Blame algorithms, blame Gen-Z’s obsession with “authenticity,” blame the truth that the world more and more resembles an AI-generated model of Van Eyck’s “The Final Judgement,” however there are extraordinarily few younger celebrities folks really care about anymore–stars who merely have to point out up someplace and stay sentient for folks to wish to learn an article about it. The floppy-haired, unsettlingly toned exception to this rule? Package Connor.

Good factor, then, that the Heartstopper star popped as much as pose for paps outdoors Loewe’s fall 2024 menswear present in Paris at present—not an sudden flip of occasions, given {that a}) Connor is a buddy of Jonathan Anderson and b) that’s 90 per cent of what folks do at style week–however nonetheless, his look was met with many animated social media posts relating such issues as “his leather-based trench!”, “his Argyle knit!!”, and–most pressingly–“his face!!!!”

Hormone-induced TikTok hysteria apart, Connor’s relationship with Anderson might be essentially the most promising menswear alliance since Timothée met Haider or Harry met Alessandro. If the Netflix viewing public fell in love with Package in a Truham Grammar Excessive College uniform, style actually sat up and took discover of him when he started eschewing nondescript suiting for–forgive me, however there’s no different phrase–seems on the pink carpet, virtually all of them masterminded by the Loewe and JW Anderson inventive director.

There was a skintight T-shirt emblazoned with a Michael Clark-inspired print throughout London Trend Week final February; a shimmering periwinkle polo at Vogue World: London that felt slightly bit dad-with-a-lifelong-Wentworth-membership, slightly bit Elton John; and a pale citron hammered silk jacket with a Bradshaw-esque corsage on the Trend Awards in December.

For his half, Connor informed Vogue in a 2023 profile that his style icons have been James Dean, Marlon Brando and Paul Newman–though he’s clearly not afraid to stray from the all-American model template that that suggests. (Laborious to think about Brando getting a lot mileage out of the cardigan that Package slipped into at present.) After all, there’s a time and a spot for traditional tuxes and muscle T-shirts, classic 501s and moiré braces–however proper now, Connor’s greatest transfer may merely be dressing like nobody however himself.