These Men Said No to Boring Tuxedos and Yes to Actually Having Style at the 2025 SAG Awards
Some men wore black tuxedos to the SAG Awards, but these five understood that fashion should be a little strange, a little risky, and never, ever boring
Another awards show, another parade of black tuxedos—except for a handful of men who actually understood the assignment.
The 2025 SAG Awards saw some real fashion moments, moments that didn’t just default to safe tailoring and patent leather shoes.
These were the men who dared to break free, who said no to the black tux industrial complex and instead gave us texture, color, and personality.
Timothée Chalamet
Timmy showed up looking like a rockstar cowboy on a Milan runway, and somehow, it worked.
A brat-green leather ensemble from Chrome Hearts made him look like the kind of guy who smokes hand-rolled cigarettes outside a Parisian jazz bar but also knows how to code.
The bolo tie? A perfect touch of Western weirdness. The fact that he won Best Actor in this look just cements his status as the guy who gets away with anything.
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Jeremy Strong
You’d expect Jeremy, method-dressing king, to pull up in something cerebral. And he did.
He wore a custom Haans Nicholas Mott linen ensemble that looked effortlessly refined, the kind of suit that suggests long conversations about art and the quiet luxury of perfectly wrinkled fabric.
Drew Starkey
Valentino dressed Drew, but that red scarf did all the talking.
Styled as a tie, it turned what could have been a standard formal look into something almost cinematic, like he walked out of a European arthouse film about a tortured artist.
It’s the kind of styling risk we wish more men would take—because accessories can (and should) be the main character.
Colman Domingo
Colman continues to be one of the best-dressed men on the planet.
In Valentino, he served structured elegance—a cream blazer, black trousers with an extended hem, and a silky inner scarf.
But the detail that sealed the deal was the tiny bows on his shoes. They were barely there but entirely intentional, a flex in restraint and detail.
Colman proves once again that menswear, sometimes, is about the small and thoughtful whispers.
Tyler James Williams
Tyler James walked in wearing a relaxed-fit wine-red suit with dramatic shoulders from Louis Gabriel Nouchi.
It was bold without being loud, sharp but not stiff. The color was deep and intoxicating—the kind of red you sip slowly at a moody bar.
Final thoughts? More of this, please
There will always be black tuxes, and that’s fine.
But these men proved that risk-taking in menswear is not only possible but necessary.
The future of men’s red carpet fashion belongs to the ones who try, the ones who experiment, the ones who understand that style should be a little chaotic. And to that, we say: keep going.
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