As his career leapt from indie dramas to blockbuster franchises, the actor quietly built one of Hollywood's most compelling menswear wardrobes.
A torn shoulder is a strange place for a fashion story to begin, but Nicholas Galitzine's begins there. Hammersmith, September 1994: a City financier's son and a Greek-American mother, raised Greek Orthodox under a surname borrowed from the Russian princely House of Golitsyn—borrowed being the word, since the documented paternal line is stubbornly British and the royal bit is more pub legend than parish record. He was a Dulwich College rugby boy, county standard, the Harlequins academy in his sights, until a run of rotator-cuff tears took the sport off the table around 17. He taught himself guitar and turned to acting instead. For a decade, he stayed the one you half-recognized and couldn't place: opposite Luke Perry in The Beat Beneath My Feet, a violinist in High Strung, a closeted rugby player in Handsome Devil, a prince in Cinderella.
Then the climb went vertical. Purple Hearts (2022) became the most-watched film on Netflix that year; a year on, Red, White & Royal Blue topped charts in countries he'd never set foot in. By 2024, between Mary & George and The Idea of You, the name finally stuck. Fashion kept pace, starting when Fendi made him its first global menswear ambassador in 2023. Emporio Armani followed with a fragrance deal in 2024. And stylist Felicity Kay, the mastermind behind Paul Mescal's fashion evolution, took the carpets in hand on a premise that sounds plainer than it plays: classic menswear, one thing knocked off true. An odd shoe. A bloom embroidered somewhere a bloom has no business being.
The latest chapter rebuilt him from the frame out. To play He-Man in this year's Masters of the Universe, Galitzine put himself under David Kingsbury—the trainer who's bulked Chris Hemsworth and Ryan Reynolds for their superhero turns—for the better part of a year: 4,000 to 5,000 calories a day, three-hour weight sessions done fasted and then straight onto the stunt floor, until the director, Travis Knight, pronounced the man in front of him "a totally different dude." He isn't pausing to admire it. A Red, White & Royal Blue sequel is moving, and he's booked opposite Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson in Amazon MGM's Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective. What follows is the wardrobe that tracked the whole improbable climb, from a Sundance step-and-repeat to Fendi's front row, frame by frame.
In one of his first public appearances, Galitzine sports a slim electric-blue suit, white shirt and skinny charcoal tie—the going uniform for a rising actor circa 2016. None of it looks expensive or especially interesting, but the fit is sharp and the blue pops on a red carpet.

Two months later, he enters the full plaid-blazer-and-knit-tie routine, wearing a gray-and-black check wool jacket over a white shirt, with a burgundy tie and oxblood monk straps to match. It is Savile Row by way of a rental shop, earnest and a little fusty, the look of someone who Googled "how to dress for a premiere" and, to be fair, mostly nailed it.

At Italy's Giffoni youth film festival that July, the blazer-and-Converse “smart casual” compromise—a navy jacket over a plain white tee, cuffed jeans and battered Chuck Taylors, a single red pocket square thrown in for credibility.

Same film, different country (High Strung went out as Free Dance in Europe), as he shows up in the tie-with-distressed-denim thing. This was peak 2016, the sartorial equivalent of a side-swept fringe, and he commits to it completely.

Three years on, at the Sundance premiere of Share, the snow-festival starter pack—a navy ribbed rollneck, dark jeans and lace-up duck boots. It is dressed down on purpose and completely sensible.

Parked in the Sundance Festival's Pizza Hut portrait lounge, the actor shows off in a black leather biker jacket over a cobalt-blue rollneck. No stylist nor a fashion house yet, just a good leather jacket and the time-honored hope that wearing one makes you look a little like James Dean.

At the New York premiere of the Netflix horror series Chambers, Galitzine arrives in a camel overcoat over an oatmeal knit, navy trousers and brown Chelsea boots. It is the most grown-up outfit in his arsenal so far, tonal and faintly professorial, an early sketch of the direction he'd take another five years to fully trust.

For the 2021 Cinderella premiere, in which he played the prince, the actor wore a fire-engine-red ribbed blazer over a black satin shirt and black trousers from Saint Laurent. Two years before Fendi came calling, this is Galitzine going for impact the obvious way—with color—and mostly getting there.

His first real Fendi moment, at the house's Milan men's show—the soft-launch before they made it official with the ambassador title later in 2023. They put him in an oversized black leather biker jacket over a gray shirt and tie, with a brown bag slung on the hip, the whole thing big and glossy and clearly the start of a courtship.

That June, at Fendi's SS24 men's show in the gardens of its Florence factory, a matching denim co-ord printed all over with a cracked, tile-like FF motif. Sneakers and wraparound shades keep it loose, the ambassador era figuring out how to do daylight.

For the Academy Museum Gala, a custom Fendi black-tie look scattered with paillettes and finished with a frayed, raw hem. All black on black, the sparkle catching light only when he moved—about as close as his classic-menswear streak comes to a disco ball.

At Fendi's fall 2024 men's show—he was fronting the campaign by then—a gray suede safari jacket with a belt-loop collar over a plain white tee, black FF-monogram trousers and pointed boots.

Black tie with one liberty taken—the jacket's lapel sweeps across the chest in a single curve where a notch should be. Everything else stays standard-issue (white shirt, slim black tie, patent shoes and a rectangular watch), which is why the curve is the first thing you clock.

For the SXSW premiere of his romance film co-starring Anne Hathaway, it was an oatmeal pinstripe Giorgio Armani double-breasted suit, soft in the shoulder, over a black shirt left open halfway down the chest. The undone collar keeps a boardroom cut from looking fresh from a stakeholders meeting.

For the Mary & George premiere, he went for an enormous Coach tuxedo jacket with duchess-satin lapels, worn open and unbuttoned over a pale green shirt, with a silver brooch pinned at the chest. The proportions run big—long sleeves, dropped shoulders, trousers pooling at the shoe—louche in a way that suits a series about court seduction.

For the New York leg of the same press tour, he opted for a custom Fendi charcoal flannel double-breasted suit over a pale blue shirt, collar open, no tie.

For the Met's garden theme, he arrived in a custom Fendi black tuxedo with tonal floral embroidery climbing the satin lapel and jacket front: the dress code answered without shouting. Black pointed boots instead of dress shoes are the one off-note in an otherwise classic tux.

Galitzine turned up to motorsport's glossiest weekend—Charles LeClerc's home race, the one the Monégasque would go on to win from pole—dressed like he was headed to a beach-club lunch instead, in a washed chambray shirt, cream pleated shorts and suede Birkenstock clogs that frankly had no business anywhere near an F1 paddock.

By the Fendi men's show, he'd gone platinum blond, and he wore the label's oversized indigo denim overshirt—contrast topstitching and all—over a white shirt and a green-and-orange striped tie. The denim-and-tie thing splits the difference between prep and workwear; navy trousers and silver-buckled black loafers do the rest, but honestly, the hair is more striking than the clothes.

Two years on, the paddock nonchalance has hardened into something almost monkish. He fronts the Emporio Armani fragrance now, and he came to the show in head-to-toe Armani greige—a collarless ribbed jacket buttoned right to the throat, matching wide-leg trousers and chunky black loafers, all of it tonal enough that he nearly dissolves into the concrete wall behind him. It's the Armani idea of tailoring in miniature, soft-shouldered and a little ascetic, the opposite of a logo.

The promo tour swaps the monastery for the matinee. The heavy lifting goes to a black leather blouson in archival Giorgio Armani: shirt collar, knit cuffs, all zipped down to a snug waistband, with the leather every leading man comes around to eventually, worn over pale gray pleated trousers and polished black shoes.

For the New York screening, Galitzine reaches back to the 1980s trading floor. It's a charcoal chalk-stripe double-breasted with peak lapels and six buttons, pure mergers-and-acquisitions—Gordon Gekko sent out to promote a toy franchise. The bedhead hair gives him away, though—the kid who lost rugby is still in there somewhere, under all that grown-up tailoring.

Off the carpet, the styling still doesn't switch off. Galitzine sticks with tonal navy top to bottom—an Armani cropped zip blouson over high-waisted, wide-leg trousers that puddle onto black derbies—a silhouette that belongs on a 1950s studio backlot more than a Manhattan sidewalk.

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