Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2025 i GQ

Anna Silman, who reported on the hushhush world of celebrity PR for this issue, has spent many late nights talking to A-list publicists. With high-profile disputes (like the Justin Baldoni–Blake Lively case) laying their biz bare, the private orchestration of powerful reputations has become news itself. “It was fun to pull back the curtain,” Silman says. “One thing about crisis PR reps is that they’re not afraid to talk.” Office Grails…

ONE GOOD BUY: AN UNDERSHIRT THAT OVERPERFORMS This month’s wardrobe upgrade from GQ.com’s team of shopping experts. Hit “Add to cart” pronto. When veteran menswear designer Aaron Levine launched his own label last November, in-the-know clothing buffs went bananas—snapping up his Detroit-made thermals to layer beneath their brawniest winter duds. Levine’s specialty is refined yet unfussy Americana, and his waffle-knit tees deliver on that premise with coldbusting panache. For more elitelevel shopping intel sourced directly from the GQ brain trust, scan the code to subscribe to the Recommends newsletter.…

EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING during the NBA offseason, a gleaming black Cadillac Escalade pulls into the driveway of an unremarkable brick building in an unremarkable office park in an unremarkable suburb of Toronto at 6 a.m. sharp. On this particular Thursday in early September, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hops out of the back seat looking fresh off the set of a Hype Williams video: cropped tactical vest, billowing Balenciaga track pants, backwards cap over a taut durag, all the same inky shade of black. The Oklahoma City Thunder star glides inside, trousers swishing as he walks, past a vacant reception desk and down an unlit hallway until he emerges into the fluorescent-lit expanse of the gym. Inside, there are three full-size basketball courts and a couple stands of bleachers. Along the back wall…

THE NEW OLD LOOK Jonathan Anderson’s hugely anticipated Dior debut delivered plenty of high-concept pairings for spring 2026—dinner jackets over cargo shorts; frock coats with tennis shoes. But the show’s most revelatory duo was its simplest: the humble shirt and tie, done up with Anderson’s signature preppy ease in crisp striped poplins, graphic repp-striped silks, and all-business flannels with cheeky front-facing labels.…

GROWING UP, Michael Friedman—a longtime fixture of the luxury-watch world—idolized Muhammad Ali. He met the boxer once, in 2000, at a watch auction he’d organized while working at Christie’s in New York. Ali, Friedman says, touched his vintage Audemars Piguet watch and told him, “An object can be a talisman if it means something to you.” After such a meaningful exchange, you might expect that Friedman’s Aliblessed timepiece went on to become a cherished heirloom, destined to be passed down from one generation of Friedmans to the next. Instead, in October 2022, while backstage at a concert in Lausanne, Switzerland, Friedman took the watch off his wrist and gave it away to Kendrick Lamar without a second thought. “You’re either a historian or you’re a technician, and he is a very…

PEOPLE LIKE TO ask the influencer Morgan Riddle if her boyfriend, the top-ranked American tennis player Taylor Fritz, ever gives her lessons. It’s a reasonable question. “I’m like, Hell no,” she says. “I do, like, two lessons, and he’s trying to teach me topspin. I’m like, I can’t even get the ball over the net.” Riddle, who is 28 and naturally Barbie-like, has just arrived at the Lotte New York Palace hotel in midtown Manhattan, where she and Fritz will spend the next few weeks during the US Open. Twentyseven-year-old Fritz’s rise has been a slow burn, and he reached the finals here in 2024. As the top American player and the number four seed overall, he’s under tremendous pressure to go deep in the tournament again. Though he is…

Knockout Knits The sweaters that matter most right now are burly and audacious enough to make pulling a jacket over them feel like a waste.…

IN THE PREDAWN HOURS on August 8, 2020, three young men from the Netherlands drove over the Dutch-German border to a sleepy branch of Sparkasse, the largest network of public savings banks in Germany. The branch occupied the ground floor of a brown-brick building in a village called Wachtendonk, serving the local community with a cash machine that was, that morning, filled with at least 160,000 euros. The men from the Netherlands, each around 20 years old at the time, were part of a gang whose members had taught themselves how to rob exactly this sort of isolated, rural, money-stuffed ATM. Tending to drive out of their home country after dark, equipped with jerricans full of gasoline for their return trip and the repackaged powder from fireworks, they were one…

On the Fourth of July—a day that Ken Burns unsurprisingly refers to as “by far, by far, my favorite holiday”—I accompanied the legendary documentary filmmaker to a naturalization ceremony on the West Lawn of Monticello, the former Virginia plantation home of Thomas Jefferson. Burns was on hand for double duty: first, to screen and discuss his forthcoming mega-series, The American Revolution; then, to give the keynote address at the event minting 74 new American citizens. While naturalization ceremonies typically take place in a courthouse, the annual Fourth of July ceremony at Monticello is an outdoor jam with a suburban block-party atmosphere. Several hundred civilians venture from all across the country to bear witness. Tents are raised. Bunting is strung. Hot dogs are served. Attendees choke up as new Americans share…

GENTLEMEN KNOW THAT winter mornings require us to answer an all-too-familiar, two-part question: What’s the weather, and, am I wearing a slush-proof shell or a tailored topcoat? Given that I wear a jacket and tie everyday, I almost always prefer the elegance of the topcoat. Thanks to the fabric innovators at Loro Piana, I can have it—even when it’s nasty out. Every winter, the century-old luxury Italian textile purveyor and clothier makes an unassailably perfect overcoat treated with the house’s proprietary Storm System tech. With each season’s new coat, the cut is always long and enveloping, the aesthetic balances classicism with a hint of right-now freshness, and Storm System renders the heavenly wools and cashmeres nearly as weatherproof as a nylon parka—without sacrificing an inch of sophistication. My first Loro…