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Stealing Onscreen Styles: Clive Owen In Closer

Stealing Onscreen Styles: Clive Owen In Closer

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A night at the movies presents plenty to be skeptical about: outrageous premises, convenient plot coincidences and suspiciously swift clean resolutions. Then there are the characters themselves: largely happily-employed, well-balanced individuals who also happen to be perfectly coiffed and impeccably dressed.

As far as the narrative contrivances are concerned, you're just going to have keep suspending your disbelief. As regards the wardrobe department, however,'s fashion writers have taken it upon themselves to bring things back down to reality. Our newest Fashion Tip feature will target specific film characters in specific scenes, and break down exactly how they pull off their unique looks. We won't take the easy way out and point you to the same absurdly-priced ensemble that wardrobe equipped them with; instead, we'll guide you toward assembling the same style without an accompanying cash hemorrhage.

Our choice of fashion-theft targets? Those characters that our readers have deemed to be the most stylish. This week's target? The ever-suave Brit, Clive Owen.

this week's onscreen style swipe

The Film: 2004's Closer, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Clive Owen, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, and Natalie Portman.

The Scene: While meeting in the restaurant in London's National Portrait Gallery, Larry (Owen) parlays his ex's (Roberts) desperation to finalize their divorce into one final romp in the sack. Of course, being the dapper chap he is, one final romp turns into a revived romance. By Closer's standards of romance, that is.

The Style: How does Larry convert long-simmering resentment into lust? The good looks and debonair accent help. But the three-buttoned, notch-lapelled suit and jacquard stripe silk tie (assembled by costume designer Ann Roth) certainly don't hurt.

how to look like clive

Ermenegildo Zegna Suit at - Credit:

Ermenegildo Zegna Suit

Just like Clive's, here's a navy blue suit that's classic in every sense of the word: three-button, notch-lapelled, slim-fit, with a double-vented back. The pants are flat-front, as all good pants should be, and the lightweight cotton material makes this get-together a versatile one.

Sure, you won't be able to pronounce the name of the designer upon demand, but if you can mangle it through an Owen-style gravelly accent, she won't even notice.

How to mimic what Clive is wearing under that sharp suit...

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