Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2025 i GQ

EMILY SUNDBERG Writer Emily Sundberg hopes her interviews with 21 current college students (some of whom she recruited via her popular Substack, “Feed Me”) inspire “empathy and patience” for a misunderstood generation shaped by COVID, smartphones, and AI. “I keep reading studies that Gen Z doesn’t party. I thought they’d tell me they work out and drink electrolytes all Friday night,” Sundberg says. “Not true!” Office Grails MANON DAVIES Executive assistant, British GQ “If you ever see me in trainers, don’t panic…but maybe check in on me.” CHRISTOPHER PANICKER Senior designer, GQ US “My NB 610s were born for the trails. The trails being my commute to the office.” SASHA MUTCHNIK Senior director, social media, GQ US “One of my favorite statement skirts from one of my favorite brands—Hades!”…

IN 2015, Ed Sheeran placed an order for a Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 with the Tiffany & Co. word mark stamped on the dial, an ultrarare variation of an already rare watch. It took five years for Sheeran to reach the top of the wait list, and the timepiece just happened to be delivered—by a courier and accompanying security guard—on the day the musician’s wife, Cherry, went into labor with the couple’s first child. So Sheeran did what any watch fanatic would: He brought a sizing kit with him to the hospital. Once there, Sheeran followed a tutorial on YouTube and used a tiny pair of pliers to carefully remove a few links so the Nautilus would hug his wrist just right. “All the pictures of me with my daughter…

When GQ published its special New Masculinity issue in 2019, the reckoning of #MeToo and the increased visibility of the LGBTQ+ movement found men reaching for a more enlightened vision of manliness. A lot has happened in the past six years, some of it amounting to an ideological movement promising to “let men be men again”—whatever that might mean. In July we interviewed eight cultural figures representing a range of perspectives about how they make sense of this moment. We also conducted a survey that asked similar questions of 1,929 American men. The interviewees and survey respondents whose opinions are compiled here and in the poll disagreed, sometimes sharply, about the politics of the so-called crisis of masculinity. But many agreed that they do not wish to return to their…

WHEN I BECAME EDITOR of this magazine some seven years ago, one of the first orders of business for me and the team was to modernize the way we gave advice to our readers. In the biz, we call this stuff “service journalism”—the long and noble tradition of stories that, at least in men’s magazines, once told readers how to buy a suit or how to talk to a woman or how to style your hair or how to grill the perfect steak or where to go on the best vacation. You see, what had gone stale—and needed to change fast—was the idea that GQ should prescribe a cookie cutter mold of a stylish man, and insist that all of our readers cram themselves into it if they ever expected…

ON A WARM evening in May of 2024, Bryan Johnson, the 48-year-old tech entrepreneur who has spent millions of dollars attempting to reverse his biological age, hosted a dinner party. In attendance were Kim and Khloé Kardashian, their mother, Kris Jenner, and Andrew Huberman, a Stanford neuroscientist whose podcast, Huberman Lab, discusses how scientific research can be harnessed for personal improvement for an audience of millions. At Johnson’s home in Venice, California, his guests ate broccoli, cauliflower, black lentils, and pudding made from walnuts, berries, pomegranate juice, macadamia nuts, and cinnamon. The meal was documented by the Kardashians’ camera crew, and when snippets from the evening were posted to social media, the default response seemed to be confusion: Fans of Huberman, whose appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience helped vault…

On a hot summer afternoon in a makeshift museum on the grounds of the Hôtel National des Invalides in Paris, about 600 people waited patiently for the Dior Men’s show to begin. Donatella Versace took a photo with Roger Federer. While an elite slice of the celebrity and fashion establishments sat shoulder to shoulder in the room, over a million people were watching on the livestream. The outsize attention was testament to the fact that this was the Super Bowl of fashion shows for the spring-summer 2026 season—the event that all of June’s Paris Fashion Week had been building toward. For months, June 27 had been circled on the calendar in bright red Sharpie as the day when Jonathan Anderson, the 41-year-old designer newly installed at the helm of Christian…

OVER THE PAST FEW years, the watch world has exploded in popularity. It’s been incredibly fun to witness. Establishment players and upstart micro-brands alike are turning out some of the grandest and most complicated timepieces ever. A new generation of vintage dealers, meanwhile, is leading collectors down some truly offbeat horological rabbit holes. But while all that stuff is intellectually and editorially interesting to me, as far as watches I actually wear go, I’m still blissfully stuck on the first model I ever fell for: the Rolex Datejust. I like that the Datejust is a watch with real history, a staple of Rolex’s catalog since 1945. I like the pristine and effortless dial. I like that it makes a bold statement, but not a ludicrous one. But more than anything,…

BROOKLYN’S BEST-DRESSED POWER COUPLE When NYC councilman Chi Ossé (left) and his food-stylist boyfriend, Sean Dooley, first met, their wardrobes were polar opposites. “Chi is going to hate me for saying this, but he loved very tight fitting clothes,” Dooley shares with a laugh. “I love an oversized fit.” The Gen Z politician, elected in 2021, has since blown up way beyond his Brooklyn district thanks to his irreverently informative, and viral, TikToks. Ossé has a distinctive work style too. “As I’ve gotten more comfortable in my job, more of my personal style has been intertwined with that council-member dress code,” the 27-year-old explains. “You have to find a healthy balance between doing too much and doing what’s appropriate.” And now, he says, his and Dooley’s tastes have also converged.…

WHEN GLEN POWELL was in his 20s, he wrote Sylvester Stallone a letter. At the time, Powell was still trying to succeed in Hollywood and, as he recently described it to me, at “the point of famine.” Stallone was casting the third installment of his aging-action-hero franchise, The Expendables 3. Powell, an unknown desperate to join the ranks of a call sheet full of over-the-hill action stars, recounted for Stallone the way he was raised. In Texas, Powell said in his letter, he grew up with a gun range in his basement, had learned to fight from his uncles, and had spent long stretches of his childhood trying to find new ways to cheat death. Improbably, the letter worked; Powell got the part. Even more improbably, nearly everything Powell wrote…