Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2025 i GQ

As an NFL rookie, Travis Kelce often got asked why he celebrated every catch. “I’m in the NFL, dude! I love this shit!” Kelce recalled to September cover story writer Sean Manning. “That’s how I feel about writing profiles,” says Manning, who is Simon & Schuster’s publisher. Like Kelce, he’s an Ohio native and a lifelong Cavs fan. “To earn his favor and give me confidence,” he says, “I wore my prized 2016 championship tee.” Office Grails…

ONE GOOD BUY: A FLEECE THAT ACTUALLY FITS This month’s wardrobe upgrade from GQ.com’s team of shopping experts. Hit “Add to cart” pronto. When designer Spencer Phipps set out to reimagine the classic American wardrobe, it didn’t take him long to arrive at the fleece jacket. But unlike many drab, shapeless riffs, this cadmium-red Basecamp fleece pulls inspiration from brolic ski jackets, with nylon shoulder paneling and a bungee cord adjuster to lock in a precise fit. Toss it over a hooded sweatshirt, rugby, or flannel, or make like Phipps himself and wear it with all three. For more elite-level shopping intel sourced directly from the GQ brain trust, scan the code to subscribe to the Recommends newsletter.…

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WHEN I MEET Mark Ronson one afternoon in his New York City recording studio, Ronson—these days both a celebrated producer (Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa) and recording artist (“Uptown Funk,” “Valerie,” “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart”)—is just back from Shanghai. He was DJ’ing at a corporate black-tie event for the watch company Audemars Piguet, with which Ronson has an ongoing relationship. You might imagine after all his successes he would feel some license to handle an engagement like this on cruise control, but Ronson says no. Wherever he is, and whoever the people outside the DJ booth might be, and whyever they might be there, some of the same fundamental dynamics present themselves every single time. “You’re just looking at this room of people,” Ronson tells me,…

EARLIER THIS YEAR, as I emerged from a party and peeled off my tux jacket, one of the guys I was with said, “Whoa. What is going on with your shirt?” It was a plain white dress shirt, yet my friend clocked the difference: The fabric too crisp, the construction too dialed. That’s the power of Charvet (starting at $925 for a bespoke shirt). The French brand is widely considered the world’s first-ever shirtmaker, having initially set up shop off rue de Richelieu in 1838. Now on a ritzy corner of Paris’s Place Vendôme, they continue to craft shirts with old-world meticulousness, using paper patterns and clothespins. (At checkout, they still use a calculator.) Over your first visits, measurements are taken for a working prototype, allowing Charvet’s elegant shirt wizard Lorenzo…

IN 2023, THE watchmaker Sylvain Berneron launched his namesake brand with a bang. His Mirage—featuring an unusual warped shape and twisty hands—became a smash hit, selling out instantaneously and earning watch-of-the-year plaudits in the industry. According to Berneron, he could up his annual production of the Mirage five times over and still comfortably find a buyer for every piece. Now, Berneron is back with the sequel—though anyone hoping for more Dalí-esque curves will likely be disappointed. “It is the strict opposite of a Mirage,” he says of his latest creation, “which is either stupid or brave.” Whereas his debut defied expectations aesthetically, the new Quantième Annuel is downright old-fashioned at first glance, with a symmetrical round case and elegant dial layout. Despite its more traditional appearance, however, the Quantième Annuel is…

IN a dimly lit dining room in Miami, a waiter places a course of hamachi crudo in front of Travis Kelce. “We don’t get fresh fish like this in Kansas City,” Kelce says. We are sitting in a horseshoe-shaped booth, and Kelce’s voice can just be heard over that of the young woman on the restaurant’s stage, covering Sade’s “The Sweetest Taboo” and other quiet storm standards. Kelce did not encounter fish like this—raw, finely sliced, opalescent—growing up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, either. “Red Lobster was the nice spot for us to go to as a kid. We used to go there, see the lobsters in the tank like we were at an aquarium. We put on pants for that shit.” Kelce is here, in the swank, lean-protein-and-rich-people capital of…

HEAD OF LAST YEAR’S SEPTEMBER runway-show season, practically everyone in the fashion industry agreed that change was overdue. Across the board, slowed-down spending was discouraging bold ideas. Critics and consumers were bored. So were designers themselves—even the highest-profile creative directors were fantasizing about a shake-up. ¶ What transpired was more of an earthquake. Over the next eight months, more than a dozen luxury houses replaced their designers in a flurry of hirings, sudden departures, retirements, realignments, and shifting alliances that at times felt like luxury Game of Thrones. By the time the dust settled, Balenciaga’s creative director was at Gucci, Gucci’s ex-star was at Valentino, and Valentino’s designer was at Balenciaga. Dior was under one designer’s control for the first time since Christian; Dries Van Noten and Donatella Versace had named…

MEET TYRIQ In the new Jordan Peele–produced horror film Him, Tyriq Withers stars as a just-drafted quarterback learning the ropes from a wily vet played by Marlon Wayans. The 27-year-old native of Jacksonville, Florida, was unusually well suited for the challenge. Before he quit the sport in his sophomore year to pursue acting—leading to a breakthrough role in a 2022 episode of Atlanta and a juicy part in the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot—Withers was a walk-on wide receiver for Florida State. “It was like a full-circle moment,” he says about lacing up the shoulder pads again for Him. “I hope I nailed it.” Spoiler alert: He did, thanks in part to months of real-deal training with Josh Allen’s longtime offseason coach. But his acting in the…

EUGENE REMM KNOWS exactly when COVID-19 ended in New York City. It wasn’t when the city “reopened,” or when masks largely disappeared, or even when, seemingly by act of universal amnesia, everybody decided they were through talking about COVID-19. “Totally unscientific, backed by no data whatsoever, my heart says that September 2024 was the time when the world became what the world is going to be,” he said. We were sitting in a booth at The Corner Store, which Remm and his partners had opened that very month and which has been one of New York’s buzziest restaurants ever since. “The people who left New York came back; new people who wanted to be a part of New York came in,” Remm said. “New York finally felt alive and vibrant. I…

AT FIRST GLANCE, they have very little in common. Cooper Hoffman is a born-and-bred New Yorker, the 22-year-old son of the late acting titan Philip Seymour Hoffman, who grew up around his parents’ creative circle and, as a kid, made iPhone action sequences with Paul Thomas Anderson. For 31-year-old David Jonsson, art was a saving grace in his working-class immigrant east London household, where he was taught by his cinephile dad to revere classic films like Malcolm X and Waiting to Exhale but whose reality was a world away from Hollywood. But if you hear them tell it, those differences dissolved instantly when they met—it sounds, in fact, a little like love at first sight. This was on the chemistry read for The Long Walk, an upcoming adaptation of Stephen…