GQ’s guide to the 65 suits, shoes, people, stores, labels, accessories and style secrets that a man needs to know right now There’s never been a better N0. No. time to be a 03 man who cares about style. New labels, sick shops, bespoke socks… Let’s start The options are astounding.

no. with the 02 But that also means there colors you’re are too many options. There’s a lot wearing. of clutter out there. Think of this as Think about updating them. Designers are your road map to an awesomely stylish all about a new palette of dusty pastels (but often overwhelming) new world. right now. In fact, men are embracing all kinds of things we once ignored.

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1 D.S. & D. Bowmakers to have the Japanese N0. A Brooklyn-made make its incense. fragrance that $32, lafcony.com smells woody and expensive, like 4 Juniper Ridge the inside of a Siskiyou cedar sachet concert violin. $110, Totally idiotproof. dsanddurga.com Stick one in your gym No. 05 bag, closet, desk. Let’s not call it “ecru.” 2 Cire Trudon $10, juniperridge.com You can say Ernesto candle 3 In addition to red pants, we dig these the word Leather scented. 5 In Fiore Fumée 04 jeans, which are so off-white they’re almost “unisex” The same kind D’Ambre Parfum khaki. Like white jeans without the glare. Marie Antoinette Solide without lit up during the Smells ancient, laughing. most debauched like it was discovered ragers of the 1700s. in a reliquary in a The biggest from front 3 $80, ciretrudon.com fallen cathedral. Gilded Age $239 urbandaddy.com trend in scent is Swipe on your wrists Levi’s Made & Crafted $198 gender-neutral. 3 Santa Maria and neck if you’re neimanmarcus.com These are our Ralph Lauren Black Label Denim $350 Novella Incensi not into “spritzing” ralphlauren.com favorites for Even this legendary cologne. $65, J.Crew $108 jcrew.com body and home. Italian brand knows infiore.net

2 gq. com No. There’s a new shoe that does pretty 07 much everythinG. 3 We have no idea what to call No. this—desert sneak? sneak-a-boot?— 06 and don’t care. Wear them with Even your key chain a cotton suit, with shorts (no has gone fetishistic. socks), maybe even naked around the house. (Okay, maybe not.) • The people at Klhip completely reengineered the nail clipper 3 We asked Michael Williams of the website using surgical-grade metal. Think of it as overkill—glorious overkill. A Continuous Lean to empty Pierre Hardy $450 pierrehardy.com his (very curated) pockets. nail clipper $50 kLHip.com

• A flash drive that looks like a • Carrying a comb was de rigueur pocketknife says, “I seem rugged, in the 1950s. Well, it’s back, now that but really I just need the entire leather-goods geniuses Billykirk first season of Game of Thrones on got all artisanal on your coif with me at all times.” this handstitched case.

32Gb flash drive $150 comb case $45 billykirk.com swissknifeshop.com

gq endorses tom schierlitz • Love the pry bar, screwdrivers, • This pen is made in Nevada for and tweezers. But it’s the lighter NASA. I use it to scribble in this that’s most handy, whether for a Japanese reporter’s notebook, bottle rocket or a campfire. even when I’m not on the moon. everyday carry kit $44 notebook $19 postalco.net kaufmaNn-mercantile.com Pen $30 spacepen.com

No. 08 A piece of ageless advice from burberry’s christopher bailey

• When not being used to make • A flask of booze is an easy way “It’s good to be rather unsentimental jet engines, titanium is the perfect to make friends. An English about your grooming. I use one spray of material for the di∞cult task of pewter flask by Wentworth adds fragrance and that’s it. Don’t think too keeping your cash organized. top notes of envy. much about it; just get on with it.” money clip $30 flask $68 superiortitanium.com kaufmaNn-mercantile.com illustration by Zohar Lazar still lifes david rinella

3 gq. com N o. No. 09 Of course, sometimes you don’t need to 1 0 buy a damn thing. A watch doesn’t 3 Just upgrade the gear you’ve already got. have to be expensive to be a status 7 symbol. Switch out the laces on your bucks 3 In the great for colored timepiece arms ones to get that Mark race, win by McNairy not competing. effect. Uniform Wares pairs inexpensive materials with smart, minimal design. This watch 7 says: Fuck money. Sleep in your I’ve got style. suit (yes, really) till it molds to your shape.

Uniform Wares $180 uniformwares.com

7 Take a black tee and yank it till it gets that drapey effect. “It’s simple: Everyone should have a black No. blazer.”—domenico dolce 11

7 “The best style advice With a cheap suit, came from my A piece of ageless advice from switch out the crappy parents: Be honest. buttons Just be yourself.” dolce & for genuine horn. —stefano gabbana gabbana

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No. Your do-rag is the new pocket 12 square. 3 A simple plan: Go to your army-navy store with $25. Buy a handful of bandannas. Take them home and wash them. Then stick one in the breast pocket of your jacket before you walk out the door.

RTH $25 (blue & red) rthshop.com Kaufman’s Army & Navy $3 kaufmansarmynavy.com

4 gq. com Mark Mc Nairy New Amsterdam $425 markmcnairy.com Tom Ford $550 212-359-0300

Sid Mashburn O’Keeffe $475 $450 Gucci $575 gucci.com mrporter.com Cole Haan $178 colehaan.com sidmashburn.com

Esquivel $750 esquivelshoes.com Tommy Hilfiger $298 tommy.com

M ark Mc Nairy Mr. B’s for aldo New Amsterdam $150 gentlemens $450 Allen Edmonds $335 allenedmonds.com boutique.com Sperry Top-Sider $90 sperrytopsider.com markmcnairy.com

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Florsheim by Duckie Brown $270 neimanmarcus.com

Your dress shoes just copped an attitude.

3 Walk into any shoe department worth its suede and you’re bound to find blue soles, camo prints, and sneakerized brogues that simply did not exist a few years ago. Remember when shoes were just black or John Lobb $1,640 Thom Browne New York $950 Grenson $240 brown? Yeah, neither do we. johnlobb.com thombrowne.com grenson.co.uk

5 gq. com Hit the most stylish party in America. (Sorry, Miami and L.A.—it’s in Nashville.) No. 3 Don’t believe us? Show up at East Nashville’s The 5 Spot on Mondays around midnight. The guys dress like Buddy Holly, the girls dress like Bobbie Gentry, 29 the Black Keys mill about, and everyone sweats out the booze dancing to old- school southern soul.

N o. It’s okay if you don’t know how to pronounce the word “foulard.” 31 3 Actually, we’ll teach you right now: foo-lard. Say it with us. It’s the fashion-world term for these resurgent silk ties with colorful micro-patterns that make a narrow tie pop.

Prada $215 prada.com

No. 30 The polo just got a ska- inspired trim.

3 The Fred Perry polo seemed unimprovable. (Just ask tennis dudes and ska punks.) Then they designed this version with a mini- collar. Even if it ain’t broke, you can still make it better.

Fred Perry $80 fredperry.com

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away that 2 Justin It’s all about 3 Timberlake the accessories. hat. In a field suddenly Style goes in cycles. crammed with brands, these are This is a snapshot our favorites. of where we stand right now. 1 Stitch hats No-b.s. handmade Back From bucket hats. $65 the Dead 6 2 GarreTt Leight sunglasses 4 By the son of the guy behind Oliver Peoples. $340 5 Trucker Hats Cargo Pants 3 hamilton watches They say, “I’m a baller, but I’m not a dick.” $875

4 TIE BARS FROM Faded Jeans Double- THetiebar.COM Breasted They get the job Suits done; couldn’t be any cheaper. $15 7

dead for now 5 Alexander 8 Olch ties Cut from old-man fabrics at punk-rock widths. $140

6 Sid Mashburn pocket peaked Pocket Fedoras Squares squares Frayed edges for bonus style. $55

7 BillyKirk belts Take years to wear in and a lifetime to Too-Tight hipster wear out. $115 Jeans shades 8 Miansai dead forever bracelets Nautical vibe thanks to nylon cord and a brass anchor. $60

9 happy socks Bright mercerized cotton that won’t Designer- Mock fade. $12 Logo Belts Turtlenecks 10 Ernest Alexander bag The new Filson or 9 Jack Spade. $195

11 Grenson shoes 10 Around since the Leather Car Square-Toe 1800s; still in style. 11 Coats Shoes $360

7 gq. com Where to buy it? Go to gq.com/go/fashiondirectories eric ray davidson n o s . The 25 Best Men’s Stores in America 34–58 Some are great because they have impossibly hard-to-find brands or salesmen who know way too much about suits. And some are just beautiful rooms you never want to leave. These are GQ’s picks for the best of the very best.

no. 34 no. 37 no. 41 no. 45 Ralph Lauren’s Ranch at where sneaker geeks rule the next-level gift shop A Salvation Army for the Beach Bodega South Willard Millionaires RRL boston, ma los angeles, ca Ina east hampton, ny Hidden in the back of a Buying a birthday present for manhattan, ny Only Ralph could lasso a store bodega, this world-famous the Most Interesting Man in With a Nolita spot for men this perfect—a weather- streetwear spot is as hard the World? Start here. It’s and a new unisex Chelsea beaten barn set off a road… to find as the sneakers as easy to snag a desk location, this is the place to that happens to be the sold inside. The only place sculpture as a sweater at this snatch up castoffs from the toniest shopping street in the where you can buy an West 3rd Street standby. Barneys brigade. The clothes Hamptons. Inside, new plaid ice-cold Yoo-hoo and a are “previously owned,” but shirts wrestle with old boots clean pair of Jordans. you know how shopaholics and other collectible odes no. 42 are: Bought it, wore it once, to a bygone America. The President’s Tailor flipped it. no. 38 Martin Greenfield The Best Place to Buy Jeans. Clothiers no. 35 Period. brooklyn, ny no. 46 get some cowhide for your iPAD Baldwin America’s greatest living Find Surf Trunks...And Your RTH Shop kansas city, mo tailor may not have an actual Future Wife los angeles, ca The world’s best barbecue, store, but he’s been churning Saturdays NYC René Holguin has channeled jazz, and…jeans? You pretty out handmade suits by manhattan, ny his family’s boot-making much can’t eff it up at appointment for sixty-five They sell Sex Wax, but you legacy into a new shop on Baldwin: They make only a years. Yes, this is the guy who don’t have to hang ten to La Cienega with a radical handful of gimmick-free cuts makes the suits for Band of hang here. The real action homemade vibe. And it’s from primo selvage (and Outsiders and Rag & Bone at this coffee-and-surf shop become the spot in SoCal for can customize from there). (plus Boardwalk Empire and is in the courtyard, where far-out leather goods: bags, Bill Clinton). hot downtowny people wallets, and Native American drink cortados and peck at necklaces, mostly made no. 39 their MacBooks. in the workshop out back. the best outlet mall in america no. 43 Cabazon Outlets High Fashion for the cabazon, ca Bottle-Service Set no. 47 no. 36 Dolce in the desert? Cucinelli The Webster Miami A slice of Milan in New Orleans The Edgiest Spot West of Tokyo in Cabazon? A mohair suit miami, fl George Bass Nepenthes New York might seem out of place Milan Vukmirovic’s swanky new orleans, la manhattan, ny surrounded by a casino and an South Beach shop sells This gentlemen’s shop has This Garment District automated sprinkler system, $1,300 Lanvin swim shorts been here a quarter century, outpost, by the same guys but these outlets near Palm and a Balmain duffel for but don’t call it a nostalgia behind hipster workwear Springs are the most stocked $3,800. The good news: In trip. Bass’s Nawlins-via-Italy label Engineered Garments, in the country. early May, Target releases aesthetic (suits by Isaia, is so edgy it hurts. The staff a Webster collab in which Kiton) has become the thing look ripped from the pages everything in the collection is in menswear right now. of Japanese fashion rags, no. 40 under fifty bucks. and the racks are full of stuff Finally, a Store Worthy that’s about 10 percent more of Austin no. 4 8 out-there than what you’re Stag no. 44 The Mall’s Stylin’est used to pulling off—but austin, tx The Wilderness Comes to Soho Department Store you’ll still be inspired to try. The best store in what’s REI Nordstrom becoming one of the manhattan, ny seattle, wa country’s freshest cities. We’ve noticed a lot more folks Little-known secret: Any Stag offers antiques, apparel, wearing Patagonia puffers given Nordstrom moves more and an apothecary; in in SoHo since REI opened a high fashion than all your fact, everything is for sale. tri-level beast this fall. An favorite boutiques combined. Dangerous after they loosen outdoors superstore a block The Seattle location is hard your purse strings with a from Prada? It works. to beat—proximity to the couple of Shiner Bocks. company’s HQ helps. But any style-head stuck at his local mall should make a beeline.

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No. 59 no. no. 49 53 A piece of ageless advice from Trendy Heads North Where Trends don’t exist Portland Dry Goods Co. Paul Stuart tom ford portland, me manhattan, ny Portland Dry Goods is the “My grandfather and father newest opening in a trio both shopped here, and I “Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. of interconnected (and utterly still always find something It’s just really flattering—it will take anomalous) menswear shops totally fresh. Bring anyone— pounds o≠ you.” in Maine. Without getting large, small, short, tall—and illustration by Zohar Lazar rained on, you can plunk they’ll find an amazingly cut down for a To Ki To jacket at suit right off the rack.”— Barbour, a custom Oxxford paul sevigny, dj and suit at David Wood, and a pair restaurateur No. On the beach, trade of McNairys at PDG. understated trunks for 60 something brash. no. 50 The South’s Big Three 3 Nobody does swim trunks like Orlebar The Most Curated Spot in Brown. Yet even they borrow from the late Brooklyn No. 54 British designer David Hicks, the inspiration Hickoree’s Floor Two Home of the for this dizzyingly radical print. brooklyn, ny Well-Heeled Outlaw The Hill-side guys are known billy reid for making ties and scarves. florence, al Orlebar Brown $240 mrporter.com Now they’ve created a No. 55 clubhouse in Williamsburg for Replace Those grown-up kids: Buy a vintagey Ridiculous Skinny Jeans backpack and fill it with Mast Imogene + Willie Brothers chocolate, a Leather nashville, tn Head football, Kapital jeans, and a tie-dye. No. 56 Where Suits Are a Religion no. 51 Sid Mashburn Steal Tom Ford’s Interior atlanta, ga Design Tom Ford los angeles, ca “Every time I think Tom Ford has better taste than anyone, no. 57 he proves me right. Go soak because grooming is style, too it in. Then copy what you can Blackbird at home. If you can afford to seattle, wa knock off his marble walls for Blackbird has a lot going a renovation, why not? for it. Great clothes. Cool Or just get the same glasses hood (Ballard). And the best they serve Perrier in.” grooming shop around. We —jim moore, gq creative asked founder Nicole Miller eBay These Books. director her most popular product: More than just “Ursa Major face wash,” she your trunks should be David Hicks–ian. said. “Wakes you right up.” The man was a no. 52 master of interiors. The Capital of American-Made Steal from him. Unionmade no. 58 san francisco, ca The Best e-Commerce on the Web This go-to stop for “made in Need Supply Co. the U.S.A.” was a favorite richmond, va before its expansion. Now This store in Virginia’s quiet there’s room for an Alden capital has a website that’s shop-in-shop, a smart edit a menswear blogger’s wet of coffee-table books, dream: Yuketen mocs and and an apothecary Garrett Leight shades. Shop with products by Aesop for new pants from home… and Baxter of California. while not wearing any pants.

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Say “Hey, y’all” to your inner southern 61 gentleman

3 Three rockin’ Dirty South designers with thriving stores—plus musicians like Justin Townes Earle (right)—are defining a new southern aesthetic. “We’re not so uniform down here,” says Big Boi of OutKast. “There’s a flamboyance to how we do things.” No. 62

A piece of ageless advice from ralph lauren

Billy R eid Billy “I believe one can id Mashburn Mashburn S id

Imogene + W illie Imogene live many lives through personal • No pattern is more • It’s too hot down here for • These days, it’s more rebellious style. Every day southern than gingham. superskinny jeans. These strike to dress up. So kick shit in boots too is an occasion to No designer does it better. the middle ground. finely made to be called shitkickers. reinvent yourself.” shirt $145 tie $95 shirt $225 jeans $275 BOOTS $425 billyreid.com sidmashburn.com imogeneandwillie.com illustration by Zohar Lazar

N0. 64 No. 63 The jacket of the A piece of ageless advice from year is a michael kors pullover. “People shouldn’t 3 Get an anorak and you’ll end notice what up reaching for you’re wearing it three times a before they week. Sure, you notice you. You can wear it to want people to the gym, but we suggest throwing register you one over an first. ‘Oh, what oxford, with a a nice jacket’ tie and chinos. should be an afterthought if you’re doing it right.” From left: A.P.C. $265 apc.fr Warriors of Radness $140 illustration by Zohar Lazar warriorsofradness.com Gant by Michael Bastian $325 gant.com

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1 Pendleton 4 Alden 7 Billykirk 10 Tony Lama Woolen Mills middleboroUGH, ma lancaster Co., pa el paso, tx pendleton, or Est. 1884 Est. 1999 Est. 1911 Est. 1909 Stalwart of respectable brogues Amish-made leather Because you don’t want Best known for its vibrant and loafers; rare company shoulder bags, wallets, cowboy boots that blankets, but no slouches in the with legit claim to having never and key fobs. were stitched anywhere way of plaid shirts, either. gone out of style. but the Wild West. 8 Gitman Bros. 2 Filson 5 Quoddy pilot mountain, nc 11 Levi’s seattle, wa lewiston, me Est. 1978 los angeles, ca Est. 1897 Est. 1909 Some of the most solid Est. 1873 These outdoorsy goods Its handmade moccasins are (and, uh, patterned) ties If you’re an authenticity junkie, are a staple of urban so popular that they’re often around, made in a county you’re after Levi’s Cali-born, woodsmen nationwide. on back order. known for its quarries. archive-based Made & Crafted line.

3 Red Wing 6 L.L.Bean 9 Hamilton red wing, mn brunswick, me houston, tx Est. 1905 Est. 1912 Est. 1883 Iconic producers of resurgent, The iconic mail-order The dress shirts are from Rust Belt–ready work boots. outfitter’s duck boots the Lone Star State, but are ubiquitous, and with they’re classy enough for good reason. o∞ces on the coasts.

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