It's time to give Lukas Gage another look. Sure, we've had our eyes trained on him since the and days, but recently, something's shifted. The 29-year-old actor, who says he's "a complete contradiction when it comes to my style," has started to embrace the idea that getting dressed with intention isn't as intimidating as he once thought it was.

"I played it safe for so long,” he tells me over the phone from Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport. “I had a little '90s Hugh Grant thing I was trying to do for a while, but now I'm mixing it up. And now it's all about the early 2000s baby.

” If any doubt remains in your mind re: the vibe shift, just take a look at what he wore to the Stella McCartney spring/summer 2025 runway show at Paris Fashion Week, where he sat front row with a bevvy of boldface names like , , Tom Daley, and Kathryn Newton. With a heavily textured shirt jacket, a sliver of white tank peeking out, and a pair of baggy, paneled jeans, he's bringing Y2K right into 2024. But what makes the actor so compelling—dare we say it—might not be his sense of style.

It’s his sense of self. My conversation with Gage carried him through CDG's corridors and terminals, taking twists and turns before coming back full circle like a luggage conveyor belt. Before he hopped on his flight home, here’s everything he had to say.

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