Timothée Chalamet[#image: /photos/5d54482c511e9f000877c6dc]

Following small parts in Homeland and Interstellar, New York-native Timothée Chalamet began his ascent to It-boy status in 2017 with roles in Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age film Lady Bird, and Luca Guadagnino's romantic drama Call Me By Your Name.

At this point, just after Call Me By Your Name’s Sundance premiere, the actor formed a designer-muse relationship with then creative director of Berluti, Haider Ackermann. Cue clean-cut-yet-fashion-forward looks for the rest of the film’s press tour that included black shirts, polished dress shoes and purple suede leather jackets.

Most recently, Chalamet managed to trump Hollywood's most glamorous women in the most-talked-about outfit stakes at this year's Golden Globes. The 23-year-old wore a custom Louis Vuitton "beaded bib" (read: not a harness) by the brand’s creative director Virgil Abloh that - along with Fiji Water girl - immediately blew up on social media. The “mid-layer garment”, as the designer’s description continued on his personal Instagram, marks Chalamet as one to watch, off-screen as well as on.

Ezra Miller made a name for himself in the film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin in 2011, and gained further success as Credence Barebone in the Fantastic Beasts films as well as being the first queer actor to land a superhero movie with his role as Flash in Justice League.

But it was during the press tour for the latest instalment of JK Rowling's Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (released in November 2018), that Miller really shifted into high gear on the red carpet. The actor, who identifies as non-binary, non-gendered and pan-sexual, wore a full-length black hooded padded gown by Pierpaolo Piccioli for Moncler x Valentino, with black lips; and the following week, a Givenchy all-white feathered cape, complete with silver eye make-up and frosted hair tips.

A trip to Tokyo for Kim Jones’ Dior menswear show became another high-fashion moment for Miller, who wore a satin white lab coat with a blossom pattern by the brand – an homage to the host nation – accessorised with a champagne glass-cum-pen and (what else?) a clipboard.

Even the less avant garde looks – a patchwork leather jacket for CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund 15th anniversary in Brooklyn, for example – are evidence of the 26-year-old's uniquely fearless approach to style.

Being a scion of the Smith empire may have put Jaden on the track to showbiz success from birth, but the American rapper/songwriter/actor has also carved out something of a niche in the fashion world.

Throughout his teens, the now-20-year-old honed an androgynous, gender-fluid style – opting for loose, baggy tops, skinny jeans and the latest sneakers. This has made him hot property for big-name brands willing to subvert the industry’s existing gender narrative. He wore a Chanel couture look to the 2016 Met Gala, and Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquière chose him as the face of the brand’s SS16 campaign, in which he donned a skirt alongside models Jean Campbell, Rianne Van Rompaey and Sarah Brannon.

For someone whose creative output touches on topics as grave as racial inequality and police brutality, writer/actor Donald Glover – and his musical alter-ego, Childish Gambino – doesn’t take himself too seriously on the style front.

At red carpet events, Glover’s go-to suits are imbued with a playful nostalgia: brown velvet two-pieces with wide lapels reminiscent of the '70s funk era, courtesy of Alessandro Michele’s Gucci; 1'80s-style purple patterned suits from Burberry; and orange satin Dolce & Gabbana at the Black Panther premiere.

The Glover-Gucci partnership extends as far as the lyrics for his hit "This Is America" (“Look how I'm geekin' out (hey) / I'm so fitted (I'm so fitted, woo) / I'm on Gucci (I'm on Gucci)”), and its metaphor-filled music video which sees him in canary yellow Princetown loafers (and not much else).

Rami Malek has come a long way since small supporting roles in the Night at the Museum trilogy and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II. The 37-year-old actor’s breakout role in the Mr. Robot series saw him become a household name, and he has since received critical acclaim and a Best Actor Golden Globe for his performance as Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

The cover star for the launch issue of GQ Middle East switches between a muted colour palette with checked accents and the occasional unexpected twist; think a pink Prada suit with black racing stripe at the Miu Miu AW19 womenswear show.

Kai[#image: /photos/5d54482ce7ec9b0008b1f7fb]

Kim Jongin, better known as K-pop star Kai from the Seoul-based South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo, is arguably the face of the group, and was chosen to perform a solo set at the Pyeongchang Olympics closing ceremony.

It’s no surprise given the frequency with which he treats his 4.7 million Instagram followers to images of him in all things Gucci that he never misses a front row. At the brand’s 2018 resort show, Kai arrived in a red wool checked suit and leather brogues from the AW18 men’s collection, paired with a maroon V-neck and blue striped shirt. The pop star accessorised with a crystal-embellished headband with additional drapes that pushed back his signature fringe (a Gen Z update on the curtains so beloved by '90s boy bands).

A$AP Rocky[#image: /photos/5d54482cd9c06a0008db2e82]

A$AP Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, has championed high-end designer looks since the early days of his career. The rapper-producer’s 2013 hit "Fashion Killa" namechecked every brand from Prada and Dolce & Gabbana, to Escada and Balenciaga.

Once a devotee of an all-American wardrobe filled with Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, A$AP Rocky has moved towards the European fashion houses of late, into the welcoming arms of Dior, Gucci and Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton.

Luka Sabbat[#image: /photos/5d54482cea07410008b92d5f]

Since appearing in Kanye West’s Yeezy x Adidas show in 2015, Luka Sabbat has risen in the style stakes – which is ironic, he says on his website, given that he “hated the camera and fashion growing up”.

Since, the model-cum-creative has landed campaigns for The Kooples, 7 For All Mankind and Dolce & Gabbana, as well as being photographed for American Vogue.