Anyone can put on a suit, but pulling off the aesthetic and attitude of Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen isn’t just about impeccable taste — it’s about bringing swagger and confidence wherever you go.

In Season 2 of the action drama, style and substance both matter as the stakes are ratcheted up. Eddie Horniman (Theo James) and Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario) expand their criminal enterprise far beyond the gates of Halstead Manor. The new season moves between English estates, London power centers, and the shores of Northern Italy, bringing with it bespoke tailoring, vintage pieces, statement jewelry, classic vehicles for all terrains, and outerwear perfect for a hunt.

“Style’s a big part of the show,” James tells Tudum. “Guy is an incredibly stylish dude and an incredibly visual director. So we will talk about collar shapes on shirts, patterns, colors, buttons.”  For costume designer Loulou Bontemps, Season 2 was a chance to let the wardrobe evolve along with the characters. If the first season was the “baby version,” she says, this one is “the adolescent, the teenager version” — savvier, more mature, and capable of way more trouble.

So what does it take to move through the world like you own the estate, the plane, and an international empire? Criminal activity aside, consider this your guide to living like The Gentlemen.

1

Dress for the occasion.

Or in other words, read the room.

“I think a true British gentleman will dress for the occasion,” Bontemps says. Everyday life might call for a blazer and trousers. A formal event could require a two- or three-piece suit. A day in the country comes with an entirely different uniform. “If he is going to special occasions and he wants to be a bit naughty, maybe he’ll be wearing a smoking jacket instead of black tie,” she says.

Eddie’s style is not just about owning the right clothes but knowing the moves he’ll make while wearing them. In Season 2, his goals require him to enter corridors of power and criminal spaces without ever looking like he wandered in through the wrong door.

The British staples remain — impeccable suits, structured coats, polished shoes — but the man inside them has changed. Bontemps puts Eddie in braces (aka, suspenders) more often this season, giving his tailoring a sharper silhouette.

2

You’ve leveled up, now dress like it.

Susie doesn’t come from the aristocracy the way Eddie does, so her money doesn’t necessarily whisper.

Susie’s wardrobe combines luxury labels, bold prints, archive fashion, and vintage pieces. Her chosen accessories, like everything else, are strategic: towering heels, enormous earrings, headscarves, handbags, and oversized sunglasses designed to create what Bontemps calls a “power play.”

“Susie, from the beginning, was this femme fatale gangster,” says Bontemps. “She is that girl in all of us that wants to play dress up, but can. It’s a little bit more mature, it’s a little bit more bougie in Season 2 because she’s doing well and she’s branched out a little bit.”

Not even a sauna can make her surrender the armor. Scodelario and the costume team reasoned that Susie would still have a Chanel towel, earrings, lashes, and every other element required to look in control. At one point, they even devised “a Birkin within a Birkin.”

3

Do leisure, not lazy.

At Halstead, “casual” is a relative term.

The season opens with a country shoot that Bontemps says required particular attention to detail. Every guest needed to look as though they belonged at the same event, but no two characters could arrive in exactly the same way. Eddie, naturally, demonstrates how it’s done.

His look includes bespoke braces, detailed socks, brogues, and knitwear. The wide, below-the-knee shooting trousers had to be handmade because, Bontemps says, “they don’t exist” in the form the production wanted. She calls them “plus-12s,” a take on the better-known “plus-fours”— referring to how far the hem hangs below the knees.

The retro-meets-modern swagger is also quintessentially Ritchie.

4

Let color do the talking.

Eddie may know when to blend in, but he is no longer dressing like a man expecting to be hidden. And the color story he’s telling communicates to the world that he means business.

There are splashes of red in Eddie’s wardrobe this season — a choice intended to convey some fiery emotions bubbling beneath the tweed.

5

When in Italy, loosen up.

The Gentlemen has always celebrated English eccentricity, but Season 2 takes the high life abroad. Eddie and Susie’s operation has expanded into Northern Italy, giving the production a chance to trade some British structure for Mediterranean romance.

“We leant on a lot of those Italian shapes, brands, silks, and cottons, also the colors,” says James. Eddie’s tailoring becomes looser and more relaxed — revealing a more decadent version of the duke emerging under the Italian sun.

6

Pack heavy for the private jet.

Susie, meanwhile, lands ready for a full cinematic transformation. “She’s instantly wearing leopard print the second she lands in Italy,” Scodelario says. “She’s gone full Dolce & Gabbana.” And even for a wedding that’s not her own, she’s not going to pull back.

Bontemps drew on Monica Bellucci, Italian mob-wife glamour, ’80s and ’90s prints, vintage fur, headscarves, and giant sunglasses. The result is luxury that definitely doesn’t lower its voice.

Travel can broaden the wardrobe. Eddie becomes looser in Italy; Susie frees herself to try on a new persona.

7

Own your swagger.

For all its estates, tailoring, boats, bags, and slick rides, The Gentlemen’s real aspiration is not wealth. It’s knowing you belong where you are.

Vinnie Jones, who plays Halstead’s fiercely loyal groundskeeper, Geoff, says that looking right is essential to finding a character: “Guy will just say, ‘Vin knows his character, he can wear what he wants.’” Scodelario describes Susie’s clothes as a huge part of her storytelling: “It’s part of her armor and helps us as an audience understand how in control she is or isn’t.” And James sees Ritchie’s attention to the smallest sartorial detail as proof of his commitment to the storytelling: “I appreciate that because, as an actor, I think if someone’s detail-orientated, then that means they’re highly invested in the characters.”