Troye Sivan stepped onto the Spotify Best New Artist party carpet in Los Angeles this week wearing a black leather harness over a sheer black tank, and within an hour the photos had done what Troye Sivan photos always do: detonated across every timeline in America.
The 29-year-old Australian pop star has spent the last two years quietly becoming one of the most reliably viral red-carpet presences in Hollywood, and Tuesday night was no exception.
Fashion accounts posted side-by-sides before the event had even wrapped.
The look itself was classic Sivan: equal parts sweaty warehouse rave and Studio 54, styled with a single silver chain and the kind of smudged eyeliner that takes a team to make look effortless.
He paired the harness with wide-leg black trousers and chunky boots, a silhouette he's been refining since his "Something to Give Each Other" era.
Stylists on X immediately started calling it the best menswear moment of the young awards season.
Sivan was spotted laughing with Charli XCX near the bar, and the two were later photographed in a tight group shot with producer buddies that fans are already calling a "brat summer reunion." Neither has confirmed a collaboration, which means the internet has decided one exists anyway.
A grainy clip of the two of them mid-conversation has racked up millions of views.
Romantically, Sivan has kept things characteristically low-key since his split from longtime partner Jacob Bixenman, which the couple confirmed in 2023 after five years together.
He's been linked to a few rumored flings since, but nothing he's ever publicly addressed.
His approach has been to let the music and the wardrobe do the talking, and honestly, it's working.
When a pop star won't confirm a relationship, every dinner photo becomes a national event.
Professionally, he's riding a genuinely interesting wave.
His acting turn in "The Idol" was divisive, but it cemented him as someone Hollywood wants in the room.
He's been quietly attached to a handful of film projects, keeps teasing new music on Instagram Stories, and remains one of the few artists who can move between pop, fashion, and prestige TV without seeming like a tourist in any of them.
The harness moment matters because it's a reminder of what Sivan actually is in 2025: not a former YouTuber trying to be taken seriously, but a fully formed pop-cultural figure who understands that a red carpet is a performance.
He's treating it like a stage he already owns.
Our take: Sivan has figured out the one thing most pop stars never do, which is that mystique and thirst traps can coexist.
He gives fans just enough chaos to keep them fed and just enough silence to keep them guessing.
Final Thoughts
If a new album really is coming, this red carpet was the opening act.