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

CONTRIBUTORS

THE EDITOR’S LETTER

TRENDS

DIRECTORY

Billy Bultheel • Otherworldly composer and performance artist

Slim Soledad • Genre-bending musician and DJ

Paul Herrmann • Poignantly personal imagemaker

Lyra Pramuk • Electronic music alchemist

Sam Morris • X-rated artist and director

I want C★ndy • As the first fashion glossy for the trans community releases a book celebrating its first decade, editor Luis Venegas shares an exclusive extract

ACCESSORIES • The new pantheon of modern classics, as seen on living statues worthy of the Acropolis

PORTU GUESE SHOES APICCAPS

NEWS

Bolt from the blue • Bad Boy, the sophisticated new masculine fragrance by Carolina Herrera, is a scent for men who don’t play by the rules

The performer • The Justice League actor Ezra Miller juxtaposes superstardom with the enigma and dizzying pronouncements of a modern oracle.

The prodigy • With a fresh spin on California soul and a quietly disruptive style, 21-year-old musician and producer Steve Lacy merges Gen-Z attitude with hard-won wisdom, always remaining in control

Wanderer

Visions of man • A new London photography exhibition holds up a magnifying glass to the complexities – and heady pleasures – of macho archetypes and queer masculinity

BEEF

The Boss • Flipping between cocky machismo and frilly femininity, soul-baring pop star King Princess is impossible to label. That’s exactly how she likes it

Revolution Girl Style Now! • I was a teenager 1,000 years ago in the Nineties, when what kind of music icon you could be when you grew up seemed limited.

Young Ma • Not content with tearing down boundaries, the out lesbian rapper is committed to opening doors for others to do the same

Syd • As well as being the driving force of Gen-Z rap crews, Syd is reaching new heights as the silky R&B soundtrack to queer romance

Muna • With their brand of personal-yet-political electronic pop, the anti-Trump trio are writing the sound of LGBTQ defiance

The Romanticist • Merging Arabic sounds with western sensibilities, and highfashion kudos with thrift-store panache, Belgian singer Tamino is a pop star for our times

Broader than Broadway

The Hometown Hero • The face of Carolina Herrera’s Bad Boy fragrance is the multiplexes’ favourite villain. Now pivoting to indie movies Ed Skrein is a refreshing antidote to an ever-cynical industry

NEW YORK CITY BOY

NARCISSUS