THE CROWN
Netflix
“Make me into a British gentleman,” says Mohamed Al-Fayed (Salim Daw) to his new hire Sydney Johnson (Jude Akuwudike), the former longtime valet and footman to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Along with mentoring the billionaire on afternoon tea etiquette, Sydney takes Mohamed to the tailor for a pinstripe suit that’s literally fit for a king, albeit abdicated. “The Duke felt it gave him more stature in photographs,” says Sydney, gesturing toward a higher-waist cut on the double-breasted, peak lapel jacket.
But returning costume designer Amy Roberts, who won an Emmy for season three, explains that his aspirational suiting arc began much earlier. In 1946, enterprising teenage Mohamed (Amir El-Masry) sells Coca-Cola on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt. After spotting the Windsors visiting the British-occupied territory,…