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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, used to be just a city of ten-gallon hats and the Grand Ole Opry. Now it’s the most electric spot in the South, thanks to a cast of transplanted designers, architects, chefs, and rock ’n’ rollers. Here, twenty-five locals show you how to tear up Music City in threads worthy of this reborn southern scene

Ben Watts ∂ The Whigs (upcoming album: Enjoy the Company) in ∑ Tennessee Titans The Hermitage Jason McCourty Hotel and Kenny Britt

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∑ Phillip Nappi at Peter ∂ Nick Dryden, Nappi boots, co-owned architect with wife Dana OPENING PAGE The dress and boots New Denim Isabel Marant vintage boro quilt and drop cloth Manifesto Imogene + Willie

Dress it up or dress OPPOSITE PAGE, CLOCKWISE it down; wear it in FROM TOP LEFT pristine dark selvage jacket $475 Ami or ripped-to-high-hell shirt $158 sun-bleached blue. Rogue jeans $790 The days of Canadian- Dior Homme tuxedo jokes are over. jacket $1,495 So are the days of Polo Ralph Lauren jeans $820 jeans being relegated Balmain Homme to weekend wear. jacket $1,120 Rock a denim shirt and plaid shirt $840 Junya Watanabe with a suit; wrap a Man bow tie around it. jeans $225 Riviera Club x Mix blue denim with Lucky Brand black or white. Cuff henley $125 or roll your jeans to Todd Snyder jeans $720 show off some ankle, Dior Homme or let them stack just sweater $248 the right amount. In Cardigan by Lynne Hiriak Nashville, there are jeans $180 no rules. Wait, scratch Diesel that—there’s one: Try henley $298 to look half as slick as John Varvatos jeans $125 these upstarts here. Denim & Supply Ralph Lauren boots $695 Peter Nappi

blazer $395 Boss Orange shirt $198 Steven Alan jeans $225 AG Adriano Goldschmied

THIS PAGE cardigan $178 Tommy Hilfiger shirt $98 Hilfiger Denim bow tie $110 Otis James Nashville jeans $630 hat Borsalino at JJ Hat Center belt J.Crew for additional credits, see page 129. where to buy it? go to gq.com/go /fashiondirectories

∂ Otis James, hat and tie maker ROCK THIS WAY SUDS & GRUB THIS PAGE jacket $3,850 shirt $495 For vinyl-digging, hit You’ll probably and jeans $350 Prada GRIMEY’ S , then stumble upon Teresa shoes $695 The GQ Guide to the New Nashville Dsquared2 , Mason’s MAS TACOS hat ’s label truck as you tool Borsalino at JJ Hat headquarters, record around town; if not, hit Center WHERE TO CRASH LOOK LOCAL ON WOMEN store, and music venue. her brick-and-mortar dress, pants, and boots National acts like the in East Nashville. Isabel Marant tank top THE HERMITAGE First stop: IMOGENE + Delta Spirit and Prefer eating with a Calvin Klein Underwear HOTEL is a grand old WILLIE, in a former St. Vincent play THE fork? Stop by CITY southern hotel that gas station in the CANNERY BALLROOM; HOUSE for kale salad, OPPOSITE PAGE also feels gloriously emergent 12 South you’ll find local ear- belly-ham pizza, three-piece suit $3,315 Yves Saint Laurent modern: In one week, neighborhood, for a throttlers like garage and Carolina brook shirt $188 you might crash a pair of their ubiquitous band the Ettes at trout. Follow dinner Diesel belt debutante ball, then jeans. PETER NAPPI, motorcycle-shop-by- with whiskey and Levi’s pocket square run into Pharrell in Germantown, has day, DIY-venue-by- a movie at NO. 308, Kaufman’s Army & Navy Williams. (Be sure your badass (Italian, night THE ZOMBIE or set up shop at sunglasses Persol to visit the Art Deco handmade) boots. SHOP. And be sure to pioneering speakeasy where to buy it? men’s room in the Accessorize with OTIS book your trip home THE PATTERSON go to gq.com/go hotel’s OAK BAR for JAMES hats and ties, for Tuesday morning: HOUSE, opened by /fashiondirectories the most stylish cut by hand at the The Keep On Movin’ the Goldberg brothers leak you’ll ever take.) old Marathon Motor dance party at THE 5 in 2009, when the The RAMADA near Works factory. Last SPOT on Monday nights new Nashville was the stadium provides stop: a clip and a is not to be missed. still a pipe dream. a divier experience. shave from Michael —WILL WELCH The draw? Guitar. Martin at PARLOUR & Shaped. Pool. JUKE; you might run into regulars . 121

∂ The Ettes perform at The Zombie Shop

∑ J.Wes Yoder, novelist, in East Nashville THIS PAGE, OPPOSITE PAGE, ON MEN, FROM LEFT CLOCKWISE FROM cardigan $450 TOP LEFT Ralph Lauren Black plaid shirt $290 Label Denim Armani Jeans shirt $69 L.L.Bean Signature sports jacket $595 tie $135 Polo Ralph Lauren Bespoken shirt $70 122 Denim & Supply vest $325 Ralph Lauren Rag & Bone jeans $250 henley $59 Imogene + Willie Velva Sheen jeans $250 blouse and skirt Imogene + Willie Isabel Marant blazer $1,390 sports jacket $2,180 Maison Martin Bottega Veneta Margiela shirt $395 shirt $165 Levi’s Vintage Our Legacy Clothing jeans $250 jeans $80 Imogene + Willie Calvin Klein Jeans ∂ Imogene + Willie vintage jacket owners Matt and Hollister Carrie Eddmenson shirt $68 (far right) with and jeans $64 their staff Levi’s hair by david von cannon at streeters. makeup by jo strettell using per-fékt. prop styling by ruby guidara. produced by mauria kiernan. for additional credits, see page 129. where to buy it? go to gq.com/go /fashiondirectories ∑ Nikki Lane, singer ∂ Michael Martin and High Class shaves Joshua Hillbilly store owner, Black Wilkins at and Teresa Mason, Parlour & Juke. Mas Tacos owner

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