British GQ Style

Published twice a year, GQ Style is the authority on men’s fashion, offering a comprehensive overview of the current fashion season. With the most experienced men’s fashion team ever assembled, GQ Style delivers the latest on fashion, style and all notions of “cool”. A magazine for aficionados and enthusiasts alike, it is cosmopolitan, individual and unique. Frankly, if it isn’t GQ Style, then you don’t need to bother about it. GQ Style will guide you safely through any style and fashion pitfalls that might befall you. Write in with your style conundrums and GQ Style’s Style Shrink will make all your worries go away. Learn who’s hot and who’s not with the most stylish man of the moment awards, and learn why – so you can emulate the sharpest looking of them, and avoid those foolish fashion faux pas.

GQ Style • GQ Style. Issue 29

The Contributors

The Editor’s letter • When I started 2019 a psychic asked me to pick my word of the year. My mind cycled through options, before two emerged through the mist – transformation and empowerment.

The FRONT • Fashion’s a game, play to win with lashings of luxe eveningwear, trends as seen in the stars and museumworthy accessories to fall for. Ready, set… Style!

Trends

Dark fantasies • Photographer Danielle Levitt’s new book captures a decade of Rick Owens’ black magic

Watches

Dior redux • With help from his friends, Kim Jones celebrates his first year at the house

Handbook

He, She, They • The ‘everyone is welcome’, boundary-busting collective host special nights where freedom of expression is a given

Shopping

Totally Versatile • The best way to maximise your winter wardrobe? Look no further than corduroy, this season’s most versatile fabric. M&S has you covered from classic to casual

Michael B Jordan • From leading blockbusters to a new Coach collaboration and championing diversity in Hollywood, the New Jersey multi-hyphenate breaks down his 21st century approach to being a leading man

FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY • There’s limitless invention to these prismatic takes on the spectrum’s darkest shade – so good they belong in a gallery

How Creed reinvented cologne • The House Of Creed’s new Aventus Cologne strikes the perfect balance of strength and subtlety

Horoscopes • See what the stars have in store for your life, career, relationships and personal style this season

The new classics • The Row’s menswear line is the last word in modern luxury

Shopping

YOUTH IN REVOLT • Britain has a proud history of rebellion and there’s never been more reason to speak truth to power. Meet four young activists fighting for change in nightlife, tech, politics, and POC representation, creating communities and demanding their voices be heard

HYPER HYPER • Flannels bursts onto London’s fashion scene with the opening of its new flagship store on Oxford Street. Jump in with its ten most iconic brands

The BOOK • Strap in and surrender to this season’s most intoxicating fashion. Masked cowboy Orville Peck brings kinky menace, Italian stud Mahmood smoulders, and Latin heartthrob Maluma heats up Miami in a Spring/Summer preview. Plus! John Waters, Gwendoline Christie, and the untold history of musicians using flamboyance as armour. It’s Autumn/Winter, baby.

Orville Peck • Permanently masked, clad in a carousel of flamboyant outfits, the fringe country star might seem the embodiment of a carefully constructed stage persona – but he says he’s never felt closer to his true self

Chakra

Mahmood

The rise and fall of Spud

Maluma • The Colombian sex bomb has long dreamed of global dominance on his own terms. Finally, the English-speaking world is catching up

Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ • From...