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Lifestyle | Fashion The Evening Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Who wants the Gareth Southgate look? The England manager might have quietened his critics following the Lions’ victory over the Netherlands last night, but the verdict is still out on his Euros 2024 style.

As football fans well know, Southgate is a man of uniform. Following the footsteps of Mark Zuckerberg, Coco Chanel, Steve Jobs and Fran Lebowitz, it is in his consistency that he finds his sartorial strength. 2018’s waistcoat fever , which erupted thanks to his constant sporting of a three-piece suit, was something to behold — a £65 M&S number which went on to rocket off the shelves.



Fashion certainly followed his lead on this front; the waistcoat is the cement-staple of summer 2024 wardrobes (see: The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri, Gigi Hadid, Uma Thurman etc). Did the Watford-born, former Middlesbrough player, make it on the Bottega Veneta moodboard? There’s no denying his role as contemporary pioneer of the fad, anyhow. And as any good influencer knows, when the masses start adopting a trend — it’s time to move onto the next.

So behold Southgate’s aggressively smart casual new era (anyone in mourning for his Savile Row-inflicted getup need only head to James Graham's Olivier-Award winning smash-hit play Dear England , where it is memorialised). Also from M&S — official tailor to the England team since.

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