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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 […]
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For thousands of years, signet rings have meant just a little bit more than your typical metal band. Used historically as an alternative to a signature (get it, signet), a signet ring may have more of a decorative function nowadays, worn with a gold or silver chain, say, but it still remains a symbol of
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You’ve heard of hair pomade, gel, clay, and paste, but what about the best hair cream for men? Before you settle on a styling product, you should give hair cream a try. Hair cream can help with styling, frizz-control, volume, and curl support, and without the stiff, crusty texture you sometimes get with gels and
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When Grossman and GQ style editor Yang-Yi Goh put together the inaugural class of Recommends All-Stars, there was only one pair of sweatpants they considered. Les Tien specializes in sweats of the highest order, they wrote then, cut with a tailor’s eye for precision and an Angeleno’s appreciation for pared-back ease. In the year or
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If you’ve started or are interested in starting a weight-loss drug like Ozempic, Wegovy, or Zepbound, you are far from alone. Use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, aka GLP-1s, increased 40-fold between 2017 and 2021, and it’s estimated that roughly 2–3 percent of the US population is currently using these drugs. In short order, GLP-1s
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When professional harmonica player Rob Paparozzi was tapped to help Timothée Chalamet play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, he wasnât exactly familiar with the 28-year-old sensation. âNever heard of him,â 72-year-old Paparozzi told GQ. âI had mentioned it to my son and he said, âYou don’t know who he is?! That’s the guy from
When it comes to West Coast basketball, the Paytons—Gary “The Glove” Sr. and Gary Dwayne II—are royalty. Murals of the Oakland-bred Payton Sr. abound on East Oakland’s streets, where the Hall of Famer cut his teeth on his way to becoming, in 1996, the first ever point guard to win the NBA Defensive Player of
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You’ve gotta hand it to Luca Guadagnino. The director picked up an impressive amount of critical and commercial love for the gay indie romance Call Me by Your Name in 2017, and has worked tirelessly to both recoup and challenge that adoration ever since. He confused everyone by remaking the horror classic Suspiria as a
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They had realized, after all, that fans were now following them from show to show, especially in the States, so they should be taking more risks—changing the sets, changing the songs, changing the sounds themselves. They could only prepare so much to be that free. “Each night is so involved now, so that it could
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Like most of you, and every other media outlet under the sun, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite songs released in the previous 12 months. Year-end lists made by music journalists are always pretty funny. Especially these days, you can see them trying to thread multiple needles at once, mixing full-on poptimist choices with
