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Tyrell Hampton had a monosyllabic reaction to being assigned this year’s MOTY cover portfolio: “Gagged!” For the shoots, the 28-year-old—whose first GQ gig was as a photo assistant in 2018; he later shot Zendaya’s 2021 cover—spent a week at the Chateau Marmont, during which the storied West Hollywood hotel’s grounds remained very much open to regular guests. Despite managing a slate of high-profile stars, Hampton jokes that “the hardest talent was the Chateau. That girl was active!”…

FOR THE SERIOUS FASHION SNOB TOM FORD SEQUINED LIGHT BOUCLÉ JACKET There’s no better way to make a GQ-approved impression on the holiday-party circuit than in this glimmering sequined jacket from Haider Ackermann’s acclaimed Tom Ford debut ($6,830). KAPITAL MONKEY CISCO EMBELLISHED JEANS You could book an economy round-trip flight to Japan, or you could spend the airfare money on Kapital’s rollicking jewelen-crusted jeans ($827). MOBOLAJI X SABAH BABAS You know what’s cooler than another pair of ho-hum beige slippers? House shoes rendered in Italian suede the color of an Amalfi sunset ($295). THISTLES MALONE SUNGLASSES The quickest way to turbocharge a lazy weekend look? Throw on shades that channel ’70s-era Steve McQueen ($300). MAXIMUM HENRY X MARK BOUTILLIER STUDDED QUAD KEEPER BELT A belt this swaggering does a lot more than…

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SYDNEY SWEENEY’S powers as an actor are indisputable. In her melodramatic arc as Cassie Howard on HBO’s Euphoria, Sweeney has run the gauntlet of relationship nightmares (bad boyfriends, bad dads, revenge porn, teen pregnancy), becoming a focal point for debates about the show’s depictions of sexuality and, in 2022, receiving an Emmy nomination. The same year, she was nominated for a second Emmy for her ruthless, zeitgeisty work as Olivia on season one of The White Lotus. On the back of these roles, Sweeney has also established herself as a producer, most notably with 2023’s defiantly popular rom-com Anyone But You, and is about to release the two most ambitious projects she’s made to date: the boxing biopic Christy and the campy erotic thriller The Housemaid. But in the summer…

TWO DAYS A GO, Seth Rogen won so many Emmys that today his wrists are actually a little sore. This is not a joke: He’s flexing his hands by the back entrance of the Chateau Marmont and pointing out random bruises all those statuettes left on his arms. The final tally was four for Rogen, for acting in, writing, producing, and creating The Studio, which ties an individual record, and 13 for the show itself, which breaks a record for most-awarded comedy series. How do you feel right now? I ask him. ¶ “Crushing pressure” is his answer. He says he was able to enjoy the feeling of winning for about 24 hours. Then: pain. “I’m not surprised at all,” he says. “I was waiting for it.” ¶ The Studio,…

WE are going to get everything due us,” Pusha T remembers thinking when he and Malice embarked upon their reunion as the rap group Clipse. With that mindset, the brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton stormed into 2025 with a new album and a vengeance, both reasserting their legacy as two of the best coke rap MCs to ever do it and establishing themselves as formidable contenders in the contemporary hip-hop landscape. Let God Sort Em Out is, after their more than 15-year hiatus, one of the most authoritative comebacks the genre has ever seen—if you dare describe it as such. Push and Malice would rather you recognize the album as them delivering on the level they have always done, all while deepening their range. ¶ Before the album came out…

FIRST, of course, is the voice: Will Arnett’s raspy baritone carrying across tables and chairs and through a dining room wall at this Hollywood hotel, the voice of Gob Bluth and BoJack Horseman and Batman in the Lego movies and commercials for every 21st-century product from peanut butter cups to pickup trucks, and, of course, for the past five years, one third of SmartLess, the weekly audio-only-no-video podcast that has at times been among the most popular podcasts on the planet. That’s the voice mixing it up with Hollywood executives, somewhere over there, expressing incredulous due at Disney putting Jimmy Kimmel in the penalty box, a temporary banishment that transpired just hours ago. The voice, notably, is the instrument by which Will Arnett seems to most readily travel between his…

BACK IN LATE February, less than six months after MJ Lenderman released Manning Fireworks, his 2024 deadpan-sophisticate ringer of a breakthrough album, he told me that maybe it was time for his tour to end. “I don’t know,” he said, standing back-stage at a small sold-out theater in Boulder, Colorado, when the winter snow was still accreting. “But I think enough people have already seen us.” Three months later, in the brutalizing May heat of Charleston, South Carolina, Lenderman indeed looked tired. He and his alternating band of longtime friends, the Wind, had just returned from Australia and New Zealand; then they’d powered down the East Coast, playing sold-out stands in DC and New York along the way. He’d spent one day in his little rental in Chapel Hill, North…

WHEN JONATHAN ANDERSON’S first look for Dior hit the runway, it was cause for a double take: Cargo shorts? A tweedy blazer? Socks and—gasp—sandals? Indeed, Anderson’s audacious overhaul of French fashion’s crown jewel took the house’s legacy head-on and twisted it in unexpected ways. The opening salvo was a righteous statement of intent: Going forward, the fit seemed to insinuate, Dior will no longer merely propose what to wear but how to dress. “The first look is really important because it lays out exactly where I want to take this brand,” Anderson says. “It’s about the history, and then reinventing the history.” Here, the designer helps us decode the layers of references he packed into look one.…

GET YOUR GOLD-BUTTON blazers and Nantucket Reds ready: Preppy clothing is well and truly back. After a menswear renaissance driven by the aesthetics of flashy streetwear on one side and quiet luxury on the other, the prep renaissance suggests that it’s possible to have it both ways—that you can dress bombastic and understated in equal measure. And men have embraced the preppy paradigm with fraternity-pledgelevel enthusiasm. These days, the It bag is a busted L.L.Bean boat tote. Repp ties are newly collectible. Boat shoes are replacing loafers en masse. That pop you hear is the sound of a million turned-up polo shirt collars. It’s a return to the classics, yet the contemporary prep trend is anything but conventional. THESE PAGES, SEE ADDITIONAL CREDITS, PAGE 150.…

MIKE AMIRI HAS everything most designers dream about: Stores around the world. Multiple hit products. A booming business. A loving family (no biggie). Now, he also has the fashion world in the palm of his hand, thanks to the lavish vision of Old Hollywood elegance he unleashed on the Paris runways. It wasn’t so long ago that the establishment wrote Amiri off as merely a West Coast skinny jeans brand beloved by celebrities. But in 2025, Mike capped off a yearslong creative evolution with an array of opulent suits and swaggering knits that won over his critics—and inspired guys like Travis Kelce and Usher to swap their usual hoodies for glamorous blazers. “For me, Amiri is a very long-term project,” he says. “It’s about building a world stepby-step.”…

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A$AP ROCKY Los Angeles, January and February (here and next page) If the suit fits, you must acquit? In a bumper year for courtroom style (see also: Kid Cudi), Rocky’s designer tailoring master class—Saint Laurent, Gucci, Tom Ford, and more—epitomized coolness under pressure. TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET New York, January Welcome to GQ Style Mad Libs. We’ve filled in the nouns for you: Timothée Chalamet stunned in an Arc’teryx beanie, bubblegum-pink Telfar puffer jacket, striped Chanel knit scarf, silver mini crossbody bag, and—wait for it—lowslung True Religion jeans. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Manchester, England May At first glance, you might think that Bruce is doing cosplay of Jeremy Allen White, the young actor and tank top aficionado who plays the rock star in this year’s big music biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere—then you…

ON ONE OF those really good New York days in late September, the writer and director Noah Baumbach was wandering the upper floors of the Whitney Museum, trying to explain what his new movie was about. This is something that Baumbach generally struggles with, perhaps because it lies so closely to his gift, which is rendering the way people lie to themselves about themselves, the way they talk around the truth. “I find it diffcult to say anything kind of absolute about what I’m doing or what I’ve made,” Baumbach said. Looking back, he said, things were often clearer. He told a story about visiting his father’s father, a painter, in Brooklyn, when Baumbach was a child. “We would go up to the top floor, which was his studio, and…

STEPHEN COLBERT IS by the pool at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood wearing bathing trunks, a robe, and nothing else. GQ’s idea, not his. It’s been about two months since CBS canceled The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Twenty-four hours from now Colbert and his staff will win their second Emmy of the year, the first two that the show has won since Colbert started doing The Late Show. The crowd will give Colbert a standing ovation right at the beginning of the ceremony. ¶ Right this second he’s in the robe, about to get into the pool, and holding a lit joint that I maybe think I see him smoking, but when I mention it later, this is his response: “You cannot prove that I was smoking unless…

“IT has been the most blissful, circuitous kind of path,” Walton Goggins is saying. “I’ve been torn down to nothing and rebuilding. I feel like I’ve been reborn. I do. I feel like I’ve gone through my mama’s vagina. I’ve gone through the birthing canal. I feel liberated, man. Yeah. I feel unencumbered. I feel light.” This is his first answer. The first question was, So, how’s it going? It’s the day after the Emmys, and in the lobby of the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, Goggins—a nominee last night for playing karma-crossed revenge-seeker Rick Hatchett in season three of The White Lotus—sits before me, grinning and glowingly tan. No, he didn’t win. And no, he won’t say whom he would have thanked, in case he gets another chance to…

IN ANY GIVEN Frankenstein movie (there have been hundreds of them since the first film based on Mary Shelley’s novel opened in 1910) the plum role is usually the creature. He’s the one who learns to feel, who discovers man’s inhumanity, who makes us cry. His creator, on the other hand, is typically just a means to an end—the ethically sketchy guy who throws the switch and says: It’s alive!—and with all due respect to Sting, Udo Kier, Raul Julia, and every other legendary actor who’s played the role over the years, just about the only Dr. Frankenstein anybody remembers is Gene Wilder’s. (“It’s pronounced Frahn-ken-steen.”) ¶ In Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi does transformative work as the creature, whose ennobled suffering gives this most Catholic of Frankenstein adaptations…

ON a beautiful evening in July, Haider Ackermann is sitting on the roof of his Tom Ford design studio in Paris. It’s golden hour on one of the longest days of the year, i.e., well past quitting time, yet the offce is still frantic with activity. When I note the hour, the designer responds with a wistful sigh. “When you have a new love affair, you just want to go for it,” he says. “You don’t count the hours. You’re not tired, because you just have this love going through your veins. It makes your heart beat and it keeps you up at night.” The Colombian-born French designer was named creative director of Tom Ford in the fall of 2024, and the relationship had aroused all of men’s fashion. In…

FOR A 94-YEAR-OLD WATCH, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s venerable Reverso—which boasts a flippable dial originally meant to protect it during polo matches—has had the sort of blockbuster year normally reserved for fresh-faced breakouts. It was worn by a slew of Hollywood stars (Walton Goggins on SNL, Nicholas Hoult at the Superman premiere) and dropped in a gaggle of covetable variations, from artful iterations adorned with tiny enamel paintings to wildly complex minute repeaters. But 2025’s most sublime Reverso is one of the simplest: an 18-karat pink-gold edition with a Milanese bracelet so splashy, you could strap a Scrabble tile to it and it’d still be the watch of the year. There were plenty of major new timepieces in 2025, but none were as effortlessly spectacular as this one.…

EVERY YEAR, fashion memes itself closer to the sun. But even as the industry at large (nay, the whole world?) teeters ever closer to skibidi-whatever no-man’s-land, there are always a handful of viral hits that put some honest-to-goodness pep in our steps. In 2025, we treasured fashion’s unambiguous statements—including Conner Ives’s “Protect the Dolls” tee, which emphasized that trans rights should always be a talking point in fashion, and Willy Chavarria’s moving Paris Fashion Week statement against ICE. We reveled in Louis Vuitton’s Darjeeling Limited– inspired trunks, as well as the movement of men baring toes in designer flip-flops from ERL and The Row. (Not unrelatedly, thank goodness Rick Owens and his tattooed tootsies found a foot-friendly—and presumably lucrative—home on OnlyFans.) We bopped along to Katseye’s good jeans and “Milkshake”…

I WAS PLANNING to make this letter a celebration of the 30th edition of GQ’s Men of the Year. A milestone worth celebrating, certainly. But when I sat down and began typing, I had something else on my mind. Back in 1997, I was picking my way through my favorite used-CD store on Roswell Road in Atlanta and I lifted a copy of D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar off the rack. I remember carefully studying the track list and the sepia-toned portrait of D’ on the cover, looking for a sign. Back then, if you wanted to check out an album you pretty much just had to buy it. Buying used helped me make whatever cash I had go further, but still, the $8.99s and $11.99s added up fast. I really needed…

WHEN YOU’RE THE watch editorof GQ, you tend to field a lot of questions about which watch to buy a husband, boyfriend, or son to mark a birthday, anniversary, or graduation. Considering I don’t keep the company of many multimillionaires, these requests are most often made by folks with regular-people budgets. Thankfully, I’ve had plenty to recommend lately: In recent years, the watch market has exploded with new entry-level models that never make you feel like you’re settling. If you’re able to spend even close to $1,000, there are treasures out there to be found—and if you’re willing to go a hair over $5,000, well, the world’s your oyster. While there are longtime icons in this category—shout-out to the TAG Heuer Carrera—we’d like to introduce you to a new class of…

“I FUCKED UP,” SZA tells me. It’s been about a month and a half since the singer returned home to Los Angeles after wrapping her first international co-headlining stadium tour. It was the capper to an exemplary 2025 that included costarring in her first feature film and a single that spent 13 consecutive weeks at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100—a run that began shortly after she appeared in February’s Super Bowl halftime show. She’s been in go mode for the majority of the year. How then, after finally coming off the road in August, did she down-shift and decompress? She didn’t, and therein lies where she fucked up. “I had no comedown,” SZA, born Solána Imani Rowe, says in a tone that registers as half-amused, half-disappointed in…

IN September, I landed at LAX and found myself unmistakably in Hailey Bieber’s Los Angeles. On my way to meet the 28-year-old at the Chateau Marmont, I spotted her on no fewer than four enormous billboards along a mile-long stretch of Sunset Boulevard. There was Hailey the fashion muse fronting a DKNY campaign; Hailey the celebrity wife and mother standing with Justin and their son, Jack, in a promotion for her husband’s new album; Hailey the influencer toting a giant Chase credit card; Hailey the visionary businesswoman in an ad for her beauty brand, Rhode. This spring, only three years after its launch with a handful of glossy products, Bieber sold Rhode in a deal worth $1 billion. No cosmetics brand in history has hit unicorn status so quickly, which…

FOR MUCH OF the 2020s, the phrase designer sneakers invoked bloated images of dopey dad shoes, post-irony Balenciaga Triple S stompers, and Succession’s Kendall Roy wearing box-fresh kicks as an ill-fated ploy to hypebeast his way into an investment deal. Finally, fashion has conjured a slimmer antidote: torpedo sneakers. The balletic silhouette—taking form in Prada’s Collapse trainer, Margiela’s Sprinters, and Dries Van Noten’s retro Suede—has pranced its way into the highly influential closets of Harry Styles, Jacob Elordi, and Matty Healy. More aspirational than a Samba and only slightly less pricey than a name-brand loafer, these svelte steppers are menswear’s answer to TikTok’s beloved “coquette aesthetic.”…

Page 144. Show of the Year: Ulrich Knoblauch. Page 145. Look of the Year: Daniele Oberrauch/Gorunway.com. Page 146. Store of the Year: Brian Kanagaki. Campaign of the Year and Sneakers of the Year: courtesy of the brands. Page 147. Trend of the Year, clockwise from top left: Fior, Dragone/Gorunway.com; Karwai Tang/Getty Images for Ralph Lauren; courtesy of Bally; courtesy of Adidas; courtesy of NN.07; courtesy of Sperry; courtesy of J. Press; XNY/Star Max/GC Images; Visionhaus/Getty Images; Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Prime Video; Raymond Hall/GC Images; MEGA/GC Images; Wooden Sleepers; Bowen Fernie; courtesy of Celine/Gorunway.com. Page 148. Watch of the Year: courtesy of the brand. Finale of the Year, from left: Alfredo Piola; Umberto Fratini/Gorunway.com. Breakthrough Designer of the Year, from left: Filippo Fior/Gorunway.com; Francois Durand/Getty Images; Filippo Fior/Gorunway.com.com (2). Page…