Andrew Scott Kept His Style Hot Streak Alive With a Suave, Sensual Party Suit

Ramon Christian

Hot on the heels of his internet-breaking group pic, Andrew Scott turned up on Friday at a special LA screening of his buzzy new movie All of Us Strangers in yet another major fit. The Irish actor looked every inch the leading man in an emerald green suit and a louche tie-front shirt, both by Lanvin. To punctuate the look, he wore a pair of sleek Scarosso boots designed in collaboration with his stylist Warren Alfie Baker.

“We wanted to stick to Andrew’s core style but play a little,” Baker told GQ via email. “We love playing with a ’50s vibe but with a modern touch. This look just felt really romantic and we wanted to steer into that. It feels masculine but with a feminine touch.” That tension is what makes the look so riveting. Somehow, it conjures both sides of that eternally cool power couple of ’70s Hollywood: Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston.

Scott broke out in 2016 as the hot priest on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, but he’s truly come into his own this year thanks to star-making turns in both All of Us Strangers and his powerhouse solo production of Chekhov’s Vanya on the West End. The former feature, directed by Andrew Haigh, is generating Scott plenty of major awards chatter—just yesterday, he picked up a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.

“There are some things that people know to be true, but are barely said out loud, definitively,” Waller-Bridge said in her toast to Scott at British GQ’s Men of the Year party last month. “So I'm gonna state something like that now, just so everyone can relax. Andrew Scott is the greatest actor of our time.” That statement was met with enthusiastic applause in the room, and now, with All of Us Strangers set to open stateside on December 22, more and more people are joining the chorus.

It certainly helps that Scott has been delivering plenty of eye-catching ensembles to match his onscreen prowess. He donned a showstopping Valentino look to the British GQ party, pulled up to another LA screening this week in a bicep-baring Etro top, and was all smiles in a cozy Thom Browne sweater vest in that aforementioned group photo.

Up next for Scott? History, potentially. No gay actor has been nominated for an Oscar playing a gay role since Ian McKellen for Gods and Monsters in 1999.

“The more I continue in this job,” Scott recently told British GQ’s Olivia Pym for his Men of the Year cover story, “the more I realize it’s about revealing who you are much more than it is about pretending to be somebody else.”

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