Indholdsfortegnelse for February 2025 i GQ

TOBIAS FRERICKS Head of editorial content, GQ Germany February’s cover was styled by Tobias Frericks, a 20-year veteran of GQ Germany. For tennis star Novak Djokovic, Frericks consulted retro images of Alain Delon, JFK, and David Bowie on boats and secured a pre-runway Lacoste spring-summer 2025 tracksuit. Naturally, a thunderstorm found them the day of the shoot. “By the time we stepped off the boat, we were all soaked—but we got the shots,” Frericks recalls. Office Grails KELSEY NIZIOLEK Designer, GQ US “If I wear anything other than black, it’s guaranteed that I’ll spill coffee on myself.” MICHAEL NOLLEDO Associate commerce director, GQ Recommends “A raggedy Barbour flea market find from London: recently repaired, rewaxed, and so back.” IAN BURKE Senior commerce editor, GQ Recommends “You don’t actually have to…

Yup, even your sneakers are on Ozempic these days. After years of designer kicks growing ever more ankle-breakingly gargantuan, the silhouette of the moment is suddenly—jarringly, even—a whole lot svelter. The uppers are barrel-shaped, like the snout of a borzoi, with a retro-ish aesthetic that lands somewhere between a bowling shoe and an F1 racing shoe. The outsoles, crucially, are hardly there at all. It’s a look that’ll require you to rethink the always precarious footwear-pant relationship—you’ll want a wider leg that accentuates the sneakers’ slim profile, but not so wide that it completely envelops them—and potentially force you to be honest with yourself and your Hinge dates about your actual, non-Hoka-inflated height. Wild Belts The quickest way to supercharge your standby jeans? Strap on a belt with some serious oomph.…

FOR BETTER OR WORSE, we are all curators. We might not think of ourselves as such, but curating is what the modern world of style is all about: collections of things arranged in just the right way. We do this on our bodies with what we wear, in our homes with objects and furniture, in our offices, in our cars, even at the table in a restaurant. This is how we express our taste, our personality, our identity. We exhibit our personal curatorial projects on Instagram and TikTok, on YouTube and Twitch streams, in the backgrounds of our Zooms and FaceTime video calls. From the lowly Pinterest mood board artists to the creative director of your favorite fashion house, curation is how worlds are built. When building their world together,…

SIMON PORTE JACQUEMUS is about to tell us a secret. It’s early June and he’s with a small group of journalists in a villa perched on a cliff on the Italian island of Capri, where the French fashion designer is about to stage a runway show for his namesake brand, Jacquemus. There’s a fierce sun baking the runway outside, which is, in a way, very Jacquemus, synonymous as the label is with modern Mediterranean style. A few rooms over, models are getting their hair touched up and pulling on bright, leisurely looks. But first, an appearance designed to make the internet go wild will unfold. Porte Jacquemus knows he shouldn’t spoil it, but some names are too iconic not to drop. “Gwyneth,” he says in his syrupy southern French…

IT’S 11:53 P.M. and I’m on deadline. Actually, I’m way, way past deadline. There are only two more workdays left in 2024. All week, I’ve felt my soul slowly starting to unplug for the holidays. I’ve just been trying to keep the plug in the wall. I keep telling myself, Stay engaged—too many loose ends to tie up before Friday. ¶ Most pressingly, I’ve got to file this letter and get it shipped to the printer tomorrow. I just popped a piece of Nicorette. I’ll get it done. ¶ I started smoking when I was 16. A friend gave me one of his Parliament Lights after Bible study. The buzz spun me hard enough that I had to wait 15 minutes before I could drive my Volvo station wagon home.…

Tartan, madras, buffalo, glen: If it’s covered in checks, it’s sick as hell right now. It isn’t just the familiar grunge-era flannels and country-club shorts that are back again either. Designers are plastering everything from drapey trench coats to delicate dress watches in big, bodacious plaids. Our advice for pulling ’em off? Pick a couple of pieces with disparately sized patterns—some vibey microplaid trousers, say, with an exploded Black Watch jacket—and then pile them on top of each other and let it rip. ONE GOOD BUY: A RETRO SWEATER-POLO HYBRID A wardrobe upgrade from GQ.com’s team of shopping experts. Hit “add to cart” pronto. It didn’t take long for Carter Young—the brainchild of Detroit-born, New York–based designer Carter Altman—to mint a menswear classic. Altman founded the label in 2020, but his…

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ON A bookcase in the London offices of Ridley Scott Associates sits a framed memento: a Pupil’s Report Book from the County of Durham Education Committee’s Stockton Grammar School. On the front cover, filled in by hand, is the name of the pupil in question: “R. Scott.” At a casual glance, that’s all you’d see—nothing more than a sentimental keepsake from Ridley Scott’s childhood long ago in the northeast of England. Thing is, Ridley Scott isn’t necessarily the man for unnuanced keepsakes. On the wall of another of his offices, for instance, he keeps a framed copy of the four-page evisceration his 1982 film, Blade Runner, received from the New Yorker’s legendary film critic Pauline Kael. “Blade Runner” has nothing to give the audience, Kael wrote. And: If anybody comes around…

THE 1970s WERE A turbulent time for the watch industry. Switzerland’s prestigious old guard watchmakers were shuttering in the face of a battery-operated revolution. Sales of inexpensive quartz watches from Japan were soaring. In search of a strategy to stay relevant amid this radical shift, the holy trinity of Swiss watchmakers—Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, and Vacheron Constantin—all came up with the same Hail Mary play: a watch with sporty looks and made of steel for everyday wear but designed and manufactured to Swiss luxury’s high-end standards. The designs AP and Patek launched at that time went on to become two of the most revered in all of watch history: the Royal Oak and Nautilus, respectively. However, Vacheron Constantin’s contribution has mostly fallen into the annals of watch-forum nerd-dom, and never broke…

ON this morning in Montenegro, awash in abundant sun-light sparkling off of the Bay of Kotor, Novak Djokovic wears a white Lacoste T-shirt, blue shorts, rubber sandals, and Moscot glasses with a blue tint. He is, at 37, perhaps at his most relaxed. Nothing left to gain and nothing left to lose. The confidence he projects is new and kind of terrifying—at peace with the inevitable ending and yet with at least one more season of Slams in the tank. He carries toward our table a Wimbledon bag: canvas, leather, Wimbledon purple and Wimbledon green. “I love it,” he says. “They know what they’re doing.” Djokovic spends three minutes, which feel like 30, catechizing a waiter in Serbian about the specific ingredients of every dish on the breakfast menu. I…

ONE DAY LAST FALL, the Twitch streamer Fanum sat down at his computer and got to work—which, in his case, meant making content that appeals to his millions of fans but would baffe most folks over 30. His stream unfurled like a day of summer camp, with nonstop inane activities. He began with a Vietnam mukbang (went to a Vietnamese restaurant, ordered and ate food), and then hit a Publix supermarket with fellow creator JasonTheWeen, where they met fans. “They spawning!” Fanum cracked as a fan ran up to him, agape, in the freezer aisle. Later, he and Jason rifled through Jason’s Hinge profile, appraising the women they came across; played basketball; and carved pumpkins together. All the while, Fanum frequently interacted with the always-on Twitch chat that viewers type messages…