Why all-grey-everything should be your new look.

For a while now, menswear’s favourite colour has been brown. It appeared on 1970s-style corduroy suits, biscotti-hued cashmere and chocolatey suede. It’s even on MR PORTER’s own official trends list of the season and has been a winter favourite for a while. But according to what we saw at this season’s fashion shows, it has a rival. If the runways in Paris were trustworthy barometers of style, the colour we’ll all be wearing come autumn 2019 is grey.

Designers including Jil Sander, Craig Green and Sacai showed multiple all-grey looks at their runway presentations while Louis Vuitton sent a platoon of grey-clad lads down its Lower East Side-themed walkway. That might sound a little bleak midwinter for high fashion, but on Louis Vuitton’s quilted jackets and fresh suits, Sacai’s athleisure sweatpants and Dior’s sci-fi tailoring, it felt suitably reinvented, adding a tonal sophistication to new silhouettes and styles.

We appreciate, of course, that not every man is going to warm to a concrete-hued kimono jacket, but the appeal of this trend is that it is effortlessly achievable – just wear grey and you’ll look ahead of the curve. Any grey at all, but as much of it as possible. Here are three ideas.

Husbands makes suits that will look as appropriate sipping a negroni in a hotel bar as they will in the boardroom. Consider this new grey look from the Parisian brand as a way to cultivate an air of rakishness. Accessorise with a pebble-coloured Acne Studios scarf to pull the look together and keep cosy, too.

This buttery-soft suede bomber from Valstar is a keeper – get this into your wardrobe and it’ll sharpen up your look now, but will also last for decades. Pair it with these cotton-twill trousers by Thom Browne to keep the colour cohesive while mixing up fabrics.

Heron Preston’s grey hoodie has an orange band at the waist, which stays true to the label’s trademark bright colour and adds a bit of variety. And, in case you didn’t get the idea, the hoodie has “style” written in Russian on the chest. Nobody will know that unless you happen to have a lot of Russian pals, of course – or you live in Russia – but that’s hardly the point. Top it with Polo Ralph Lauren’s baseball cap on off-duty days.

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