Not just a black comedy with a feisty feminist heart, the Oscar-tipped film The Favourite is packed with trends for 2019. “As well as looking at references and images from the period, I always look at fashion,” says The Favourite’s costume designer, Sandy Powell. “There is always something in contemporary fashion that is inspiring.” We agree. So here are the film’s most inspirational fashion moments.

Armour up

A subdom leather fetish for the ages. Photograph: Yorgos Lanthimos/Allstar/Film4

When Rachel Weisz’s Duchess of Marlborough slowly puts Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in leather armour before a horse ride, it’s not only a sexy woman-on-woman subdom leather fetish moment for the ages, but the logical conclusion of the autumn/winter 2018 “fashion-as-armour” trend as seen on the catwalk at Alexander McQueen.

Monochrome matters

Non-period approach to colours. Photograph: Allstar/Film4

One of the things that makes The Favourite such a visual feast is its gleefully non-period approach to wardrobe. Powell amped up the film’s fashion cred by making bursting bodices black and white – monochrome being, of course, a perennial trend. Oscar de la Renta, Victoria Beckham and JW Anderson are fans for this spring – but, if you’re more cosy than corset, head to Weekday for monochrome knitwear.

Makeup for men

Wigs and makeup … your summer look previewed. Photograph: Allstar/Film4

In face powder, beauty patches and rouge, Nicholas Hoult’s look couldn’t be more on-trend today. Chanel and Tom Ford have led the man-slap vanguard lately, launching concealer, foundation and brow pencils for boys. For men keen to follow in Hoult’s footsteps, may we suggest a YouTube tutorial from megawatt beauty vlogger James Charles?

Denim for days

In director Yorgos Lanthimos’s 18th century, the servants are so hip they all wear double denim – Powell used old cut-up jeans to make the women’s bodices and skirts, and the men’s britches and jackets. A clear sign, we think, that the Canadian-tuxedo look is here to stay. Further proof is available in the killer double-D looks available on the high street: Zara, Bimba y Lola and Mango are all doing it right.

Wiggery pokery

Wigginess abounds in The Favourite, with fluffy powdered syrups on Tories and mahoosive horn-shaped wigs on, er, Whigs. Lady Gaga, Sia and Nicki Minaj have been wigging out for years, but Cher-levels of false hair were recently reached at Jeremy Scott and Moschino autumn/winter 2018 catwalks, so it is 100% certain we’ll be wearing them to work by the summer. Don’t believe us? Check out the wig range at Selfridges.

Menswear as womenswear

Borrowing from the boys … Photograph: Y Lanthimos/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

Weisz spends much of The Favourite looking fine in a pair of britches and a tricorn. Could we be about to follow suit? The trend for “borrowing from the boys” is also big for 2019: wear power pant suits with shoulder pads now, investing in softer, utility-style pieces for spring. See Arket’s modern take on tailoring for how to perfect the look.

Gout

As was recently reported in this paper, the inflammatory arthritis favoured by Henry VIII is back, back, back. Tatler listed gout as a sign of being “upper class in 2019”. Perhaps the fact that Queen Anne is shown hobbling about in The Favourite is not so much an attempt at historical accuracy, but a recognition that it is #sohotrightnow.