When you think about the cross section where fashion and Watergate meet, your brain probably defaults to boring gray suits—except, perhaps, if you’re Dan Stevens. Stevens was dressed to the nines in a groovy, sherbet-tinged suit for Monday night’s premiere of Gaslit, Starz’s miniseries about the ’70s scandal. The show stars Sean Penn as John N. Mitchell, Nixon’s attorney general, and Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell, his fiercely outspoken wife, as well as Stevens as whistleblower John Dean, and Betty Gilpin as his savvy wife, Mo Kane Deane.

Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gaslit premiere saw Stevens stun in a Creamsicle-inspired suit, which boldly swirled orange, pink, yellow, and red swaths. The pattern was reminiscent of both a lava lamp and Fruit Stripe gum, and complemented the red carpet’s color scheme. “I wanted to blend in,” Stevens told V.F. “I wanted to come disguised as a work of art.” 

Stevens coordinated his colors down to his fingernails, each of which was painted a hue found in his suit. 

Along with being a meticulous dresser, Stevens is also an easygoing scene partner, according to co-star Gilpin. “I think that you never really know when you show up on day one what the actor opposite you is going to be like,” she told V.F. on the carpet. “You never know if he’s gonna be ultra Method and terrifying, or doesn’t want to look you in the eye, or, you know, is a horror show. Dan is just a saint and so the opposite of that, which often makes me be like, ‘Oh, then he’s probably not a very good actor if he’s normal.’ And then he was such a great actor.”

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