POP CULTURE’S BEST FALL AND WINTER FASHION

Our favorite fall/winter styles from movies and TV

There’s perhaps no easier way to learn how to dress than through imitation—and perhaps no easier way to imitate than to watch a lot of movies and TV. We’re always looking to our favorite characters for fashion advice, and whether it’s the slim-fit suiting of Don Draper or the magisterial sensibility of Hannibal Lecter, the advice often proves invaluable. It’s with this in mind that we decided to take a closer look at one fashion challenge in particular: dressing for the season. And so here are our favorite fall and winter looks from the best place to find them: on TV and at the movies.

Jack Torrance - The Shining

As the deranged and dangerous Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson really lets loose: by the time he’s swinging axes through doorways you feel as though he’s capable of anything. But before madness takes hold, Jack seems a more stable presence, smooth-talking his way through an interview at the Overlook Hotel with considerable poise. It helps that he's come in style: that thick knit tie looks perfectly contemporary, and the combination of patterns, colors, and textures shows the madman still has an impeccable eye.

Poor Carl Showalter. Steve Buscemi's harried, bumbling kidnapper-turned-murderer can never catch a break in Fargo, messing up his plan every step of the way before getting shot across the cheek and winding up crammed into a woodchipper. Still: what an incredible winter coat! (The turtleneck isn’t half bad either.) As we always say, if you’re going to get brutally murdered in the middle of a North Dakota winter, you might as well do it in style.

It’s no secret that as Dale Cooper, Kyle Maclachlan is the FBI’s smoothest special agent—that’s what an attention to detail will do for you. But while his usual get-up on assignment in the town of Twin Peaks is the straightforward—though still stylish—black suit that is the agency’s uniform, his fall-ready wardrobe also boasts a killer beige trench and the occasional wool flannel shirt.

In Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Steve Martin plays a snooty Wall Street type finding it next to impossible to get home for the holidays. Even though he’s usually seen in the high-end designer suits you’d expect of a guy like that, it’s his partner in the adventure, the hapless Del Griffith, who gets our vote for best dressed. The gloves, the hat, the ear muffs—it’s too perfect, and worn by the big-hearted John Candy (RIP), we can't resist.

Well, obviously: it’s Colin Farrell, and by the Colin Farrell Always Looks Awesome principle it’s a given that, yes, he looks awesome here, too. As Ray, Farrell is a down on his luck Irish hitman patiently awaiting punishment after bungling an assignment. But just because he’s playing out an existential riff that would make Samuel Beckett proud doesn’t mean he can’t rock an awesome winter jacket, as he clearly does here.

There’s winter in the movies, and then there’s winter in The Thing. This is sub-zero, middle of the Antarctic stuff, and Kurt Russell’s bundled up MacReady has the wardrobe to prove it. But rather than lumbering around in an unwieldy get-up, MacReady kicks alien ass as we should all like to: in an impeccable combination of winter-ready layers, topped off with a killer leather jacket. Check out men clothing coupons 

Most of us remember John McClane in the stripped-down (literally) ensemble made iconic in the first Die Hard: no socks or shoes ( check out discount shoes coupon codes at here ), plain white tank, dirt and blood all over. Die Hard 2 retains the Christmas setting of its predecessor, but shifts the action to an airport that has Bruce Willis crawling and shooting around outside too much to go sleeveless. Thus, we get a classic chunky sweater in oatmeal—the perfect look for this season and totally on-trend.