The men who wore it well on one of awards season’s biggest nights.

Awards season might be about stars grappling for Bafta masks and Gramophone trophies, but the real competition takes place on the red carpet. Plus, as more and more celebrities take risks with menswear, there’s a lot to digest, especially when two awards shows go head-to-head on the same night. Yesterday, the Baftas took place in London while the Grammys did its thing in LA and if we’re talking clothes (and we inevitably are), the two ceremonies throw up an interesting litany of parallels and oppositions that beg for a little deconstruction.

Most of the attendees at last year’s Baftas were kitted out in black in support of the Time’s Up and #MeToo campaigns. But for 2019, white – or at least white with black – seemed to be the talking point. Of course, when it comes to black-tie events such as this, monochrome is perhaps the easiest colour palette to play with, and figures including Messrs Taron Egerton and Joe Alwyn showed that the classic tuxedo – immaculately crisp in the case of Mr Egerton, louchely ruffled in the hands of Mr Alwyn – is hard to better. (Although Mr Mahershala Ali might have something to say about that, wearing his snakeskin-embellished take with the swagger of someone collecting a gong.) Mr Riz Ahmed kept to last year’s message with a refined head-to-toe black Dunhill look worthy of only the most daredevil chocolate delivery agent. But as is customary with recent award seasons, the sartorial standard was well and truly set by one Mr Timothée Chalamet, who took on a metallic leopard-print jacket-and-shirt combo by Haider Ackermann and won.

If the Baftas is the slightly traditional awards ceremony for the besuited glitterati of TV and film, then the Grammys is its mad musical cousin from across the pond – and were we here to talk about womenswear, it would be impossible not to mention Cardi B’s vintage Thierry Mugler couture dress, which showed the rapper emerging from a shell-shaped gown à la Mr Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth Of Venus. Still, the gents didn’t do a bad job of turning heads. Soul artist Mr Leon Bridges wore a custom corduroy suit from Bode – very soulful indeed – and Fantastic Negrito donned a bright red patchwork suit with his hair in a mohawk, proving that a little theatricality in dressing can be done at age 51 just as it can at 21. Elsewhere, the record producer Mr Ludwig Göransson wore a rakish white tux and, in tune with the trend for red-carpet rule flouting, Mr Mitch Grassi channelled some powerful feminine energy with a Burberry suit and a pair of wedges. Fun! Our unsung style heroes of the night, though, were dance/electronic duo Justice, who, in their contrasting blazers and trousers, made a quiet case for dressing to complement your bandmate.

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