Jack Wolfe is feeling comfortable on the Front Row

Jack Wolfe has been lying low. "I was able to spend the whole year pretty much focusing on one project, which was Next To Normal, and then it came to an end, and I went into hibernation," the burgeoning actor told Gentleman's Journal on a Sunday afternoon from The Zetter Townhouse during London fashion week. In a few hours he'll be attending KENT&CURWEN's Autumn/Winter 2025 show, sitting on the front row at the brand's Westminster location. "Since the beginning of the year I've been doing life things and now I'm attending fashion week, which is really fun."

Wolfe, who grew up between Wakefield, Yorkshire, and New Quay on the West Welsh coast and trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, made a name for himself as a stage actor circa 2017, with a role as Danny in Pinnochio at The National and in The Magician's Elephant at the Royal Shakespeare Company. "I've always really wanted to be part of this world, if that makes sense," he said, explaining that when he was 18 he "basically ran away to London to pursue it. It wasn't even necessarily that I wanted to be an actor. It was that I just wanted to be making things and be part of the creative process of it all."

As well as developing his stage acting chops, he has also taken on a plethora of television gigs, from the portrayal of Wylan in Netflix’s fantastical Shadow and Bone to a role in The Magic Flute.

In short, he's had a busy few years, and while he's got some upcoming film projects that he can't disclose, he's happy for this momentary pause. "I'm focusing on some writing, and just keeping my brain at work. That and walking lots. I love walking."

He's also pretty hyped that he gets to head to fashion week in his downtime, although he's feeling a lot better about it now than he has in previous years. "I went to the Saint Laurent show a few years ago," he says. "It was so intimidating! I sat next to Dixie D'Amelio. It was in Paris. It was so wild. And that was my first experience of fashion week."

Wolfe's formative years were spent in the aforementioned Wakefield, where he says he didn't have access to fashion with a capital F. "I've always had my own personal connection to fashion, and to sort of personal style," he says. "I've never really known how to interpret it or what the words are. I grew up in West Yorkshire and, while there's a lot of very cool people around there, access to fashion and fashion shows is non-existent." His first memories of getting into fashion were down to one of his friends back home. "My friend Imogen Badrock in Bradford introduced me to vintage shopping and we'd go to Leeds, to the Corn Exchange, or when I lived in Manchester for a year, we were going to Affleck's Palace and rifling through vintage stores."

Today he feels he's found his uniform, due in part to his crossed experiences living in multiple cities, as well as his career. "Part of the reason I'm so excited about the KENT&CURWEN show is because I'd also say that my personal style is reflected in the clothing that the brand does. KENT&CURWEN really achieves this sort of upturned academia thing, as if the wearers have snuck into a school dining hall." For the show, Wolfe, who could easily pass off as one of the models who walked, wore a burgundy short suit from the Spring/Summer 2025 collection, which riffed on his own grown-up-meets-kid style.

Wolfe is hopefuly that he will get to do more of the fashion week stuff. "I really, really love it," he says. "I love having the chance to develop my style and relationships with designers and to just learn about the process and how that has sort of impacted the way that I dress. Fashion shows are such an opportunity."

It's likely this won't be his last time at a show. Today the front rows at the biggest brands are filled with actors, blossoming and established, and with more in the pipeline - "I've been training for an upcoming role that I'm super excited about" - Wolfe is deserving of a spot. That, and because he looks great in clothes.

Photography by James Anastasi

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