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  • How Challengers Umpire Darnell Appling Went From Zendaya’s Assistant to Internet Fave

    This story contains spoilers for Challengers. No one gets away with anything in Challengers, the glistening new tennis epic from Luca Guadagnino. As tension reaches fever pitch in the titular match between former best friends Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) and Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor), the latter unleashes his frustrations by obliterating his racket into pieces on the court. This heavy turning point in the match is then brilliantly extinguished in a moment of levity. “Code violation: racket...

  • The Best Dyes for Salt-and-Pepper Hair

    Most of us have a certain impression of natural-color hair and beard dye: The risk of using these is that they can produce a block-color result, almost like you rubbed shoe polish on your dome. Suddenly, you’re the guy who had some sparse grays on Friday but chock-black hair on Monday. Your friends, coworkers, and even total strangers will know what you’re covering up. If you'd rather embrace the gray hairs, we're all for it. But there’s no shame in wanting to cover it up, either. And for the...

  • The Fall Guy Is What We Mean When We Say “Movies Are Back”

    This story is from Manual, GQ’s flagship newsletter offering useful advice on style, health, and more, four days a week. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When, in praising a movie like The Fall Guy, we say “movies are back,” we say it knowing that movies never went anywhere. In this world there are two fundamental truths: It’s so over and we’re so back. And these truths are true not on an alternating basis but simultaneously. At any given moment, it has never been more over and we have...

  • What Did Jude Law Buy at Muji?

    On a recent sunny afternoon in SoHo, actor Jude Law did what many of us do when we find ourselves wandering around Lower Manhattan’s premiere shopping district: he went to Muji. The downtown outpost of the hallowed Japanese consumer-goods retailer is an unlikely oasis in a chaotic corridor of commerce. When you walk in, you are immediately greeted by a cadre of electronic aroma diffusers, quietly dispersing their scented mists into the air. There are shelves full of simple homewares and racks...

  • All Your 'Challengers' Questions, Answered by 'Challengers' Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes

    This interview contains major spoilers for Challengers. Movies are back, baby! Luca Guadagnino’s sexy, sweaty tennis-threeway movie Challengers won last weekend in the zeitgeist as well as at the box office, dominating group chats, social media feeds, and even the GQ Slack. In this post-monolithic age of media consumption, it’s increasingly rare for any release—barring peak Marvel or juggernautish new studio albums by the likes of Beyoncé or Taylor Swift—to become that central to the...

  • Adrien Brody Says Wes Anderson Sends Him Voice Notes

    Hours before John Legend banged on a grand piano and sang “Happy Birthday” to a pen, something strange happened. On Wednesday night, Legend and countless other celebrities gathered at an estate overlooking Los Angeles to attend a party honoring Montblanc’s flagship product, the Meisterstück pen, which debuted precisely 100 years ago. I figured Adrien Brody, a frequent collaborator of Montblanc partner Wes Anderson, would have plenty to say about the director’s handwritten notes, presumably...

  • On the Road With Toto Wolff, Who Likes to Spend a 14-Hour Flight in Silence, Just Thinking

    Few people on earth travel as often as professional athletes (and the people who work with them). With On the Road, the GQ Sports Travel Questionnaire, they’re weighing in on everything from room service to flying comfortably to their favorite chain restaurants. In a quiet hotel suite in midtown Manhattan, Toto Wolff is gazing out at the expansive city skyline. “New York is my favorite place,” he says in his distinctive Austrian accent. In recent years, the 52-year-old team principal of the...

  • The Omega Speedmaster Buying Guide: How (and Where) to Get One in 2024

    In any discussion of the world’s most famous—and most coveted—watches, you won’t get far without mention of the Omega Speedmaster. Born in 1957, a full five years before the Rolex Daytona, the Speedmaster established the look of chronographs as we know them today. Oh, and, as you might have heard, it was also the first watch worn on the moon. From the Speedmaster’s supporting role in the Apollo missions (it was worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, but it’s also credited with...

  • Best Memorial Day Mattress Sales 2024

    Summer is not the sleepy season; it's the season of ice-cold Athletic Brews, crackling campfires, and as much vitamin D as you can manage. However, after all of this calendar-packed fun, there will come a time when you will get sleepy—very, very sleepy. When this happens, you don't want to be caught off guard by a creaky, old, uncomfortable mattress that doesn't help you restore and replenish it to hit it again the next day. Happily we're at the start of Mattress SZN—the best time all year to...

  • When Did “Press Tour Style” Become Such a Big Deal?

    Luca Guadagnino’s tennis tryst Challengers opened in theaters to $15 million this weekend, earning it the top spot at the domestic box office and the damp-browed adoration of style-minded critics and horny TikTok fans alike. But if the decision to hold the film’s planned release last fall due to the SAG strike is any indication, some of its box-office success is likely thanks to the tireless promotional efforts of its stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist, who spent the last month flying...

  • I Saw the TV Glow Is an Instant Cult Classic. Jane Schoenbrun Tells Us Where It Came From

    Jane Schoenbrun was born to make cult classics. After generating buzz with their 2021 Sundance breakout We’re All Going to the World’s Fair– an eerie microbudget gem inspired by shadowy Internet enclaves– the writer/director follows it up this week with I Saw The TV Glow, another mystifying, atmospheric coming-of-age story made to resonate with a very specific audience. “The first thing that I said to the crew was, ‘I want to make a movie that plays at the IFC Center at midnight for the next 20...

  • Four Easy Breathwork Routines to Aid Focus, Soothe Anxiety, and Help You Sleep

    The magic of breathwork is in its simplicity: the use of conscious breathing techniques—modulating the intake through the nose or mouth, and varying the depth and pace—has been shown to promote relaxation and reduce stress, and even help with anxiety and depression. It’s easier than meditation (which can leave you fighting with your racing brain), and usually quick enough to fit into a daily routine. “You don't always have time to work out or go to a yoga class, but working with the breath is a...