Indholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2025 i GQ

NICHOLAS BIEBUYCK cried when he got the news. In January, TAG Heuer announced it was taking over as Formula 1’s official timekeeper in 2025, a role it last held from 1992 to 2003. (Tech giants Siemens and LG followed, before Rolex took over the honors for the past 12 seasons.) Biebuyck, TAG Heuer’s heritage director, grew up an F1 junkie in the ’90s and vividly remembers scenes from that era’s most dramatic races: Michael Schumacher and Mika Häkkinen battling it out while the lap times popped on the screen bearing TAG’s green-and-red shield. His tears flowed from a sense that everything was neatly back in its proper place, with TAG firmly entrenched at the top tier of motorsport. “It’s legitimately where the brand belongs,” Biebuyck said. “This is our home.” TAG…

BRAD PITT GLENORCHY, NEW ZEALAND DAMSON IDRIS CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA LEWIS HAMILTON NICE, FRANCE THE SET PART I There’s a roar beyond the grandstands—something atavistic, something mean and mad and on the prowl. Those of us standing on the pit wall of Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit snap our heads expectantly in the direction of the sound, holding our collective breath for a T-Rex to emerge, or for Brad Pitt’s F1 car to come screaming down the start-finish straight. Whaaaa! There it is, sliding around the track’s final turn and onto the stretch. And in three…two…one, Pitt’s car rockets by with the speed and power of a fighter jet, belching flames out of its tail as it thunders through turn one and disappears from view. Our hair blown back,…

For decades, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has opened its blockbuster spring exhibition with the Met Gala, a benefit that has since morphed into a global spectacle all its own. This year we’re set to witness men’s fashion’s biggest night. The Costume Institute exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” tells the story of the Black dandy, the rakish figure who turns suiting into his own waggish coat of armor. This fashion portfolio brings together over 30 Black trailblazers—actors, musicians, athletes, artists, and more—to pay homage to the Black dandy, styled by image architect Law Roach and shot by photographer Tyler Mitchell. Here, Roach takes us behind the scenes of this monumental project. —SAMUEL HINE CHURCH WAS MY first fashion show, and my grandmother was my first client. She is…

In recent years, Balenciaga has made a habit of supersizing its staples: sneakers with monster-truck-tread soles, say, or blazers with linebacker shoulder pads. These slinky polo shirts ($850 each), on the other hand, boast a torso-hugging, shrunk-in-the-dryer shape designed to let your midriff do the talking—as ably demonstrated here by actor and budding filmmaker Stella Huston (niece of Anjelica!) and her bespoke-tailor boyfriend, Dillon Maxwell Clarke. Pop Ya Collar Polos are as quintessentially summer as soft-serve cones and Michael Bay movies. But the latest crop trades the shirt’s prim, preppy bona fides in favor of something altogether punchier—think brazenly boxy cuts, acid-trip tones, and navel-grazing plackets. Pop Ya Collar Those puka-shell necklaces everyone rocked in high school? These are them now. Feel old yet? In all seriousness: The sickest jewelry…

TRAVELING IS OFTEN glamorous and thrilling. But it can also be a lonely and relentless grind, with no shortage of minor indignities—flight delays, hotel micro-dramas, shitty weather—that are simply out of your hands. But even if you can’t scatter the thunderclouds, you can eliminate a whole bunch of petty annoyances that are well within your control. That’s what made this glorious Louis Vuitton toiletries bag ($1,390) a game changer when I got mine a few years back. The problem with most standard Dopp kits—the baguetteshaped kind, with a zip down the middle—is that it’s impossible to actually see what’s in there. Your products are jumbled together in the dark, and while you’re digging for face cream you’ll inevitably slice a finger on your razor. (Yes, I’ve drawn blood.) With this…

Bad news: Your pedicure budget is about to skyrocket. That’s because the footwear of the moment offers up a tantalizing peek at your dogs, be it through the demure cutouts of Emporio Armani’s suede T-bar shoes or the full-on exposure of The Row’s luxed-up flip-flops. ONE GOOD BUY: BLACKTOP-READY SHORTS This month’s wardrobe upgrade from GQ.com’s team of shopping experts. Hit “Add to cart” pronto. Remember the swishy mesh shorts you swore by during your AAU heyday? S.K. Manor Hill’s Dominic Sondag does—and he’s not entirely sure why you gave up on ’em. (Your hoop dreams, we’re sad to report, are another story.) Thanks to dueling hues of ingeniously layered mesh, the designer’s reversible spin on the silhouette transforms a schlubby pickup standby into shorts Justin Bieber might wear to dinner.…

WHEN I LEFT my Jacques Marie Mage sunglasses in the back of a cab on a late night out in 2022, the loss hit hard. The rounded tortoiseshell Akira frames were perfect, with dusky purple lenses and an elegant proportion inspired—like many JMM designs are—by a guy who looked iconic in sunglasses (in this case, Kurosawa). They were also incredibly expensive. Jacques Marie Mage (or JMM to fans), founded by an eccentric French expat named Jérôme Mage in 2014, makes eyewear that is extravagant in every way. Prices for the frames range from around $800 to north of $2,000, and they feel like it: JMMs are constructed with thick, glossy acetate or sleek beta titanium, colorful lenses, and flashy hardware, giving them a deeply satisfying heft. You’re paying for the…

WHEN IT COMES time to start a new Mission: Impossible movie, the first thing that happens is Tom Cruise, the star of the franchise, and Christopher McQuarrie, its longtime writerdirector, sit down together and they ask each other: What do you want to do? The answer is inevitably: something difficult and dangerous. Years ago, when Cruise and McQuarrie were beginning to sketch out the plot of 2018’s Mission: Impossible—Fallout, Cruise proposed a helicopter chase: his character in the films, Ethan Hunt, pursuing a bad guy, played by Henry Cavill, while both of them were aloft. As a rule, in Mission: Impossible, stunts are real: meaning they are performed by the actual actors involved, at least when possible, and when they are being done by Tom Cruise, that means all the…