Men never look better than when they are doing their own thing in a well-worn pair of jeans and their favourite tee, however, none can deny the power of a sharply cut suit. Republic by Omar Farooq designs for the fashion forward man without compromising on personal style. As Omar Farooq himself puts it, clothes for men are more about style than fashion.

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One doesn't need to be perfectly coiffed and manicured to within an inch of oneself to wear a suit though, take your cur from model Abbas Jafri, who accessories his ivory outfit with a wild beard and full head of hair.
Mohib Mirza wore a black Emraan Rajput sherwani on the LSA red carpet last year. The sherwani is Eastern menswear's elegant contender to the suit. Sherwanis get a lot of bad rap for being wedding-wear, and decades of cream, shimmery, worked sherwanis make us associate them with the traditional Pakistani groom. Switch up the colour and taper the cut a bit though, and you have a pretty sexy ensemble at hand.

We must not forget Neil Patrick Harris' How I Met Your Mother character Barney Stinson, who gave men of the world the best fashion advice ever: when in doubt, 'suit up!' Harris himself is a sharp dresser, and though his red carpet looks are hardly ever revolutionary, he wears lean trousers and sharp collars and looks good, which is all you want from a formal look, anyway.