It offers people the idea that they can create their own lives outside the existing blueprint for happiness offered by society,” Palahniuk included on the booklet that accompanied some DVD copies, further complicating the waters that surround interpretation of Fight Club. Fans and foes alike have mistakenly clouded Tyler’s beliefs as the film’s ultimate messaging, not considering the point that Edward Norton made in an interview with Yale that “it’s a critique of how Nietzsche becomes Hitler.”

Tyler Durden’s look comes from a place of muddled darkness. He doesn’t know what he stands for, but he knows that he’s mad. And you see this in his clothes. It’s not Italian sprezzatura with Durden, it is a random assortment of garish accessories that dare you to tell him he looks bad. Tyler Durden’s fashion has not endured because Tyler Durden has no fashion. But together, they are unstoppable. Tyler Durden and Marla Singer make the perfect, couple’s costume for two anarchy-driven lovers. Alternative Marla Singer ( “Wedding Dress”) Outfit Despite how much of a phenomenon Fight Club became in the six-million-DVDs-sold afterglow of its release, the film hasn’t really endured in pop culture. People still watch it, but it is hard to trace its cultural impact The ideas of the film seem alternately quaint and problematic today; while many filmmakers ape Fincher’s low-light style, they don’t copy these themes.

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Danielle Jennings provided a helpful breakdown at Love to Know that not only includes a brief guide to Tyler’s basic look but also links to where interested shoppers can find or design their own Durden-esque style. Go Big or Go Home In doing so, The Narrator strips Angel Face of the superficial qualities that society really values; leaving the character to question what is left.

There is an obvious answer. Tyler Durden does not dress particularly well—or, at least in an easily recreatable way. Even style writers that try to frame Durden as a fashion icon do so with plenty of hand-wringing. One writer noted that it is “ironic” that Durden was even considered a style icon and that his clothing “breaks all the rules.” Another calls his style “unrepeatable.” A third admits that the look “doesn’t fit the fashion.” Finishing touches include a Hawaiian-print shirt (Tyler Durden wears several different Hawaiian shirts so chef’s choice), a pair of dark grey work trousers, and optional prop cigarettes. Tyler Durden ( “Shaved Head”) Outfit As one of the biggest proponents of “Project Mayhem”, he is critical to the implementation of Durden’s anarchist plans. He also harbors a thinly veiled grudge against The Narrator after the latter almost ended his life during a Fight Club brawl. Actually, I only got an award at work for being swell one month, quit smoking cigarettes, and married the love of my life. But, you know--pretty much the same thing. I looked so cool doing these things! Even the film’s fashion designer didn’t think Durden looked particularly cool. Costume designer Michael Kaplan understood that Durden was not built to be a fashion icon, but rather superficially transgressive, a lame guy’s fantasy of what a cool guy would look like. Kaplan has given a number of interviews over the years, and never has he expressed admiration for Durden’s look, but rather he admires the character’s attitude.Mostly C’s: Marla Singer costume– You are a realist. Sure, you wouldn’t mind a nice life with someone who accepts you for who you are but you see things for how they are and you don’t let it change you. Looking for more Fight Club costume inspiration? Alternatively, apply some fake scars and wounds to create a Fight Club costume from later in the movie, after The Narrator’s self-imposed physical altercation with his boss. 4. Robert ‘Bob’ Paulson ( Meat Loaf) Costume

Singer, like The Narrator, struggles with the societal norms imposed upon her by a mainstream culture she does not feel a part of. Unlike The Narrator, whose internal struggle manifests as a split personality, Marla’s struggle is embodied in her conflicted fashion choices. Other notable Marla Singer costume accessories include a sleeveless crop tank top, ankle boots, and dark sunglasses. This messaging was lost on the many men who superficially saw Fight Club as an empowering call to regain the flawed and often violent “values” that permeate traditional masculinity in the hunter/gatherer sense, validating their mistaken interpretation with the film’s “purer” stance against materialism. In the end, “Tyler Durden” becomes the dehumanizing autocrat that he spent the first half of his appearance waxing poetic against.

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Finally, add a name tag with the painfully modest ‘Hello my name is Bob’: In death, we all have a name. 5. Angel Face ( Jared Leto) Costume Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden, once heralded as a symbol of alternative cool at the dawn of the 21st century, feels like the harbinger of darkness for the American male more than an enduring fashion icon today. In 1999, everyone wanted to be Tyler Durden. Today, beyond wearing a few fashion-friendly Aloha shirts, it’s hard to aspire to be Tyler Durden.

Tyler Durden’s (played by Brad Pitt) look is an icon of late 90s and early 2000s rebellious fashion. Durden is one of the most recognizable anarchist characters in popular culture and his outfit is distinctly anti-establishment. Robert ‘Bob’ Paulson (played by the late, great Meat Loaf) is one of the most beloved characters from Fight Club. Avoid slim-fitting shirts as these simply don’t fit with The Narrator’s disheveled and generally unkempt outfit. Next, Norton wears a traditional width tie. Affectionately dubbed a ‘surfboard tie’ this formalwear has rather fallen out of fashion in recent years. Anything over 3.5 inches and up to 4.5″ is considered ‘traditional’. Not sure which Fight Club outfit is the best fit for you? Take our 100% scientific personality quiz and find out:

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We may remember Brad Pitt looking unbearably cool in the film. But, that is more thanks to Pitt’s unrelenting magnetism than anything he’s wearing. When women’s magazines write about how hot he is in Fight Club they write about him shirtless, not in one of his terrible outfits. Mostly A’s: Tyler Durden costume– You are the embodiment of anarchy chaos. The shiny trinkets of conventional life hold little value for you. Instead, you are searching for something truly meaningful in this otherwise banal life. Tyler Durden is certainly not responsible for these movements, but he is an early product of the same kind of thinking that spawned them. Writing about Fight Club is often accompanied by a discussion of Susan Faludi’s book, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man that argued that America was in the throws of a crisis of masculinity. In the book, also released in 1999, she lamented the loss of American masculinity. She offered the idea that masculinity was, “something to drape over the body, not draw from inner resources; that it is not personal, not societal; that manhood is displayed, not demonstrated.” Like The Narrator, Marla finds herself addicted to support groups, using them as a cathartic release of emotions that she otherwise struggles to feel.