Whether it's as the nefarious archcriminal Moriarty in Sherlock, the ‘hot priest’ of Fleabag, or most recently, tugging on our collective heartstrings in All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Scott has been doing it all for the better part of a decade. Ironically, none of us are strangers to how well Scott has been able to allure us all with his performances on screen. He’s the ultimate leading man, and he’s been having a ball getting dressed off-screen too. 

The Irish actor has been on something of a suiting extravaganza this awards season, bringing his louche but bright approach to formalwear to red carpets all across the globe. He’s got the contemporary touch of a man in the know, but his cuts and styles draw heavily from Old Hollywood glamour. He’s a romantic, after all. 

Scott’s ability to push the envelope with his suiting looks is bolstered by a strong repertoire of classics. He’s done the black-tie-satin-lapel penguin suit number—and nailed it—and that’s opened the door to his more recent, and more experimental riffs on the classics. 

Take this banana-yellow, custom Etro suit for the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards. On the wrong person, a fit like this would have you looking one hat short of a guardian for a curious monkey, but on Scott, with the cropped jacket and sheer polo underneath, he’s an effulgent beacon of suave sunshine. Try saying that ten times fast. 

Of course, Scott’s ability to captivate the red carpet has been helped greatly by stylist Warren Alfie Baker. But then again, it’s all about how it looks on the man at the end of the day. 

It’s not just in a yellow coloured suit that Scott can hold a room. For the 2024 BAFTAs, he was in custom Berluti, draped in a lavishing shade of scarlet. Not an easy colour to pull off by any means. And Pedro Pascal, who also donned a splash of red for the 2023 Met Gala, summed it up best in a comment on Baker’s Instagram post— “red hot”. Scott is showing that you can lean into alternate shades in the suiting catalogue and not look like you’ve sprung from an early noughties music video.

It’s hard not to draw comparisons to the other Irish star of the red carpet, Paul Mescal, who stars alongside Scott in All Of Us Strangers. Mescal, who seems quite entrenched in a new Gucci era, is tapping into an old-school sexiness and countering the new-age insouciance of Scott. Whatever side you land on, there’s no doubting the range of the Irish—and yes, that includes Barry Keoghan.

But back to Scott. He likes to keep it pretty breezy in his suits, reluctant to add any sort of neckwear to his free-flowing blazers and billowing pants. From simple tank tops underneath to sternum-revealing unbuttoned sheer shirts, Scott is still a champion of a tie-free red carpet, even if many of his contemporaries are leaning back in. Of course, when Scott does add some neckwear, it's in the form of the draping white tie that was part of his Lanvin look for an LA screening of All of Us Strangers. Or something like a simple leather tie—it’s rarely the straightforward silk or cupro option.

Suits, in all their great expanse of definition, are having a particular moment right now. Coming up alongside Hollywood’s men of the moment, stars like Cillian Murphy, Jeremy Allen White, and Colman Domingo are all bringing their unique takes on formalwear across the long awards season we’ve been treated to. But is anyone having more fun with it than Scott? He’s got colour, cuts, and an effortless sense of cool that we’re incredibly envious of.

Here are more of our favourite looks from the latest star of the red carpet, and let it inspire you to lean in a little more next time you have to throw on the old suit.

Wearing Lanvin for a screening All Of Us Strangers.

Wearing Amiri at the Virtuosos Award ceremony. 

Wearing Paul Smith at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. 

Wearing Sandro at the National Board Of Review Awards Gala.

Wearing custom Valentino at the Golden Globes. 

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