Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac Wore the Two Fall Jackets Every Menswear Guy Wants Now

The trick here, then, is to get a really great jacket to amp up your casual attire.

For Elordi, that meant an overshirt from Bottega Veneta—a brand the actor has been an official ambassador for since last year. Loose and expensive, it's the sort of thing that reads as “fashion” without going too directional. Plus, it's in one of the most feared fabrics in menswear: leather. On the confident wearer, it's guaranteed to elevate things, to make you look like you wear clothes from high-brow, in-the-know, top-tier Italian brands (which Elordi does on the regular). This is a jacket for guys who have a high-risk, high-reward relationship to clothing. Bet high; wear leather.

And there's Isaac, whom the internet is currently regarding as a man at his aesthetic peak. (“Waited years for him to ferment to this point… Oscar, I’m ready whenever you are,” went one particularly feral post on X a few months back.) For the brunch event in London, the actor reached for a chic JW Anderson farm jacket, which offered a bit of bucolic farmer-ness in its checked lining. Its shape is slightly longer to offset the boxiness, creating a silhouette that feels so deeply, reassuringly classic that this jacket will likely still bang as hard today as it will in ten years' time. Just as a high-end Bottega Veneta leather shacket is an unimpeachable vibe, so, too, are village pub pints in a hardy, humble jacket.

Herein lies the modern menswear binary, then – and there are no two better envoys than Elordi and Isaac. Go fashion. Go farmy. Do both!

A version of this story originally appeared in British GQ.