One of the best a part of working at GQ? Everybody sitting to the appropriate and left of you is the flyest particular person you’ve ever met. The worst a part of working at GQ? Everybody sitting to the appropriate and left of you…is the flyest particular person you’ve ever met. In our places of work, getting dressed is an olympic-level pursuit, and the competitors is fiercer than the Challengers climax.
So we requested 4 of probably the most ferocious dressers at GQ HQ—senior style author Samuel Hine; style editor Brandon Tan; fashion editor Yang-Yi Goh; and senior commerce editor Avidan Grossman—to spend a few hours doing what they do finest: on-line procuring. The result’s a galaxy-brain overview of the state of menswear right now, sourced immediately from the brains that decided what you’ll be carrying this summer season—and 6 months from now, too.
You may store the lot of it at our first-ever Editor Wishlist boutique, an all-killer, no-filler assortment that spans new arrivals, perennial go-tos, and private grails—owned, coveted, and painstakingly curated by us. Maintain scrolling for a sneak peek on the inaugural spherical of selects, and verify again right here all through the season as extra of our colleagues get in on the motion.
With summer season getting underway on the East Coast, I am pondering—as all the time!—about informal class, which I am discovering in beachy anoraks, light-weight knits, lengthy, lean denim, and leather-based sandals. I additionally discover myself drawn to hero equipment because the climate will get hotter. Summer season is all about dressing merely and letting a stupendous watch or a brand new pair of sun shades do the speaking.
I have a tendency to construct my wardrobe round a strong mixture of staple and assertion items. So it doesn’t matter what time of yr it’s, I’m eager about on a regular basis, seasonally-agnostic hits—an amazing pair of denims, a trusted office-to-airport tote—and extra situation-specific fare, like a summer season wedding-ready necktie or color-blocked satin Bermuda shorts. Ask any virtuosic conductor: The hot button is realizing when to let every one sing.
Summer season is all about ping-ponging relentlessly from place to put—a espresso assembly to a yard BBQ to a seaside hold to your cousin’s vacation spot wedding ceremony—with out succumbing to warmth stroke or swaglessness within the course of. I made these picks with that caustic, ready-for-anything vitality in thoughts: the stuff is all versatile and crisp sufficient to maintain you feeling contemporary in any scenario, whereas additionally remaining simply offbeat and freaky sufficient that can assist you not lose your edge.
The primary secret to trying actually cool when it’s actually sizzling? Embrace the sweat: it’s inevitable, and everybody appears higher—youthful, sexier, happier—with a skinny glaze of hard-earned dewiness. The second secret: work out do extra with much less. Chasing the louche class of ‘80s-era Armani? Tuck a breezy linen work shirt into pavement-skimming silk trousers—and nix the boots for barely-there sandals. Craving to conjure the sun-kissed ease of ‘90s-era J.Crew? Strive a light polo and thrashed denims, anchored by rich-dad boat footwear. Each of these references are on my temper board proper now, and I’ll be residing in variations on the theme all summer season lengthy.
