in mayor wore the brand’s everyman suits throughout his campaign, drawing commentary from the style desks of Bloomberg (calling him “style icon”), the New York Times (calling his style “millennial”) and GQ (calling it “Uniqlo uncle”). What they all agreed on: somehow, Mamdani pulled off wearing $500 suits on a national stage.