Cillian Murphy sends fedora sales soaring with iconic ‘Oppenheimer’ headgear look
Cillian Murphy’s role in ‘Oppenheimer’ has sent fedora sales soaring. The ‘Peaky Blinders’ actor, 47, sparked a rise in the popularity of flat caps when he played brutal gangster Thomas Selby in the BBC drama, and has now had the same effect on another style of headgear thanks to his portrayal of the father of the atomic bomb, J Robert Oppenheimer. Retailers are reporting a huge spike in demand for fedoras – as worn by Cillian for almost the entirety of Christopher Nolan’s wartime epic. John Lewis is selling 21 per cent more fedoras than flat caps, and specialist hat seller Herbert Johnson say...