Ciao, menswear maestros. Whether or not if you’ve received a phone alert containing the words “polar vortex” and/or “winter storm warning” in the last 48 hours, ’tis the season to assess the weather dexterity of your wardrobe. How are you keeping warm these days? Do you try to bundle up with as much flair as […]
When the mercury plummets, there are essentially two ways to get bundled up: The single Big Ass Coat (BAC) or going onion-mode and layering up. And while the giant puffer may have its champions, for menswear enthusiasts, nothing beats layering when it comes to garments-per-fit. And at the heart of any conversation around layering is […]
Ever since The Bear dropped back in 2022, it’s been consistently called one of the most stylish shows on TV—and as its star, Jeremy Allen White has taken the kind words and ran with them. From Carmy’s best-selling patchwork wool zip-up to his Ralph Lauren deck jacket, White’s handsome, deeply misunderstood chef is a sucker […]
When it comes to getting dressed, we tend to rhapsodize about the virtues of “wardrobe essentials for men” as if everyone knows what we mean. On the Menswear Hierarchy of Needs, wardrobe essentials might encompass the perfect white tee, a killer pair of jeans, and the loafers you can wear with them 9 months of […]
The best winter clothes for men aren’t nice-to-haves: they’re essentials through and through. Depending on where you are, winter is either coming, or it’s already there, or maybe it never really left (shout out to GQ‘s small-but-mighty Alaskan readership). Whatever the meteorological situation in your neck of the woods, though, getting yourself the proper cold-weather […]
When GQ acknowledged the mall brand renaissance, I had little way of knowing what it would portend. Until I made my best purchase of the season: Madewell’s double-breasted coat, a boss-man topper crafted from a swaddly Italian alpaca-wool blend. Omar Atwan Omar Atwan I’ll get into the specifics of the coat shortly, but first, a […]
When I was 9 years old, wandering around Gordon’s Gateway to Sports in Cos Cob, Connecticut, I came across a bright yellow North Face fleece jacket. Trying it on catalyzed a sort of religious experience, so I pulled the smallest size off the rack and presented it to my parents, hoping it would have the […]
As Don Draper on Mad MenJon Hamm played a major role in remaking menswear in the late aughts and early 2010s. By the time the show premiered in 2007, tie and lapel widths were already shrinking—thanks to the efforts of designers like then-Dior Homme boss Hedi Slimane—but the AMC series accelerated the process, turning slim-cut, […]
Keanu Reeves has a knack for uncovering rock-solid, surprisingly affordable menswear grails. He’s done it before with Eurohiker fleeces and Italian-made boots. And yesterday in London, during a book signing for his new novel The Book of Elsewhere, he did it again with a denim jacket from an under-the-radar label—one that plays directly into one […]
We may only be at the beginning of winter, but if you haven’t broken out the big coat yet, consider yourself lucky. There are many varieties of big coat—puffers, ski coats, parkas—and while we’re into all of them, when we think about big coats, we think about topcoats. The men’s best topcoats are those you […]
