Innehållsförteckning för March 2023 från GQ

Contributor GABRIELLA PAIELLA Staff writer For her latest GQ cover story, Gabriella Paiella traveled to rural England to investigate the intrigue surrounding Succession star Jeremy Strong. Her main takeaway? “He is deeply, unabashedly himself at all times,” she says. And how does his wardrobe compare to the Cucinelli-clad Kendall Roy’s? “The rumors are true,” Paiella says. “He really does dress in head-to-toe brown all the time.” Office Grails…

Saturday Night Live is a little like your favorite college sports team: Lorne Michaels is the beloved coach, his stars churn out viral clips, and then…they get drafted. Or graduate. Or burn out. Which is what happened this past year, as nine of the show’s most familiar faces exited the show, including Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson. When the new season began in October, the program found itself in its biggest rebuilding year in decades—four new cast members joined two other recent arrivals for a very refreshed lineup. ¶ Shake-ups are, of course, par for the course at NBC’s late-night-comedy juggernaut, which has persisted for the past 48 years thanks to this very cycle of rebirth. Still, a reloading on this scale is rare: The last comparable overhaul came before…

HALFWAY THROUGH THE manufacturing process, about 90 seconds before they start looking like shoes, New Balance 990s are just two-dimensional slabs of branded fabric and leather, flat enough to be stacked, rubber-banded together, and passed from one worker to the next. As much as the two gray “N” logos stitched on each sheet of 990 material, it is the pattern of the upper that makes it recognizable, even without the familiar curves of a sneaker. Somehow, the essence of the 990 arrives ahead of those things that actually make it a shoe—sole, laces, tongue—beloved for years by normcore icons Adam Sandler and Steve Jobs, and, more recently, by style mavericks like Chris Pine, Zoë Kravitz, and Timothée Chalamet. Understanding the evolution of the 990 is a useful way of appreciating…

WHEN I ENTERED his crowded studio, I recognized him right away. Jeff Koons today looks practically identical to how he did in photos from his first solo show in 1980, when he asked us to accept a fresh-out-of-the-box vacuum cleaner as art. In language Koons might use to describe himself, he has nice hair, nice eyes, and a nice smile—which he deploys at the end of most sentences when any old punctuation would do. As perhaps he intended, it’s also hard to look at Koons without flashing on the works he made a decade later with his then wife, Ilona Staller, a porn actress and member of the Italian parliament. In the series, Made in Heaven, Koons photographed himself and Staller in flagrante, dick and balls and all. The art…

Throughout it, we men have been treating our bodies more like shelves, not so much getting dressed in a coherent look as putting an outrageous curation of pieces we’ve acquired on display, from dip-dyed fleece hoodies to purple fingernail polish to sneakers inspired by the monster-truck toys of our youth. It has been radical. It has been expansive. It has been good, clean fun. Never before have men felt so fearless and expressive and fashion-positive. But it’s time for change. And change is exactly what the fall collections portend. On that note, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the elegant era of menswear. A change in barometric pressure is morphing a ferocious deluge into a soft, warm drizzle. A quiet storm. What’s cool is that this new elegance…

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WHEN TOM CHNG GOT married, he directed the photographer to pay particular attention to the guests’ wrists. He knew that for his special day, the attendees would be turning out in some appropriately special wristwear. That’s because many of those in attendance were members of the Singapore Watch Club, which Chng founded in 2015. Watch-collector clubs have long been a place for enthusiasts like Chng to meet up and make friends, but lately these communities have been evolving in surprising ways. Chng’s Singapore Watch Club, for instance, has done more than just boost his wedding guest list. In recent years it has worked directly with watch-world top dogs like Ulysse Nardin, Hublot, and Cartier on watches designed specifically for the club—and made available exclusively to its members. The dialogue that…

His portrayal of Kendall Roy has made him a major sensation—and infamous for his extreme approach to the craft of acting. Here, on the verge of what may be the end of the show and the character that made his career, Jeremy Strong responds to his critics and contemplates life after Succession. I MEET Jeremy Strong on the winter solstice outside Sparsholt’s hottest pub, which is also Sparsholt’s only pub. The population of this English village: roughly 900. The sheep population: more than that. Everything feels in tune with nature. The air is clean and damp and vegetal. The afternoon sun hangs low in the sky, illuminating fields so bucolic they make the Shire look like Times Square. And Jeremy Strong is dressed, as ever, entirely in brown. Sweater, jacket,…

BACK IN 2019, Jake Gyllenhaal showed up to a red-carpet premiere wearing a thin, tasteful gold chain. It complemented his dark suit nicely, but Twitter still had an absolute meltdown—prompting a Vogue.com story titled “Leave Jake Gyllenhaal’s Necklace Alone.” We’ve come a long way in the four years since. Harry Styles rocks pearls on the regular, and a legion of Gen Z fellas has boldly followed in his footsteps. Lil Nas X is rarely seen without a florid earring dangling from his lobe. And now more than ever, the jewelry market is flush with daring, spectacular pieces for men—with daring, spectacular price tags to match—and style-minded, deep-pocketed guys are snapping ’em up with wild abandon. To Olivier Reza, the second-generation head of the luxury jewelry house Reza, this recent surge…