Jacob Elordi Is Dressing Like the Bully in a Boarding School Drama (Complimentary)

When it comes to Jacob Elordi’s career, you normally hear the same phrases: So versatile! So chameleonic! Such range! All very accurate. But you can also apply those adjectives to the Aussie star’s wardrobe. One day, he’s going full menswear bro in an Arc’teryx slicker; the next, he’s dressing like boarding school bully who uses a signet ring to indent his family crest on your forehead.

At yesterday’s Oscar Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Elordi looked like he was dressed for class on his first day of senior year. Crisp navy blazer, pristine white dress shirt, skinny repp-stripe tie, all courtesy of Alessandro Michele’s prep-adjacent Valentino. It’s the sort of fit you might expect to see on a Kennedy scion summering in Martha’s Vineyard, or in a psychological thriller set at an elite school somewhere in the Scottish Highlands.

That boarding school agenda continued down to his brown pleated trousers with a slight kick at the hems. He went with no belt, a faux pas in the private school uniform code of conduct. Elordi rounded off the look with a pair of brown loafers: sensible, solid and super-easy to pair with anything.

Spiritually, the fit fits. Especially following his king-on-campus turn in Saltburn, Elordi’s has long given off the energy of that guy who takes yacht trips around Santorini with his family over summer break. A meme of him in a plaid Ralph Lauren button-down with a sweater over his shoulder made the rounds online a few years back, with the caption “he looks like one of my evil second cousins who grew up in Madrid.”

Elordi has some big projects coming this year in Wuthering Heights and The Dog Stars, but if nobody’s cast him in a British boarding school drama yet, his agent better get to work.

This story originally appeared on British GQ.