Anthony Boyle On His “Slick Rick” Look For A Hot Boy-Packed Saint Laurent Show

Once upon a time, for Anthony Boyle, “fashion” meant “tracksuits, tracksuits, tracksuits”. Growing up in Belfast, he says, Boxing Day was traditionally earmarked for showing off the brand new Adidas tracksuit you’d unwrapped on Christmas morning. Perhaps it was all good practice for facing the paps at Paris Fashion Week, which the 31-year-old star of House of Guinness and Say Nothing finds himself doing more and more often these days.

The 31-year-old was among the guests at Anthony Vaccarello’s autumn/winter 2026 menswear show in Paris on Tuesday night, where being a genetically-blessed rising actor with a rabid online fan base appeared to be an unofficial requirement for entry. (Boyle took his spot on the front row alongside The Summer I Turned Pretty breakout Christopher Briney and not one but three of the Heated Rivalry boys.) “When I first started to come to fashion weeks I was like… I haven’t a clue what’s going on here,” says Anthony, speaking from his Paris hotel room ahead of the show. “But it’s funny, you’ll be genuinely moved by really beautiful collections.”

Boyle compares it to witnessing someone at the top of their game in any field. “You don’t have to be into football to appreciate Lionel Messi,” he points out. “Or if you sit there and watch This is England – you don’t need to know anything about film to really feel it.” If his early responses to fashion were instinctive, the chance to properly immerse himself since coming to the industry’s attention has been “very cool”.

It has also been an opportunity to refine his personal style. Adidas trackies aside, the actor knows what he likes. “It’s that timeless thing, classic and masculine,” he says, mentioning names like Marlon Brando and James Dean. With a “mafia” edge. For the Saint Laurent show, high-waisted black trousers worn with a shirt and skinny tie and a leather bomber fit the bill, especially when topped off with every screen idol’s after-dark essential: aviator sunnies.

Most recently seen as Arthur Guinness in Steven Knight’s blockbuster Netflix series, Boyle is part of a new wave of Irish talent that has permeated pretty much every part of the culture over the past few years, from music to literature to film to fashion. On the latter front, the actor made sure to do his bit to support the efforts of his fellow countrymen while in Paris – not at Dior, where Magherafelt’s Jonathan Anderson just presided over a dream-like couture debut, but over on Rue du Bourg l’Abbé in the 3rd, where the Irish-owned independent streetwear brand Storefront is hosting a pop-up this week. “It’s run by these lads from Derry and they’re brilliant,” says Boyle, by now hanging out of a window with his phone and a glass of white wine in search of better reception. “Their stuff is really cool.”

He’s also brought a piece of home with him to Paris – his mate Connor. Having bonded as two of the only boys at an all-girls school in Belfast (“an experiment where they invited 15 of the worst-behaved local lads to attend,” Boyle has said), Connor is now the actor’s preferred fashion week wingman. “He’s the only one I wanna bring,” says Boyle, whose feet should stay safely on the ground if he keeps surrounding himself with people who knew him before the Olivier nomination. His old friend took one look at his Saint Laurent ensemble and pronounced him “slick Rick”, Boyle says. “He also asked Linda Evangelista what she did for a living…”