The star who not only invests his millions in a move to the countryside, but also takes it upon himself to start dressing the part is a famously risible figure: superannuated rock stars with their trout farms and riding stables, the actor who spends his time at home got up like Cleggy from Last Of The Summer Wine. Not any more, at least according to L'Uomo Vogue Italia, which in its current issue devotes two pages to the pleasures of dressing in autumnal shades of tweed and corduroy, a flat cap perched on your head, complete with a photo of improbable style inspiration Guy Ritchie.
In fairness, there's been a trend for country dressing in the city for a while – east London fashionistas had a thing about Barbour jackets a while back – but this is a whole different level. It's worth noting that Italian Vogue is a law unto itself in the fashion world, not least because it runs a website called Vogue Curvy, celebrating the pulchritude of the more bosomy lady, albeit in terms that leave you scratching your head: "Maria Grazia Cucinotta, she's the most famous Mediterranean corporeality". Accordingly, the tweed-and-driving-cap thing appears under the heading The Look Of The Good Lad. The feature suggests you should wear it "dopolavoro": after work. The mind-boggling implication being that you might slip into something that makes you look like a country squire in the office toilets before heading out for an evening. Non credo, as I believe they say in Milan.
• Alexis wears gilet, £29, by Land's End. Shirt, jacket, cap and trousers, all from a selection, by Hackett, hackett.co.uk. Shoes, Alexis' own. Photograph: David Newby for the Guardian.
