From GQ

  • “If You Know, You Know”: No. 1 Pick Caleb Williams Breaks Down His Custom Chrome Hearts Draft Suit

    When it came time to decide what he’d wear to the NFL Draft, newly-minted Chicago Bear Caleb Williams had two goals. He wanted to “be unique, be one of a kind,” he told me a few days before being drafted first overall. This was no surprise: since he was a kid, Williams has prepared diligently—perhaps obsessively—to become a quarterback the likes of which football has never before seen. And in his two seasons at USC, he was particularly unafraid to show off the qualities (from his game-breaking...

  • Drake Maye Just Doesn’t Want to Look Like a “Goofball” on the NFL Draft Red Carpet

    The NFL Draft is about much more than finding out which rookie will be joining your favorite team. It is also about learning which soon-to-be NFL players can really get dressed up. Drake Maye, one of the top quarterbacks in this year’s class, is looking to keep things simple as he makes his first real foray into the big-league fashion space. While he’s much more comfortable slinging touchdown passes than he is at the tailor, Maye says he enjoyed the pre-draft ritual of getting fitted for the...

  • Lana Del Rey Finds Her Perfect American Watch

    In my mind’s eye, the lasting image of Lana Del Rey comes from her 2012 “National Anthem” music video: her and A$AP Rocky on the Cape, cosplaying as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and John F. Kennedy. Throughout her career, Del Rey has crafted an uncanny collage of Americana, using her music to scrutinize, caricaturize, and ultimately embrace what it means to be American. Her songs reference roadside burger shacks and Coney Island motels, and last summer she even got behind the counter of a Waffle...

  • The JJJJound x Reebok Club C 85 Is 2024's Cleanest Sneaker Collab Yet

    After teasing the JJJJound x Reebok Club C 85 collab last week, the Montreal-based label has now made things official. But rather than just dropping the one pair that we all bookmarked Instagram, it's been unwrapped in three colorways. A triumvirate! Club Cs are generally made of leather, but for JJJJound's latest versions, they're all decked out in lots and lots of suede. Revealed in a subtle tan, a light gray, and a pleasing off-white, the sneakers are squeaky clean. Perforations are dotted...

  • Barry Keoghan Dressed Like Fashion Zorro—and We're Here for It

    Barry Keoghan is a bit of a pleasant fashion enigma. He doesn't seem like the kinda guy who'd end up in some wild fits—which is exactly why it's all the more powerful when he swerves sartorially. And at an event in Milan earlier this week hosted by Omega, his ever-tightening embrace of the left-field showed resulted in another banger. It felt like Zorro, a 17th-century Tuscan prince, and a 3 a.m. club overlord rolled into one. At a watch event, it'd be remiss not to mention the timepiece first,...

  • Where to Watch the Met Gala 2024 Livestream

    The first Monday in May is rapidly approaching, and that means so is the 2024 Met Gala. This year, for the fourth year in a row, Vogue will host an exclusive livestream, where you can watch all of the action from the red carpet in real-time. This time around, the Vogue Met Gala livestream will be hosted by actor Gwendoline Christie, producer and actor La La Anthony, and model Ashley Graham. Multi-hyphenate Emma Chamberlain will return as Vogue’s special correspondent, to interview some of the...

  • I Went on Vacation to Work Out Even Harder

    This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. After circling for an hour, I landed in the most torrential rain the UAE had seen in 23 years. My ride from the airport should have been on a pontoon boat. Cars were abandoned and submerged in water, and crypto bros' Lamborghinis were drowning. From the back seat of the Sprinter, Dubai felt like a combination of Las...

  • 7 Best Cookware Sets of 2024, Tested and Reviewed

    As much as brands would like you to believe that you can get by in the kitchen with just a single “do-it-all” pan, the best cookware sets will quickly have you realizing that it takes more to whip up a good meal (for yourself or a party). When it comes to mealtime, a cookware set needs to be as useful as it is attractive—we eat with our eyes first, after all. That said, high-quality pots and pans aren’t just a luxury but a necessity, and if cared for properly, they can last a lifetime. The Best...

  • A New Photo Book Celebrates the Style and Athleticism of America's Black Cowboys

    Even though he grew up riding horses in Kansas City, photographer Ivan McClellan never identified with cowboy culture. That changed in the summer of 2015, when McClellan attended his first Black rodeo in Oklahoma, an experience he’s compared to stepping into his own Technicolor Oz. McClellan (who’s based in Portland, Oregon) spent the next few years traveling around the country, meeting the people who would later be featured in his new photo book Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, which Damiani...

  • You Need More Protein If You’re Working Hard in the Gym—Here’s How Much

    Heading to the gym to lift a few weights can be a gateway drug to a whole wellness routine. Before you know it, you’re doing pre-workout mobility drills. You’re foam rolling, or using one of those fancy massage guns that make it look like you’re about to drill a hole into your thigh. And what about those $15 protein shakes they’re selling in the front lobby? If you don’t drink one after you work out, does all that energy you spent picking things up and putting them down become a waste of time?...

  • Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist Tell Us Everything They Learned About Tennis for 'Challengers'

    If there’s one movie that everyone in your life will be talking about this spring—from the sports fans to the film bros, the fashion heads to the Broadway crowd—it’s Challengers. Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist, the movie tells the tale of two tennis players (Patrick Zweig, played by O’Connor, and Art Donaldson, played by Faist) as they rise from youth prodigies into respectively rocky adulthoods. At the center of it all is Tashi Duncan, played by Zendaya, who shares a romantic...

  • Are Those Viral New Balance Loafers Actually Good?

    When New Balance introduced its 1906L loafer in January—at Paris Fashion Week through a collaboration with Junya Watanabe—people were understandably skeptical. The striking combination of a traditional New Balance sneaker silhouette and the build of an honest-to-goodness penny loafer seemed like yet another effort of fashion trolling, an attempt to whip up a social media frenzy based on eye-popping contrasts and an overtly impractical design. A critic at The New York Times called it “a meme...