Innehållsförteckning för Summer 2016 från GQ Style

Can I set a quick scene for you? Photographer Pari Dukovic is shooting Robert Downey Jr. for the cover of this, the first issue of GQ Style. We’re in the Downey world headquarters on the Westside of L.A. Pari’s camera is flashing away, but he and Downey haven’t yet found their groove, partly because the music isn’t quite right. So I start playing reggae from my iPhone through a portable speaker to keep the energy up. After a while, Downey’s constant companion Jimmy commandeers my iPhone and fires up the soundtrack to The Harder They Come. As the tune “Pressure Drop” starts to fade out, Downey looks over and asks, “Hey, is that Toots?” Yep. “If you play ‘Funky Kingston,’ I’ll get this thing going.” Jimmy plays the song. And…

Our Legacy started as a punk band—but one that makes clothes instead of music. Jockum Hallin and Cristopher Nying met as kids in Jönköping, Sweden, where they worked at what Jockum calls “the best clothing store in our little town.” In 2005 they opened a distribution agency in Stockholm and soon started selling their own line of graphic tees. They called the fledgling project Our Legacy. According to Hallin, the name “was something we wouldn’t get bored of, and we liked that it sort of sounds like a punk or hardcore band.” What started as a side project quickly grew into a full collection of shirts, pants, outerwear, and suits. At first glance, Our Legacy might evoke classic Scandinavian minimalism (see: razor-sharp topcoats, smart tailoring, slim black jeans, white tees…

I bought my first art book when I was 10. It was an Andy Warhol book, and I got it from a guy in a Pearl Paint parking lot. It’s not a valuable book; it was just some random one where they couldn’t even afford to reproduce all the images in color. I still have it. And it was the first thing that really opened me up to that world. When I was heavy into art books, I was on eBay all the time, spending time on AbeBooks, Powell’s. Then the Strand’s Rare Book Room. In L.A., I’d go to Arcana. I just had my spots around the world. The worst is when you go to Europe and you have to buy a new bag to lug them all home.…

Christian Slater AGE: 46 OCCUPATION: Mr. Robot on Mr. Robot THE SUIT: Slim three-piece camo-lined suit from a not-sodystopian future CONFESSION: “Over the years, if I look back at photos, I think there was a pretty frightening lack of style. I was just grabbing whatever I saw in the closet and putting it on. Now I know that I’m good in single-breasted suits, a really thin lapel, a shorter jacket. Less material is key: I didn’t really get that when I was younger. Now I’m just trying to streamline things as much as possible.” Mark McNairy OCCUPATION: Iconoclastic menswear designer THE SUIT: Summer tweed PREFERRED SHOE: 1970s Chuck Taylors (one white, one black) ON TAILORING: “I went to my daughter’s graduation in New Orleans, and I found out that I…

Bob Marley took reggae, Rastafarianism, and THE SINGULAR CULTURE OF JAMAICA worldwide— but what do you find when you look past the smoke clouds and clichés? Booker-winning novelist Marlon James considers the real (and very stylish) soul behind the image. Meanwhile, in a rare photo shoot, we caught up with Bob’s living legacy: THE MARLEY SONS, DAUGHTERS, AND GRANDCHILDREN who are keeping Tuff Gong tougher than ever. I mean, you can’t help but wonder. When a black man—yes, a rock star, but still a black rock star from the so-called Third World—struts onstage in a way that makes a peacock seem bashful, in a brown leather vest and pants, tripping on ballsy, risking ridiculous but still coming off regal, prophetic, almost like the Lion of Judah he sang about, you gotta wonder, where…

1 Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come YEAR: 1972 Simply put, reggae as a global phenomenon begins with The Harder They Come. Before most people outside Jamaica could tell you who Bob Marley was, Cliffput the world on notice that something explosive was happening in downtown Kingston, with his role as Ivanhoe Martin in Perry Henzell’s 1972 film. The equally iconic soundtrack was built around songs Cliffwrote for the film, but is rounded out by a who’s who of reggae’s first wave, including Desmond Dekker and Toots & the Maytals. 100 MINUTES OF WILD JAMDOWN STYLE Author Marlon James on the film ‘Rockers’ Back in 1975, Ted Bafaloukos flew to Jamaica to make a reggae documentary. By 1978, he had a feature called Rockers. Don’t bother watching for the plot…

When it comes to iconic product design, there’s Dieter Rams’s appliances. Eero Saarinen’s seating. Steve Jobs’s hardware. So…are you ready for the Girolami-Poopat sneaker? Because, at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, it’s beginning to look like the Common Projects Achilles will stand the test of time. In some ways, it already has. Flavio Girolami and Peter Poopat’s silhouettes are now as recognizable as the biggest styles from Nike or Adidas. And the duo’s cult following has grown into a full-blown religion thanks to highwattage boosts from Kanye West, Drake, Alexander Skarsgård, and Aziz Ansari, among many others. “We’re always on the hunt for the perfect thing,” Poopat says. For the designers, that hunt has turned into a way of life that goes far beyond peerless sneaker-stitching. Girolami recently completed a…

Robert Downey Jr. keeps a couple of offices out in Venice Beach, near the water, in which he and his wife, Susan, and a handful of other people manage his affairs. There are development projects from their film-andtelevision production company, Team Downey: a new Perry Mason; long-gestating Downey vehicles like the third Sherlock Holmes and a live-action Pinocchio; and something new, based on an old sprawling treatment from actor Steve McQueen, called Yucatan, “kind of an action-adventure story,” Downey says, “almost like an apotheosis of this guy as he goes into these cenotes and caves.” Random Act Funding, their new charitable foundation, is based out of here, too. Mostly you get the sense that it’s nice for Downey to have somewhere to go during the day—he’s the kinetic-type guy who…

Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys—the man was born with a name so brand-ready he basically had to become an entrepreneur. But for the long-limbed and quick-to-smile creator of the rigorously assembled yet completely relaxed clothing line and expanding series of men’s stores that bear his name, the membrane that separates work from home is so thin and porous that it’s nonexistent. How permeable? On a picnic table in his Atlanta backyard is a sea of denim Tretorn sneakers, each pair a subtly different shade of blue. The shoes are baking in the mid-afternoon Georgia sun because Sid has run all of them through his home washing machine. His wife, Ann—together the couple have five daughters, and…

Ziggy Marley AGE: 47 ESSENTIAL ALBUM: Conscious Party (1988), produced by members of Talking Heads If the world’s expectations ever fazed Bob’s firstborn son, he’s never let it show. “I don’t carry any weight,” he says. “This is a family. Whatever we are is the same way we grow up—nothing has changed, really. Each individual role is important.” He sees himself less as a patriarch than as a “voice of reason.” Still, there’s a clear “hierarchy of the elders, the adults, which is Cedella, me, and Sharon (the oldest). Stephen is a bridge to the younger ones, who wasn’t around Bob a lot.” If anything, his siblings’ success—both in their own ventures and in shepherding the Marley brand— has freed him to be more personal in the studio. His 15th…

For years now, Japanese designers have re-invigorated and improved classic American styles with a fanatical attention to detail and historical accuracy. At the moment, the Osaka label Ring Jacket, with its take on Neapolitan tailoring, is the one that has American suit nerds all worked up. But it turns out this white-hot label was actually founded 60-plus years ago. Here’s the story: Way back in 1954, Jhoichi Fukushima (call him Fukushima-san) was an insurance salaryman, disappointed that his ready-to-wear suits couldn’t hang with his clotheshorse father’s bespoke goods. So he decided to solve the problem himself, opening a factory and hiring veteran tailors to create exacting reproductions of the Kennedy-era Ivy-style suits that were then so popular in Japan. By the 1980s, though, Italian tailoring had exploded— so Fukushima-san and…

A decade ago, I stood in a department store trying to decide between two button-down shirts. One was made in China and cost $188. The other was made in Italy, and the tag read $120. Considering the disparity in wages between Europe and China, the prices should have been reversed. Even as someone who has worked around the apparel industry my whole life, I was baffled. But the moment led me down a road that has shaped not only the majority of my purchases since but also my whole philosophy on what it means to buy for value. When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I was fascinated by factories and the complexity and scale of what goes into manufacturing the things we use. The preoccupation intensified when…

Audi RS 7 $106,500 0–60 MPH: 3.7 seconds HORSEPOWER: 560 TOP SPEED: 174 mph Cartier Drive $6,250 WIDTH: 41 mm MOVEMENT: In-house LAUNCH: May 2016 THE NEW EXECUTIVE STARTER KIT For decades now, the surefire way to project that crystalclear corner-office image has been to get the big German sedan and the regal watch— and hire your first wealth manager. That’s still pretty much true, but the brands are shifting. The new move is Audi—the RS 7 takes the sedan to deranged levels (174 mph!). And Cartier might be best known for making women melt, but its Drive is masculine as hell and sits as nicely on your wrist as the RS 7 does in your new reserved parking spot. A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 $49,500 CASE: Platinum MANUFACTURED:…

ESCAPE THE BIG TOURIST MACHINE When you announce a trip to Jamaica, the standard response is: Negril or Mo Bay? Here’s your answer: neither. Port Antonio, where Errol Flynn once hosted glamorous postwar bacchanalia for Hollywood starlets and the playboys who loved them, is a pristine swath of North Coast that couldn’t be farther from the island’s beer-chugging springbreak scene. There are a few legit spots to stay, but we like the Trident Hotel and the castle next door, which channels the nearby Flynn estate’s bygone old-world grandeur. It’s within striking distance of town, where you have to eat at least one lunch at Piggy’s Jerk Centre, famous for the all-the-way-authentic jerk chicken. It’s also a short drive from the epic private beach you see here, Frenchman’s Cove ($10 entry…