We know that you know that Austin Butler is a regular on the red carpet. Bagging roles in Elvis, Dune Part 2, and Masters of the Air will get you there. But once you’re au fait with Hollywood ribbon-cuttings and premieres, your suit doesn’t have to be all left-field and experimental. Like Butler, you can go for a classic, wear-everywhere rig—and no, that’s not a dull move.
Last night, at Saint Laurent’s autumn/winter 2025 women’s show, the actor defaulted to the loose-double breasted suit we’ve seen him do so many times before. There was the gray suit he wore to The Bikeriders Rome photocall, the three-piece pinstripe suit for a London screening, and a mafia all-black moment ahead of a Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearence. This time around, though, it was a louche double-breasted navy number, with a silver striped tie from Saint Laurent. The lapels were big and sprawling, shoulders wide and structured, the trousers loose and pooling over Butler’s leather square-toe lace-ups. It was all remarkably…classic.
By taking the double-breasted suit to this scale, you’re getting the defined, top-heavy structure of the traditional style. But, with the elongated jacket and mega baggy trousers, you get a softer, chiller side to things that makes a very formal suit look so easy. A sweet spot between oversized and skinny, if you will.
There’s no better school for seductive, roomy suiting than Saint Laurent. Under creative director Anthony Vaccarello, the French label has doubled-down on relaxed, double-breasted jackets and trousers, inspired by the suits worn by founder Yves Saint Laurent himself (but taken to bigger, beefier proportions). GQ’s Samuel Hine described them as “the most important suits of the year” in 2024. They’re important because they do everything a suit should do; they’re wearable, empowering, and, most importantly, easy.
This is the suit you can wear everywhere, everyday and still pop every single time—even when you’re Austin Butler and a red carpet is an almost daily exercise.
4 A-List Navy Suits With Everyman Appeal
This story originally appeared on British GQ.
