To most people, the bright yellow, nondescript fitting jeans Robert Pattinson wore at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this week may have been overkill. To the trained eye, the eye that knows that, in menswear right now, what is bad is good and what is loud is better, they were a confident flex. Sure, Pattinson probably passed them off in red-carpet interviews as NBD ("I love yellow! It's actually my favourite color!") but this is a man who wears obscure feminist skateboarding hoodies to the gym and whose side hustle is modeling for Dior Homme. This is a man who managed to woo both Kristen Stewart and FKA Twigs, two of the flyest humans in the universe. Robert Pattinson knows that these jeans are kind of cool. And sure, he may also like the color yellow.

Whether your eye has scanned a million runways and red carpets or not, you may find that your reaction to these jeans is, "good god, not colored denim again", which is fine and somewhat understandable. But swearing off yellow, or all bright-color jeans, doesn't preclude you from wearing of-the-moment denim. Paint splatters, stone washing, and embroidery are also cool right now, and daring fits are everywhere. Baggy jeans are happening, extra long cuffs are too. You literally cannot shake a stick right now without hitting some denim that would qualify as extra.

Since you can't beat 'em, you might consider joining 'em. Find your favorite color or weird fit and run with it. You only live once.

Crayola Crazy

Calvin Klein 205W39NYC straight-leg jeans, $227 (was $379), buy now at Stylebop AMI large fit jeans, $320, buy now at Farfetch

Paint the Town

Gucci bleached denim punk pants, $860, buy now at Farfetch 3.1 Phillip Lim paint splatter jeans, $458, buy now at Farfetch

Kings of the Stonewash