How this year’s biggest cultural releases will impact your wardrobe.

Last year was a fascinating one for on-screen style. Particular highpoints include the muted primary colours of Mr Park Chan-wook’s The Little Drummer Girl, the immaculate 1990s Miami Italo-disco kitsch of The Assassination Of Gianni Versace and Ms Ruth Carter’s visionary neo-tribal designs on Black Panther. In these turbulent times, we also saw an increasing link between fashion and political beliefs, from statement brooches to the all-black Golden Globes. What can we expect from 2019? Here are some of the most stylish films and TV shows due to arrive this year – and how they might change the way you dress.

For the gorgeous If Beale Street Could Talk, Mr Barry Jenkins’ first film since his Oscar-winning Moonlight, costume designer Ms Caroline Eselin used the descriptions from Mr James Baldwin’s novel to create realististic 1970s looks that capture rather than caricature the era. Much like The Little Drummer Girl and Mr Tom Ford’s A Single Man, a slower narrative pace invites closer attention to the clothes. The subversion of 1970s-into-1980s clichés should continue with Mr Joaquin Phoenix’s turn in Joker, Mr Damon Lindelof’s TV reboot of Watchmen, as well as season two of Mindhunter, directed by master-stylists Mr David Fincher and The Assassination Of Jesse James’ Mr Andrew Dominik. The upcoming Sir Elton John biopic Rocketman may even revive sequins and flamboyant glasses…

Sir Elton John’s shades bring us neatly onto the absurdist visual lens pioneered by Atlanta (described by creator Mr Donald Glover as “Twin Peaks with rappers”) and Mr Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You (in which one character wears a Mr René Magritte-style bowler hat and an eye patch). Building on a cross-form Afro-surrealism that satirises the nightmare-logic of life in a racist society, this year Mr Jordan Peele follows Get Out with the terrifying Us and a reboot of The Twilight Zone. Another fashion-heavy fantasy release is Mr Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, each of whose characters seems to have a distinctive suit sensibility (we particularly enjoy the eggshell overcoat and rollneck worn by Mr Jon Hamm’s Archangel Gabriel).

Black Mirror’s choose-your-own-adventure feature “Bandersnatch” was a treasure trove of 1980s style, especially Mr Will Poulter’s peroxide-blonde hair and lab-tech specs. Sex Education, a sex-positive spin on the high-school rites-of-passage that’s already had 40 million views, has a knowingly transatlantic design: Mr Ncuti Gatwa’s Eric is an early 2019 idol for his all-orange fancy-dress, floral trousers and wardrobe of frocks. Following delightful Bros doc After The Screaming Stops – which became a cult hit over Christmas – the Goss twins have announced a new tour. Whether this reignites a reappraisal of the fans’ uniform – leather jacket, white T-shirt, tight ripped jeans and red bandana – remains to be seen. With the third season of Stranger Things due out in July, expect more 1980s runway riffs in the vein of Louis Vuitton SS18 women’s collection.

We’re not even a month into 2019 and it has been quite the year already for Hollywood’s coolest lead. Three luminous performances over three timeframes have reinvigorated the True Detective brand. In Green Book (an old-fashioned film with a dubious white-saviour message and slippery relationship with the truth), Mr Mahershala Ali is a breath of modernity as classical pianist Dr Donald Shirley, who lives in an apartment above Carnegie Hall and sits on a throne in a gold-accent caftan. Mr Ali’s fashion choices mirror his acting. On the 2017 awards circuit for his hypnotic performance in Moonlight, he reinvented the classics (flame-embroidered Dior Homme suit at the Golden Globes; a stunning all-black Ermenegildo Zegna tuxedo at the Oscars). He can also pull off a throwback hat, from a Mr Marvin Gaye-esque knit beanie to a Village People black leather cap at the True Detective premiere. Next he’s in Messrs Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel, a futurist new step for an enlightened class act.

There’s a changing of the guard at the palace. For the third season of Netflix’s monarchy saga The Crown (due for release later this year), out go Ms Claire Foy and Mr Matt Smith as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, in come Ms Olivia Colman (fresh from reenergising period drama in Oscar-frontrunner The Favourite) and Mr Tobias Menzies in their place. Early stills show Mr Ben Daniels’ Lord Snowdon in raffish black tie and Mr Menzies in the white tie-and-medals he wore to a 1967 soiree in Malta. Keep an eye out, too, for Mr Josh O’Connor’s Prince Charles in the red-and-white striped polo shirt, cream jodhpurs and knee-high brown boots as he encounters Ms Camilla Parker-Bowles for the first time. Set in the late 1960s to the 1970s, this may be the most attentive evocation of mid-century fashion shifts since Mad Men and could reignite a similar taste for retro formalwear.

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