Crazy Rich Asians

Last year, Timothée Chalamet was everyone’s breakthrough style icon with a stirring Oscar-nominated turn in Call Be by Your Name, his luscious once-in-a-generation locks and a gender-bending way with tailoring. This year, it was all Henry Golding, who proved to be a ready-made 21st century Hugh Grant (minus the mumbling and bumbling) with his lead role in Crazy Rich Asians, all while displaying the finest roll call of slick suits since Don Draper left our screens behind a veil of fag ash.

On screen and off it, Golding was consistently well suited. In Crazy Rich Asians his cool and calm romantic lead, Nick Young, is a well-heeled and impossibly charming member of the Singaporean elite. A tidy suit is all part of the game with Young possessing an almost chameleonic ability to flit between colourful smart-casual and traditional black tie. It’s the former that really flies high, with a showcase of easy, breezy pastel hues that are set to become one of the biggest tailoring trends over the next year.

Queer Eye

Reality TV isn’t exactly renowned for its sterling fashion sense. Let’s just say no one from Saint Laurent was styling the cast of Jersey Shore. But Queer Eye is a different breed of reality TV show, one that’s less focused on the catfights and binge drinking and more on the self-love, social progress, and floral printed shirts.

If you’ve lived under a rock for the past last year (or just haven’t got round to subscribing to Netflix) Queer Eye is about five fantastically fabulous gay gentleman who waltz into a shabby but endearing man (or woman’s) life for an episode. They dust off the cobwebs, throw a glacier cherry on top and voila, better than new and with a fresh-ass wardrobe to boot.

Tan France, is one of this fab five and the show’s fashion expert. His advice rests on the basic tenet that a floral printed shirt and a simple, slim fitting blazer will look good on anyone which is kinda, sorta true. But the fab five themselves have a much more sophisticated style sense. Tan is all into his colorful tailoring, Anton wears the hell out of a Breton tee and Karamo Brown was on our list of the best-dressed men of 2018. It’s a style lesson every week, and not just for the people whose lives they’re making over. We’re taking notes.