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Once More, With Feeling

39 Gifts to Ring in a Whole New Year • The most informed minds in the GQ universe drop their wish list for a season of endless party, optimal chill and enormous fits.

TV’s Prince of Darkness • As House of the Dragon’s uber-creep Prince Aemond, Ewan Mitchell cemented himself as 2024’s freakiest TV villain.

In Haider We Hope • The role of a fashion designer is one usually forged in chaos and fired down by “creative differences”. But on the eve of a new Tom Ford directorship, Haider Ackermann has never felt more free.

THE NEW LOCALS • In disparate corners of the country, neighbourhood restaurants, sceney bakeries and home-from-home pubs are creating communities all of their own.

FORNO • EAST LONDON

HIGHER GROUND • MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE

AKARA • BOROUGH YARDS, SOUTH LONDON

THE BULL • CHARLBURY, THE COTSWOLDS

SARGASSO • MARGATE, KENT

TOLLINGTON’S • FINSBURY PARK, NORTH LONDON

A Companion for Your Wrist • Audemars Piguet’s new release with artist Brian Donnelly, AKA Kaws, brings high-art hype to the world of pop-watch collabs.

You Can’t Miss Naomi Ackie • After a stop-start ascent, the actor and star of Blink Twice is finally getting her flowers. Her past disappointments have taught her not to take it lightly.

THE CLASS OF 2024 • Three OSCAR-WINNERS. Two OLYMPIANS. A ROCK BAND. AND A CONSTELLATION OF GLOBAL STARS.

RICHARD GADD BARES IT ALL • With Baby Reindeer, Gadd turned a vulnerable, radically confessional story about surviving sexual abuse into the year’s most unlikely TV hit. That, it turns out, was the easy part.

LOUIS PARTRIDGE ISN’T READING THE COMMENTS • In Disclaimer, the ascendant young actor – and internet obsession – put himself on everyone’s radars. He’s not letting it change his course.

AMBIKA MOD IS THE CHILL GIRL’S LEADING LADY • With her effortlessly natural performance in One Day, the actor has gone from an improv troupe to the lead in a smash hit on Netflix. She can still see the funny side.

FONTAINES DC’S NEW ROMANTICISM • The riotous Irish band – fans include Paul Mescal, Cillian Murphy, and Harry Styles – owned this summer by doing something nobody expected: softening up.

KIT HARINGTON’S INDUSTRIOUS RETURN • With starring roles in both Industry and Slave Play, the actor has hard-launched an era of risk-taking.

ARMANDO IANNUCCI IS TIRED OF YOUR VEEP COMPARISONS • The acerbic genius behind The Thick of It, and now HBO’s The Franchise, is used to political satire forecasting the real world. It’s less funny in an election year.

RAPMAN REASSEMBLES THE SUPERHERO HIT • With the MCU exhausted and other comic-book franchises in the doldrums, the creator of Netflix hit Supacell is proving that fresh stories and perspectives are still out there.

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SLAWN’S ART WORLD INSURGENCY • Luxury brands, mega-galleries and celebrity collectors are fighting for a piece of the cult Nigerian artist. True to form, he doesn’t really care.

ADAM PEATY HAS NEVER BEEN PROUDER • When Peaty came second in the 100m breaststroke final this summer, it looked like a defeat. But after what he overcame to get there, it might be his greatest achievement of all.

STEVE MCQUEEN’S PRIORITY IS THE PICTURE • In an ailing Hollywood, the Oscar-winning director has proved himself to be one of the...