Jeremy Irons Stealing Every Scene in ‘Munich: The Edge of War’

I’m a Jeremy Irons fan, not only because he’s a good actor (and Oscar winner) but also because I love his sense of style. I met him at a social function once and complimented him on his brown, tall lace-up boots. Since then, I’ve seen the same boots in pictures of him and his wife, actress Sinead Cusack, attending events or simply getting snapped by the paparazzi. In the pictures, he’s never over or underdressed, and the boots he so often wears always look on point.

Whether by coincidence or not, he’s played some rather stylish characters on-screen as well. In Brideshead Revisited, he wore 1920s-era tweed suits, sweaters tied ever so casually over crisp cotton long-sleeved shirts, ties stuffed behind cashmere sweaters and sporty wide-brimmed fedoras. While he may have left the tweed behind after the role, Irons has kept the casual chic look of sweaters tied around his shoulders and designer scarves around his neck; a look that is just as contemporary now as it was then. Ever see Irons in sunglasses? He wore a sweet pair of retro hexagonal ones with wire frames for his role as the villain Simon in Die Hard with a Vengeance. On him, bad never looked so good. Off-screen, Irons is often seen in various shades, including Ray-Ban classic aviators, reddish-brown-tinted sunglasses and in wire-framed, rectangular-shaped Donna Karans. He did a fashion campaign for the brand back in 2013.

Irons does regular eyeglasses just as well. He wore Moscot Lemtosh eyewear in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Old Focals J.D. tortoise shells as Alfred Pennyworth in his Justice League roles. While he most likely wore Gucci eyeglasses for his role in The House of Gucci, the frame shapes also look like Elite Maurice. Either way, he nails it.

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Sometimes Irons’ screen style crosses over with his own. The actor has been known to take home a few pieces from the set or add pieces to his character’s wardrobe. “I mostly wear clothes of my own because I don't like new clothes. If I'm very like the character, it's easier to use my own clothes, because it's important for a character's clothes to look worn, and secondhand clothes rarely fit,” he said in an interview with In Style.

And this isn’t the only time he’s collaborated with film designers and stylists to get the right look for a character. The evil pope in The Borgias, as the shady socialite in Reversal of Fortune (for which he was awarded the best actor Oscar), an uneasy journalist in Chinese Box, Alfred in Batman vs. Superman, the mathematician in The Man Who Knew Infinity, a musketeer in The Man in the Iron Mask and a concerned father in The House of Gucci are just a few of the characters Irons has portrayed and also helped to sartorially characterize. “You know you’ve got the right look,” Irons told Men’s Journal, “because you stop thinking about it.”

For Netflix’s Munich: The Edge of War, he wears thinly rimmed round spectacles, an array of robes, tails or suit jackets and overcoats to portray the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain. Suit jackets are long, something Irons has worn out and about and on red carpets. He’s teamed them with formal tuxedos, with shirts and vests, bow ties, boots and even sneakers (to the Oscars one year, yep).

At this point, the internet is filled with articles on his style, what he wears, what he says about it and it always fascinates. While his acting has brought him much acclaim (he is this close to an EGOT), Irons fans love his clothing choices. For example, the retro plaid robe he wears in Munich is a must-have for fashionistas. His Avellaneda costume from The Pink Panther 2 was auctioned off. T-shirts depicting Irons in famous roles as well as sexy headshots can also be found on a retailer website and the vintage looks of Irons characters are in high demand, with sites like 1stdibs.com offering high-end antiques and retro clothes matching the era of a particular character Irons has played.

And just when it seems learning more about this talented clotheshorse can’t get any better, it turns out he also likes to go clothes shopping with his wife and sometimes help her pick out clothes (maybe the worst thing for some, a romantic gesture for others). The couple have been photographed shopping together although Irons admits she doesn’t always want him to. He told In Style, “Now we’re sort of midway, she buys some things, and I buy some things for her.” Feel free to buy some things for my closet, Jeremy! Photo illustration source images: Getty and Everett