Innehållsförteckning för December 2022/January 2023 från GQ

Welcome to GQ’s 27th annual Men of the Year issue. I happen to think this is one of the most exciting and wide-ranging MOTYs we’ve done–a twisted issue full of twisted people celebrating a twisted year—but ultimately that’s for you to judge. I could use this page to enumerate all my favorite things about the incredible stories in this issue, but it’s probably more fun and helpful if I do your holiday shopping for you instead. Herewith, my personal list of cool things you should buy as gifts, or try to finesse out of your loved ones, or better yet just go buy for yourself. Let’s start with a forgotten classic, the navy blazer. For decades, a navy blazer was one of the most foundational elements of a man’s wardrobe,…

EARLIER THIS FALL, when it released its Ultra, Apple did more than simply put out a new timepiece: The company took its first truly momentous step forward with its watch since debuting it back in 2014. This was a watch designed to appeal to mechanical-watch aficionados. Not that the previous iteration didn’t suit their smartwatch needs, but, viewed horologically, Ultra features many of the characteristics found in a classic tool watch: the larger case size and crown; activity-specific bands (elastomer for diving, woven textile for climbing); and a fortress-like construction with a titanium case to protect the glass and crown guards. The redesign is radical, and certainly newly alluring for Rolex fans, but Ultra’s best attribute is that it runs on software. Which means it can be truly multifunctional while still…

THE UPPER EAST SIDE is out in full force at the Neue Galerie, a shrine to Austro-Germanic expressionism tucked inside a palatial Louis XIII–style mansion, on this gloomy fall afternoon. The coats are sumptuous shades of navy and brown. The hair is coiffed and gray. The elegant silk scarves are mandatory. The patrons have stepped inside the filigree-iron doors and up the dramatically curved marble staircase to be transported, through the evocative power of art, to the gilded refinement of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Also, to eat the café’s $36 Wiener schnitzel. Zoë Kravitz glides in wearing a long black coat over an all-black ensemble with her hair slicked up in a ballerina bun, looking like Catwoman decided to settle down in a classic six on Central Park. Her face is what…

THIS IS WHAT it feels like to hit a home run, T according to Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, who became the proud new owner of baseball’s single-season record, non-asterisk category, by hitting 62 of them this year: “Your body almost feels a little light—like an out-of-body experience,” he told me one afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Judge, six feet seven and 280 pounds, is the opposite of light. But then he makes contact with the ball and gravity reverses. “Especially at home. When you do it at home, you kind of feel like you’re floating around the bases.” All season long, Judge barely touched the ground. He was chasing history, and he was doing it in pinstripes. Fans who tuned out of the sport during the steroid era set push notifications…

To Give a Sense of what it might be like to read Matthew Perry’s remarkable, startling, and heartfelt memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, I’d like to share one particular reader’s experience: A few months after completing the book, Perry was scheduled to record the audiobook version. That was when it struck him that although he had written the book—and he really had written it himself, double thumbing the first half in the Notes app on his phone before finishing the rest on his iPad—he had never actually allowed himself to read it from start to finish. The following day, he would be expected to perform these words into a microphone. Perhaps he should take steps to prepare himself. So he lay on his bed, iPad in front…

Featuring DIEGO CALVA Diego Calva’s Very Big Debut AFTER PRODUCTION wrapped on Babylon, a 1920s Hollywood epic, Diego Calva received some advice from the film’s director, Damien Chazelle. “Go travel the world. Walk in your town with no problem. Your life is really about to change. I know you love movies, but sometimes I feel guilty because I am literally going to make it so you won’t be able to walk down the street,” he recalls Chazelle telling him. “And I was like, ‘Come on, Damien. What are you saying?’ But maybe it’s going to be true.” Such is the scale of Babylon, and of Calva’s role in it. He stars as Manny Torres, a movie obsessive from Mexico. Trying to make it in Hollywood, he finds mischief and…

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Venice, September When you’ve got sculpted scapulas like Timothée Chalamet’s, it’d be a crime against fashion not to show ’em off. Thankfully, designer Haider Ackermann’s shimmering halter-top-cum-jumpsuit situation ensured Timmy arrived elegantly bare-backed to the Venice premiere of Bones and All. A$AP ROCKY AND RIHANNA Milan, February The multitude of grails in this photo—from Rocky’s Gucci x Adidas gloves to Rihanna’s disco ball headpiece—are all just background noise compared to the one true (prenatal) star of the show. DONALD GLOVER NYC, July Sometimes the biggest fit you can wear on the streets of Manhattan is actually not so big at all. In fact, it’s tiny. Barely there. Case in point: the Atlanta star baring almost everything in color-coordinated short shorts and a bucket hat, with dark shades and…

FOR the past few years, Brendan Fraser has been attending fan conventions. Maybe a star with a different level of vanity or self-regard wouldn’t talk about this fact because it could be seen as embarrassing, or humbling, but Fraser is not that star. He shows up, shakes hands, signs autographs, talks about the past. Shares table space with guys like Sean Astin, from The Lord of the Rings and The Goonies. Fraser started doing this, he told me, “to get over myself. Because I thought either, It’s not something I would do, or, I didn’t want to put myself in a place where I was vulnerable in front of everyone.” But then he went to a Comic Con in London. This was in 2019. Part of it, he admits, is…

OMETIMES, ON THE internet, it S can feel like Jack Harlow is everywhere. Here: popping up on your Spotify playlist with smooth verses on tracks like “Nail Tech” or Lil Nas X’s still-ubiquitous “Industry Baby.” There: Harlow appearing in your feed slipping into red-carpet interviews at the BET Awards (“Jack Harlow Shoots His Shot at Saweetie”—13 million–plus views) or flirting with Emma Chamberlain at the Met Gala (“Love ya, bye!”). It’s like Harlow is Forrest Gump, if Forrest Gump had game. The year 2022 has been big for the Louisville, Kentucky, rapper. Harlow spent the spring filming his big-screen debut, in the remake of White Men Can’t Jump (due in 2023). In May he released his second studio LP, Come Home the Kids Miss You. “First Class,” off the new album,…

THURSDAY NIGHT, corner booth at Crossroads Kitchen, a vegan restaurant in West Hollywood, just before the dinner rush. Travis Barker shivers in a threadbare Subhumans T-shirt. He could conceivably ask the staff to turn down the AC a little—he’s an investor in this place, as it happens, not to mention, y’know, a rock star—but he doesn’t. “I think I’m, like, permanently cold, because I just spent the last four hours in my underwear,” he says. Then he laughs. Even in the context of Barker’s ever-more-improbable life, this day has been a weird one. He spent the afternoon standing around mostly naked while being measured, photographed, and scanned by representatives from Madame Tussauds, where he’s being honored with a wax figure in his likeness. When it’s suggested that he might be the…

AFEW YEARS AGO, Jeremy Allen White was hanging out at a party in Malibu hosted by Julia Roberts. Sean Penn, one of White’s idols, was also in attendance. The two actors had never met before. But White and Penn were the only two people smoking at the party, so every time the former would head out for a cigarette, the latter would ask to tag along. For most aspiring young stars, this would be a dream come true: one-on-one face time with a legend whose career you want to model your own after. “He’s, like, my hero,” White tells me. But when it came time to actually make small talk, White…blew it. Just completely froze up. “I couldn’t think of one word,” he admits, curling his fingers to make a…

TOWARD THE END of Max Verstappen’s first season in Formula 1—a season in which he’d become, at 17, the youngest-ever driver to compete in racing’s top series—he returned home to the north of Belgium to take his road test for his driver’s license. Despite winning in every racing category from seven years old onward, he hadn’t been in much of a hurry to drive normal cars, but it was getting to be a little silly. There was a break in the 2015 schedule, and a tight window to take the test before jetting off to a stretch of races in Asia. “The driving instructor was actually very strict,” he told me recently, before clarifying, “which is very good—it should be like that! And I wasn’t nervous but just a bit…

Anthony Vaccarello and I are sitting in his stately offce, housed in a 17th-century hôtel particulier in Paris’s Left Bank. Vaccarello has just presented his spring 2023 womenswear collection for Saint Laurent in front of the Eiffel Tower, and today things are so quiet you can hear his French bulldog, Nino, snoring in the next room. Vaccarello’s offce is minimally decorated, as if he’s still moving in, with a tidy black desk, a few Pierre Jeanneret chairs, and a small daybed underneath some bookshelves. “It’s peaceful,” he says, sipping from a tiny glass of water. “And very chic.” Vaccarello, who took over Saint Laurent as the brand’s sixth creative steward (including Mr. Saint Laurent) in 2016, is plenty settled in. Under his design, artistic, and image direction, the brand’s revenues…

ACCORDING TO Aubrey Plaza, living A in a five-star hotel is not the paradise you might think. The vibe can shift from Eloise to Jack Torrance pretty quickly. That’s what happened this February, when Plaza, along with the rest of the cast and crew of the HBO series The White Lotus, holed up in a seaside inn in Sicily to film the show’s second season. The property was shuttered to actual tourists so that the actors could play the vacationers. “A Charlie Kaufman experiment,” as Plaza puts it, with no retreat from work. Every time she stuck her head into the hallway, she heard “Motore, motore, motore!” (the Italian equivalent of “rolling”) echoing from some corner of the property. Eventually, she hung a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door.…