From Mr Timothée Chalamet to Mr Takashi Murakami – the men who wore it well this month.

January is the price we pay for Christmas, the ice, the rain and the lack of tangible pleasures to latch onto. It is also the time when designers show their stuff. Barely has the year begun when fashion editors and buyers and a batallion of hangers-on start on that grand progress across the world in search of the latest clothes and the freshest names making them. It is tiring work and by the end of this toing a froing, fashion writers often look like withered husks. There is, however, a group of men who do not look like etiolated corn byproducts by the denouement; these are the men who live on planet celebrity and who pop in and out of the fashion solar system like well-groomed comets. To get you over the finish line and into the next month of the year, and to pass along the odd tip, we bring you a roundup of the best-dressed men of the month.

The star of _Beautiful Bo_y Mr Timothée Chalamet is sweet honey to red-carpet photographers. Despite having only seen 23 summers, he always contrives to looks absolutely self-assured in public, as if he was to the manner born. Perhaps he is a reincarnated Ms Elizabeth Taylor. We’ll never know, but you don’t have to be Miss Marple to see that the man knows how to dress. The double-breasted cotton-and-silk mixed suit, the shirt clasped high on the neck, the richly patinated boots recall a young Mr Keith Richards in the mid-1960s and frankly, what more could a man in possession of cheek bones and on the cusp of mega-stardom wish for.

Mr Heron Preston is the apotheosis of the modern slashy; an artist/content creator/DJ/creative director. And why not? MR PORTER devotees will know that he also has his own streetwear brand, which takes his name. Here, the Parsons School of Design graduate attends the show of his sometime collaborator, Mr Virgil Abloh, in Paris and does so looking absolutely corking. The of-the-moment puffa jacket, in a pleasingly crinkled sky blue gives a broad-shouldered silhouete while his black shell trousers and sneakers complete the designer’s par excellence streetwear look.

Mr Johannes Huebl supposedly lives in New York, but we rather fancy he actually resides in the forward compartments of planes. He seems to float across borders with sleek impunity, following the fashion standard wherever it may go. Here he is in Milan, striding forward like a doge in a rush. He looks like a man in command. The pristine white sneakers and symphony of dark blues in coat, trousers and rollneck, along with the technically superfluous sunglasses, give him the air of a certain Mr Gianni Agnelli.

If ever a man was comfortable in his place in the world – and what a place it is! – it is Mr Riz Ahmed, pictured here at the Dunhill show in Paris. Legs apart, nonchalant hands in his pockets, and a slight imperial tilt of the head – he looks like a Roman emperor pausing at the colosseum to take the salute. And the British actor, rapper, and activist has much to be saluted for, quite frankly, not least his style. Here he is, dressed head-to-toe in Dunhill. He manages to look incredibly smart without being formal; the wide-leg trousers and neoprene top feel classic but also modern.

There are many things to like about the Japanese artist Mr Takashi Murakami, but what draws the eye from the get-go here is what is on his face: a smile. At times, it seems that the one thing that is always in fashion at the shows is a weighty scowl. Perhaps it makes faces look thinner; who knows? It is not the only thing of note about the 56-year-old artist, whose work blurs the boundaries between high- and low-art and is the darling of the fashion world. He is also very well-dressed, showing himself to be an artist in layering different textures on top of one another. Everything he is wearing seems to be oversized – the brown trousers, the high-tops, the checked coat and the hoodie all give him an appearance of ice-cool solidity.

Mr Robert Pattinson seems to be moving with the velocity of a Exocet here. As well he might be, given he had just attended the sophomore show of Mr Kim Jones at Dior, and was off to the after-party which was long on A-listers (Mses Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, et al.) and short on invitations for everyone else. At any rate, aside from his haste, what is notable is that he is distilling a trend of the moment. The trend for brown. Brown coat, brown rollneck, brown trousers – only the sneakers and cap take divergent paths. He looks exactly what he is: a Hollywood star off to a do.

Mr Stéphane Bak is a 22-year-old actor and humorist, the cut of whose jib we very much like. He has been rising through the shimmering ranks of French celebrity ever since breaking into the comedy circuit at the spritely age of 14. He has since trod the boards and acted in several films. Work life aside, he also has another skill: he looks extremely good in clothes. Especially here, when the clothes are by Acne Studios. The matching tone of his ribbed-knit sweater with a contrasting satin pocket and the satin trousers rolled up to show off the oxblood shoes has an almost symphonic air. Play on.

Beams fashion director Mr Shuhei Nishiguchi is something of a favourite at MR PORTER. Especially since our collaboration, and recent party, with Beams F, the offshoot brand that has just launched on MR PORTER exclusively. His outfit here is just superb. His look brings to mind the artist Mr Duncan Grant with a little of Sir Isaiah Berlin mixed in. And yet, despite this, he also looks thoroughly modern. He wears a multitude of different textures, at least eight by our count, and ranges across a palette of earthy colours. Those two things alone mark him out as a man of great style. But the more so when one considers the assured cuts of everything. When we grow up, we want to be Mr Shuhei Nishiguchi.

The men featured in this story are not associated with and do not endorse MR PORTER or the products shown