Tom Brady’s foray into high fashion picked up a critic this week. Former teammate Antonio Brown retweeted GQ’s feature on Brady’s new Gucci campaign Wednesday.
He wrote that the seven-time Super Bowl champion looked as though he “dressed like Ellen DeGeneres.”
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DeGeneres, the longtime television host and comedian, built her own brand and an estimated $500 million fortune, according to Forbes, around a signature uniform of tailored blazers and trousers.
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GQ published an exclusive interview with Brady on Tuesday detailing his turn into what the magazine called a “leather pants guy.” Brady stars in Gucci’s fall-winter 2026 print campaign, shot by Michal Chelbin, alongside Alex Consani, EsDeeKid and Shawn Mendes. This is his second run with the fashion house after walking the runway at Demna’s cruise show in Times Square in May.
Brady told GQ the leather-on-leather look was new territory but grew on him fast.
“I thought, ‘D*mn, that’s actually really comfortable,'” he said. “I could see why people wear this. It’s definitely a different look. It felt more like a uniform, there was a rigidity and a structure to it, like my football uniform.”
Brady described the Gucci offer as a chance to step outside habits built over two decades in the NFL.
“At first, there was a bit of like, ‘Wait, say that again?'” he said of the initial call from the fashion house. “But the more we got into it, I think the more excited I got, and I realized how unique the experience would be for me to really get outside my comfort zone and try something I’ve never tried.”
Meanwhile, Brown’s tweet fits a pattern he’s kept up since their days as Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammates. He regularly trolls Brady on social media over everything from his personal life to his post-football ventures.
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Tom Brady open to more fashion work
Tom Brady said he isn’t ruling out future campaigns.
“I would never say never to doing anything,” he said, noting he came into the Gucci project without a fashion background and instead “just kind of take(s) the opportunity for what it is.”
He credited two decades of football-honed discipline for keeping him camera-ready at 49, saying his workout routine has stuck with him “since I was in sixth or seventh grade” and still centers on protecting his joints and keeping his body performing the way it did during his playing days.
Edited by Joseph Schiefelbein
