Innehållsförteckning för October 2024 från GQ

FRAZIER THARPE Senior associate editor, GQ US Growing up in the ’90s, Frazier Tharpe witnessed Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s meteoric rise from girl-group member to solo star. To prepare for his cover interview with Beyoncé, he rewatched her documentaries. “The recurring theme for the last 10 years has been her commitment to pushing past her limits,” he says. Office Grails…

FOR TOMMY CABRERIZO, a Miami-based collector, landing one of his dream watches from Richard Mille was just the start of the fun. Soon after, Cabrerizo found himself deep in the wormhole of authorized dealers and secondary market sellers to find the perfect complement to his new timepiece. Because, when it comes to a watch, the bracelets and straps can be just as important, historic, and beautifully designed as the head. “It’s part of the chase,” Cabrerizo says. “The same way I was excited to receive the RM 67-02, there’s that same buildup leading up to getting the straps—that same high.” Cabrerizo is already planning a trip to Geneva, mapping out how he’ll come home with a few extra bands. To get any of RM’s coveted straps—which come in fabric and rubber…

THERE IS AN awestruck, almost mythical way that folks discuss Lamar Jackson. Teammates, coaches, and fans talk about the Baltimore Ravens’ incandescent 27-year-old quarterback like he’s the football version of Paul Bunyan, if Bunyan ran the 40-yard dash in 4.3 seconds. That’s because Jackson tends to do things on the football field that people haven’t seen before. Like, say, throwing a football 100 yards, the whole length of the field—a feat he managed way back in high school, years before he’d become a two-time NFL MVP. “That’s true,” Jackson confirms. He and some teammates had been goofing around at girls’ flag football practice, chucking the ball back and forth, and the hype from all the onlookers steadily increased as each pass from their gifted classmate’s arm spiraled further and further…

WES LANG HAS BECOME increasingly reclusive. Fifty-two years old in September, the prolific Jersey-born, LA-based painter once architected a run of widely influential crossover moments between art and pop culture through a coveted series of drawings executed on hotel stationery at the Chateau Marmont (2011), album artwork for the Grateful Dead’s sprawling Spring 1990 box set (2012), and paradigm-shifting merch for Kanye West’s Yeezus tour (2013). All while busting out a frighteningly consistent array of paintings and drawings, which he’s shown in recent years at galleries like Almine Rech in Paris and One Trick Pony in LA, but mostly sold independently out of his Boyle Heights studio. Among artists, he occupies a singular position—simultaneously working at the center of culture while often standing outside the art world–industrial complex. Since the…

RIGHT NOW, the only thing standing between me and vacation is writing this editor’s letter. And I have to confess: Filling up this page is the hardest part of my job every month. When I started my career in magazines, in my head I was a writer. I remember thinking: If I can figure out how to pay my landlord (and the bartender) by writing, I will be the happiest man alive. Magazines were the obvious place to do that. Really, the only place as far as I could tell. So after scoring an internship at a music magazine called The Fader two weeks before graduating from college, I got busy writing. Here’s how it happened: In week two of that unpaid internship, I marched up to the editorial director…

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BEYONCÉ IS BREAKING OUT. Midway through Cowboy Carter, her eighth and most recent studio album, released this past spring, a voice makes the project’s mission statement plain over blaring alarms and a thunderous beat—declaring the concept of genre to be a sense of confinement for those artists whose creativity is too wide-ranging to fit in a neat box. All before Beyoncé herself saunters in comparing herself to Thanos, the Marvel villain known for seeking precious stones of mystical power to claim as his own and assemble into one unified superpower. There may not be an accompanying music video, but the lyrics conjure a potent visual: Beyoncé, armed with a bedazzled gauntlet, breaking down every stultifying wall, label, or box the industry ever tried to put her in across her 30-year…

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“OLD CARS ARE beautiful, but they’re not functional,” Rob Howard told me one day this spring. “People don’t really elect to admit it, that they’re a pain in the ass. And you tend to find reasons not to drive them.” Howard isn’t immune to their charms, to be sure: He has a small collection of cars he tinkers with, including a 1957 Chevy Bel Air wagon and an ’88 Toyota Land Cruiser. But to commute to and from work, he admitted, he drives a Rivian R1T electric truck. It’s just easier. We were speaking in his office, not far from San Francisco, surrounded by beautiful old cars in the process of being made functional. Howard is the founder and CEO of a small but growing company called Kindred Motorworks, which…

WHEN JANE BIRKIN—the late actor who inspired the Hermès Birkin—carried her namesake bag, she made it even more her own by embellishing it with a motley gaggle of adornments: charms, key chains, prayer beads, stickers, bits of ribbon, luggage tags. The Birkin is widely considered the world’s most difficult handbag to procure. The opportunity to buy one at retail, for upwards of $10,000, is offered only to the French house’s most valued customers; on the secondary market, some Birkins have been known to fetch more than $450,000. But Jane Birkin’s daring, haphazard styling knocked the ultimate It bag off its pedestal and made it lived-in, well-loved, real. That’s the tack we here at GQ advise you take with all bags, be it the hottest designer crossbody or a workaday nylon…