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Home on The Range with Lucky Blue & nara aziza Smith
The 22-year-old viral TikTok sensation (her) and the 26-year-old supermodel (him) make a content feast out of their beautiful young family and idyllic back-to-basics life in Texas. So, why do millions of followers tune in?
DEMNA UNMASKED
He's the most influential designer of the past decade. He's also the most controversial. Now the creative director of Balenciaga is exploring a surprising source of inspiration: happiness. GQ's Samuel Hine witnesses the dawn of Demna's new era, in Paris, New York, and Shanghai. Photographs by Jason Nocito.
IN THE SOUTH FRANCE WITH GEORGE & BRAD
They've spent three decades living intertwined lives at the inconceivably glamorous height of Hollywood. Now, having crossed the threshold of 60, they're more comfortable than ever throwing bombs, dispensing hard-won wisdom, and, yes, arguing about who had the better mullet in the '80s.
The Watch World's New Indie King
Rexhep Rexhepi designs meticulously crafted watches that are just shy of perfection-and that is exactly what makes them so desirable. We sat down with the young legend in his Geneva workshop (just after the $2.3 million sale of one of his watches) to understand what makes him tick.
How New York's Social Life Went Members-Only
A new wave of private restaurants, workspaces, wellness centers, and nightclubs has taken New York City by storm. Emily Sundberg gets inside most of them-and helps us understand why so many young New Yorkers are gleefully shelling out membership dues.
COLMAN DOMING REACHED THE SUMMIT NOW WHAT?
After three-plus decades in Hollywood, Colman Domingo finally found his work validated with an Oscar nomination-and became the new king of red-carpet style. Here, he gives us an exclusive first look at Loro Piana's luxurious new camping collection, and talks about the career opportunities he's been preparing to seize all his life.
WHY IS EVERYONE ON STEROIDS NOW?
Suddenly, steroids and a slew of other performance enhancers are moving out of the shadows and into the fitness routines of a new category of enthusiastic user. Across the internet and in gyms, how did body-modifying drug use become so ubiquitous, so effective, so...normal? And can it really be a good thing?
NEW YORKS GREAT BRICK-AND-MORTAR SHOPPING REVIVAL
The clothes are glorious. The vibes are immaculate. And the options are endless. We visited five of the city's buzziest shops for a look at the summer's best new threads worn by their stylish staffs, and to find out what's driving the return of NYC street retail.
THE OUTLAW TALES OF PESU PLUMA
He grew up listening to Ice Cube and Travis Scott, unless he was singing along to the corridos that immortalized larger-than-life Mexican legends. Now, the mullet-rocking superstar is fast becoming as famous as his rap idols-and as compelling as the folk heroes he used to sing about.
LET THE LUXURY GAMES BEGIN
This summer, as athletes and fans descend on the Paris Olympics, LVMH is spending a fortune making sure its brands are enmeshed in the Games. It's the grandest convergence of sports and luxury ever-but what can it tell us about the Arnault family's broader ambitions
KEVIN COSTNER BETS IT ALL AGAIN
For years, Kevin Costner had an obsession he couldn't shake: A four-part film epic called Horizon that has so far cost him $38 million of his own money. Now, he talks in-depth for the first time about why he left Yellowstone and why he's placing one of the most grandiose bets in Hollywood history on himself.
MEET THE WILDEST CHARCTER IN THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSIC SCENE
Right now, to be the most important new voice in Afrobeats means you might just be the most important new voice in global music, period. That title currently belongs to Asake, a Nigerian singer with bonkers style and a penchant for making speaker-melting hits.
MARNI'S FRANCESCO RISSO WILL NEVER GROWUP
The eccentric Italian designer is proving that the very serious business of fashion doesn't have to be very serious at all.
WELCOME TO LAUREN HALSEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD
The red-hot 36-year-old artist has achieved global success with a very local approach: applying imaginative, laserlike focus to a few square blocks of her hometown. In doing so, she renders and reflects what it's actually like to live and work in-and never, ever leave-South Central Los Angeles.
DARK KINGDOM
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-best friends and Nine Inch Nails bandmates-found unlikely creative fulfillment (and a couple of Oscars) by reassessing what they had to offer as musicians. Now they're thinking even bigger, and imagining an artistic empire of their own making.
INSIDE BANNY MCBRIDE'S LOWCOUNTRY COMEDY COMMUNE
After taking big screens and HBO by storm with his macho-lampooning humor, comedy hero Danny McBride uprooted his life in Hollywood to build his dream production studio in Charleston, South Carolina-away from the stifling industry, and alongside his closest friends and collaborators. That's where he's been unlocking a blistering new creative gear-and plotting his best work yet.
QUEEN of the YOUTH
Hunter Schafer has built a career by saying yes: to activism, to modeling, and then to acting, where Euphoria made her a star. Now, with a budding movie career and big plans in just about every field you can imagine, the Gen Z icon is figuring out exactly what sort of creative life she'd like to lead.
LEWIS HAMILTON IS CHANGING LANES
The seven-time F1 champ says he still has a world title in him-maybe this year, his final one at Mercedes; maybe next year when he joins Ferrari, a shocking move he tells us he manifested. But it's his passionate work outside of racing-in fashion, in film, in music-that's setting him up to keep making moves after the checkered flag drops on his racing career.
The New Gold Standard in Tasteful Watches
Piaget's Polo 79 once again marks the end of the steel sports watch's reign-and the start of something much more fun.
Captain Mbappé
We met him as a teenage prodigy. Now, with his PSG teammates Messi and Neymar gone, and a new job as French national team captain, Kylian Mbappé is reckoning with the responsibilities and privileges that come with being the man.
The full Ricky
Twenty-five years after becoming one of the most staggeringly famous men on the planet, a wiser, more assured Ricky Martin is taking another run at being a star. While also being himself, this time.
Can the Saudis Buy Soccerr?
Saudi Arabia is spending an unfathomable fortune to lure the biggest stars of global football (Ronaldo! Benzema! Neymar!) to its upstart league ventured to the kingdom to discover what the gambit represents. Is this the future of the world's most popular sport? The vanguard of sportswashing? Or something way bigger?
How Cillian Murphy Cracked the Code
For nearly 30 years, Cillian Murphy has built an unimpeachable body of work as one of our most versatile actors-while somehow also staying cleverly out of sight. Now, as an Oscar frontrunner, the Oppenheimer star pulls back the curtain (just a bit).
Finally, Women Are Breaking Up One of Luxury's Stuffiest Boys' Clubs
Dimepiece founder Brynn Wallner hosts a roundtable of leaders in the watch world to unpack the ascendant power of the female collector.
How Our Legacy Became the Biggest Little Fashion Brand in the World
The Swedish brand Our Legacy has been cultishly treasured by fans around the world for years. Now, it's finding a level of success that even its founders didn't see coming. GQ went to Stockholm to see up close how a beloved indie label is suddenly preparing for fashion's main stage.
How to Shop FASHION's VINTAGE BOOM
It's the inspo behind your favorite designer's latest runway show and the fuel for every TikTok-born \"-core\" on your feedwhich explains why everyone's suddenly hunting for vintage clothing. Here's our guide to digging through the sprawling world of secondhand style like a pro and finding some new-to-you gems of your own.
How to Buy a Pro Sports Team
Thinking about joining the likes of Ryan Reynolds, David Beckham, and (probably) Jeff Bezos in the mad scramble to land your own club? It's suddenly the hottest pastime of the global super rich. Here's how the game is played.
Anna's Adventures in Wonderland
In recent years, 28-year-old painter Anna Weyant has found herself at the center of the art world circus thanks to soaring demand for her paintings, a surge in her auction prices, and a relationship with her gallerist, Larry Gagosian. When you cut through all the noise and hype, who is Weyant, and what's at the heart of her work?
Barry Keoghan's Wild Ride
He's one of our most exciting actors-a combustible shape-shifter onscreen, a moon-howling dynamo off it. And he spent the last couple years achieving his Hollywood aspirations at an absurd clip. Now, Barry Keoghan is confronting a rather novel dilemma: deciding which dreams to manifest next.
ON THE CUSP OF EKKSTACY
A chaotic weekend on the road with the musician known as Ekkstacy, a 21-year-old Canadian who is tying together two of Gen Z's most pervasive musical threads-emo punk and SoundCloud rap-in a whole new way.