The Sharpest Men Of The Month

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The Sharpest Men Of The Month

Words by Mr Stuart Husband

31 August 2016

From Mr Jamie Dornan to Mr Jaden Smith – the street-style icons we’re keeping tabs on.

If dressing well is a form of good manners, as  once , the latest entrants in our who-wore-it-best roundup have no need to resort to Debrett’s, Ms Emily Post, or any other etiquette guide. In fact, they are ever-prepared with polite small talk, they’re ready to pass the port to the left at all times, and they never board a  before their row is called. In short, you can take them anywhere. Scroll down to see who hit peak protocol this month.

MR JACK HUSTON

Mr Jack Huston in SoHo, New York City, 5 August. Photograph by Mr Raymond Hall/Getty Images

Mr Jack Huston is the scion of majestic forebears – his grandfather was the legendary  Mr John Huston, and there are various Marquesses of Cholmondeley also in the mix – so it’s no surprise that he was chosen to play the storied prince, Ben-Hur, in the recent reboot. It’s also natural, given his provenance, that he should wear a  with such smooth insouciance. Rather than quite-literally stepping into Mr Charlton Heston’s strappy , Mr Huston proves he’s no one’s style slave by deploying a textured  and scuffed  to dial down the formality. There’s only one winner in this particular chariot race.

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MR JADEN SMITH

Mr Jaden Smith arrives at Variety’s Power Of Young Hollywood in Los Angeles, 16 August. Photograph by Mr Jon Kopaloff/Film Magic

In life, as in style, Mr Jaden Smith has been all about consciousness-raising, tweeting his ruminations on everything from nature (“Most trees are blue”), to oral hygiene (“Umm who has the floss”), and displaying his non-binary credentials by wearing dresses. At Variety’s recent Power Of  bash, Mr Smith, who is currently starring in Netflix’s birth-of-a-hip-hop-nation epic , did dizzying things with proportion, pairing an effervescent fro with a baggy , whose hearts-and-flowers motif may have been referencing  De La Soul’s “D.A.I.S.Y. Age”, or illustrating another of his celebrated tweets: “All the rules in this world were made by someone no smarter than you. So make your own.”

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MR JAMIE DORNAN

Mr Jamie Dornan visiting the set of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in New York City, 4 August. Photograph by Matrix Pictures

Having recently completed back-to-back filming of Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, it’s pikestaff-plain that  has become a leading authority on, well, let’s just call it that intermediate shade between  and , as generally sported by ashes, lead, or business magnates with BDSM fetishes. Conclusive proof: the way he pairs this suit, at the paler end of the shade-in-question’s spectrum, with the crispest of  and a , some creatively-patina’d , and that familiar “get any further in my face and I’ll be happy to escort you to my red room of pain” look, set to take box offices by storm all over again when the  are released over the next couple of years.

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MR JOE KEERY

Mr Joe Keery at Variety’s Power Of Young Hollywood in Los Angeles, 16 August. Photograph by Mr Michael Buckner/REX Shutterstock

Mr Joe Keery is one of the stars of , the Netflix series that takes various aspects of 1980s pop culture – Spielbergian suburban surrealism, Brat Pack badinage, Mr Stephen King-esque horror – and whizzes them through a creative blender to produce something quite spectacular. Style-wise, Mr Keery is staging his own personal homage to the 1980s; specifically the tawny  (with rolled-up sleeves), pegged , ,  and chunky , as worn by Mr Michael Jackson in the celebrated video to 1983’s “Beat It”. Could Mr Keery’s clean, streamlined take reinvent the look for the 2010s and inspire a new generation to pull their cuffs northward? Stranger things have happened…

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MR JOSH MCLELLAN

Mr Josh McLellan at the UK film premiere of Suicide Squad, London, 3 August. Photograph by Xposure Photos

The band that Mr Josh McLellan plays in – when not busy modelling – is called Turbogeist; but the “geist” Mr McLellan is nailing here, at the premiere of Suicide Squad, is the one preceded by “zeit”. His  continues to be a mainstay at collections from  to  this season, and he offsets it beautifully with a buttoned-up shirt and straight-leg trousers. The whole West Side Story-goes-Ivy-League ensemble is finished off with a purposeful pair of  doing their best winklepicker impression. Forget the Suicide Squad, and don’t even mention the awkward squad; Mr McLellan is heading up the mod squad.

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MR JUSTICE SMITH

Mr Justice Smith at the premiere of Netflix’s The Get Down, New York City, 13 August. Photograph by Mr Roger Wong/INFphoto.com

If Mr Justice Smith – the second guy from The Get Down in this stylish list, proving that the show has plenty of (Grandmaster) flash – were arraigned before a jury of his peers, and charged with being just too out-and-out superfly, how would he plead? Consider the evidence: the ebullient fro and , channelling the mid- pomp of Mr Stevie Wonder; the immaculately-fitted  and rep , channelling the early-1960s edge of Mr Malcolm X; plus the , channelling the unimpeachable  elan of Mr John Coltrane. He’s guilty – cool in the first degree. No need for a sentence: Mr Smith’s dapper poise is a form of community service in itself.

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MR MILES TELLER

Mr Miles Teller at the premiere of War Dogs, Los Angeles, 15 August. Photograph by Barcroft Media

In his new film War Dogs,  plays a stoner Miami Beach massage therapist turned unlikely arms dealer, and some of that freewheeling sang-froid seems to have informed his demeanour at the movie’s premiere. It’s there in the choppy peroxide crop and “would you like some dumdum rounds with that Uzi?” swagger. It takes material form in his three-piece suit boasting the subtlest of , a direct hit for the , along with the practically-patent, sure-shot sheen of the Oxfords. This is the formal look to emulate right now – at a clip.

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MR RODRIGO SANTORO

Mr Rodrigo Santoro at the Ben-Hur premiere, Mexico City, 9 August. Photograph by Mr Carlos Tischler/REX Shutterstock

Many of us, when faced with a pressing dilemma, have asked ourselves the question: what would Jesus do? One answer, at least, now presents itself: if you’re Mr Rodrigo Santoro, who plays Jesus, alongside Mr Huston in the Ben-Hur remake, you take a punt on the palest of ,  suits for the movie’s premiere, but you pull it off spectacularly, thanks to the immaculate fit and the play of the muted shade against your darker colouring, which you further highlight with a plain  and dark tie. The bold walnut shade of the  elevates the ensemble to a realm of the miraculous that could give the whole loaves-and-fishes thing a run for its money.

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