Innehållsförteckning för Summer 2017 från GQ Style

At GQ Style, we see ourselves as an American magazine that’s international in scope. Since we launched in May 2016, we’ve shot features in Jamaica, Zermatt, Tokyo, Paris, and Milan, with more far-flung adventures in the works. But this summer, we felt called to shift gears and explore the exotic wonders of our own backyard. At a moment when the country’s psyche is stratified and stressed-out, it felt like the right time to find some common ground. Common ground like the gypsum dunes at White Sands, for instance. So we decided to do a summer cover story shot in three of America’s great national parks. And our first call was to the great photographer Ryan McGinley. I first encountered Ryan when I started hanging around downtown N.Y.C., in 2003. He…

DYED HARD WORN BY Michael Lockley, model and street-style wave-maker HOW TO GET THE LOOK Skip the CVS dye kit—go to a salon and get it done right. MICHAEL SAYS “Designers want to play with my hair and trim it up. I’m not mentioning no names, but this is my look and my brand. I’m not going to change that for your show.” “The long-hair trend is a reaction. There are so many good barbershops now, so everybody looks the same when they leave the shop. I guess having long hair is a way to mark yourself as different from all those guys. A lot of times, with a fresh new cut, people see a haircut first and you second. So you have to stay away from the barbershop. You…

1. Turquoise 2. Tonal Seersucker 3. Artful Bandannas 4. A Bike We Like 5. Global Weaves 6. Cool-Dad Tourist Gear THE YOUNG AND THE RIGHTEOUS “Bob Dylan, James Brown, Zora Neale Hurston.” The actor Jesse Williams is naming socially aware artists. “James Baldwin, for Chrissake!” It can be done, he argues. You can be fashionable and conscious. Successful and woke. In fact, I’d argue, it’s simply the modern way to be. And Williams proves it on a daily basis. He’s Middle America’s heartthrob on Grey’s Anatomy, Paris’s latest obsession in Kenzo’s spring campaign, and a steadfast voice in a time of harsh racial conflict. “I’m more comfortable around social-justice work,” he says. “I’ve been doing it much longer, and it means more to me. But I need both to sustain…

SPRING BREAKERS. THE BLING RING. EX MACHINA. ROOM. And, of course, MOONLIGHT. There are more glamorous things to be, in Hollywood, than an independent distribution company. For instance, an actress. Or a director. Or a screenwriter. Key grip. Maybe even that guy with a two-way radio who keeps you from walking through a movie set. Film-distribution companies tend to be important but invisible: They buy finished films, cut trailers, make posters, and put movies into movie theaters—or, more often these days, dump them onto VOD, never to be heard from again. So it was strange, if you were a moviegoer in 2013, to see the A24 logo pop up again and again before movies as varied and weird as Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, James…

YSL’s A rid Oasis DESIGNER: Madison Cox KEY PROJECT: Yves Saint Laurent’s Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech Built in the 1920s and ’30s by the French painter Jacques Majorelle, the Jardin Majorelle was purchased by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, in 1980. The couple saved the property from being demolished by Moroccan businessmen—and turned it into their lavishly decorated vacation escape. “The first time I saw it, it was in a disheveled state,” says landscape designer Madison Cox, who was hired by Saint Laurent and Bergé to oversee the garden and is now its director. “The idea was to come in and revive it. What I’ve tried to do is enrich the variety of plants, to maintain the tradition of both native plants as well as things imported from…

Page 20. Clockwise from top left: Grant Cornett; Josephine Schiele; Grant Cornett; Josephine Schiele (2); Daria Kobayashi Ritch; Grant Cornett; Daria Kobayashi Ritch; Josephine Schiele (jeans); Grant Cornett (sandals) Pages 40–41. Post-Imperial and Hermès: Matt Martin. All other photographs: Josephine Schiele. Prop stylist: Claire Tedaldi at Halley Resources. Page 58. From left: courtesy of Tokuro Aoyagi; courtesy of Rintaro Ishige (2) Page 59. Clockwise from top: courtesy of Tokuro Aoyagi (2); courtesy of Needles (3) Page 60. Courtesy of Rintaro Ishige (3) Page 61. Clockwise from top left: courtesy of Rintaro Ishige; courtesy of Tokuro Aoyagi; Ronald Grant Archive/Alamy Stock Photo; courtesy of Needles (3); Josiah Kamau/ BuzzFoto/Getty Images Page 62. Clockwise from bottom left: courtesy of Tom Frost; courtesy of Terri Laine; courtesy of Tim Davis; courtesy of Donnie…

Last fall I was with a few friends on a golf trip and I noticed something interesting happening with my buddy Aaron. Each day, when we got to a new course, the caddies would crowd around him, asking him questions about his new clubs. They were excited and engaged in a way I had never seen before. It got me thinking about the value proposition behind the things we buy and how they represent us. This is apparent when you purchase a new car or build out your wardrobe, but aren’t there some less obvious corners of your life that can be dialed way up? It became obvious on that trip that sometimes when ordinary things are radically elevated, they can become nontraditional luxuries that spark off-the-charts excitement for a…

China has the Great Wall. India has the Taj Mahal. France has the Ei≠el Tower and Versailles. In America, we have the national parks— our country’s natural works of art. The parks are our monuments and playgrounds, hosting over 300 million visitors a year. So we took BRAD PITT & photographer RYAN McGINLEY to three parks in eight days to explore America’s greatest wonders. In White Sands the dunes are so sculptural and modern. To see them white and re_ecting white— the sky’s actually darker than that ground. It’s an odd, beautiful place. ˜ BRAD PITT ABOUT THESE PARKS To choose the locations for this summertime celebration of America’s national parks, Brad Pitt, Ryan McGinley, and GQ Style all collaborated on potential destinations. Pitt requested the lunar dunes of White Sands National Monument. Ryan…