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Why Willy Chavarria’s Latest Fashion Show Invoked ICE: ‘We’re in a Time of Erasure’
The charged message of Chavarria’s presentation reverberated well beyond Paris Fashion Week, evoking a glib reply from Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. “This show in particular is really about claiming identity,” the American designer told GQ.
By Eileen Cartter
Wellness
The Supreme Court Case That Could End Porn as We Know It
An anti-porn backlash is in full swing. The Supreme Court might supercharge it.
By Sascha Cohen
GQ Sports
Baseball’s Best Home Run Hitter Is a Guy Named Big Dumper
“Whenever someone wants me to sign a bobblehead, they want me to do it on the butt,” says Cal Raleigh, the breakout Seattle Mariners star with a world-class nickname and a knack for crushing monster dingers.
By Matthew Roberson
Culture
‘The Valley’ Is the First Great TV Show About the ‘Divorced Guy’
To understand divorce, you can read many excellent recent books on the topic. To understand the Divorced Guy, you need to watch a reality TV show on Bravo.
By TM Brown
Culture
Marc Maron Talks About His New HBO Special, Ending WTF, and Busting Open the ‘Worry Folder’
“We see it as a finished thing,” Maron says of his podcast, which concludes its era-defining run this fall.
By Paula Mejía
Style
My Journey to Buy a Back-Alley Labubu
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the doll.
By Eileen Cartter
Culture
Inside Tuxedo Society, the Old-Money Fantasy Camp Where Would-Be-Aristocrats Pay to Cosplay
“All of our members are wealthy," one founder says of the club, which offers Instagram-ready curated trips to commoners who dream of living like European royals. “But what we're able to create in terms of ‘the vibe,’ no one has experienced before.”
By Alessandra Schade
Culture
We're All Aboard the Morgan Spector Train
The Gilded Age actor is back as robber baron George Russell (affectionately known as “Railroad Daddy” to his fans). Ahead of the HBO period drama’s thrilling third season, we hung out with Spector on the Upper East Side to talk subversive masculinity, being a wife guy, and suddenly becoming famous in his 40s.
By Raymond AngPhotography by Richie Shazam
Culture
Inside the Launch of Liquid Glass, Apple’s Biggest iOS Update in Over a Decade
Behind the scenes at WWDC with Alan Dye and Craig Federighi, the minds behind the new look and feel of iOS 26.
By Kieran Press-Reynolds Photography by Adam Powell
Wellness
In Order to Defeat a Toddler, You Must Think Like a Toddler
Three-year-olds are stubborn, irrational, and endlessly frustrating. But in a world obsessed with optimization and order, writes Vince Mancini, they’re also a means of escape from a quotidian reality.
By Vince Mancini
Culture
Why Do Dads Watch TV Standing Up?
Everyone knows that fathers love to watch TV standing up. Comedian Josh Gondelman investigates this cultural mystery, and develops a complete taxonomy of standing dads.
By Josh Gondelman
Style
Jacques Marie Mage: The Sunglasses That Are Changing the Face of Pop Culture
How eccentric French designer Jérôme Mage transformed his LA brand, Jacques Marie Mage, into the most coveted and cultish name in sunglasses—and created the go-to shades for the celebrity class.
By Samuel HinePhotography by Michael Schmelling
Culture
Do Not Try to Get Your Kid Into the Pop Culture You Like
GQ culture director Alex Pappademas makes the case to shut up, “unless you’re specifically asked for recommendations, which chances are, you will not be.”
By Alex Pappademas
Culture
Is This a New Golden Age of Dad Rock?
If you’re a man in your 40s and your main circle isn’t talking about Cameron Winter, “Elderberry Wine,” and Silver Jews Summer, it’s time to find a new circle.
By Nick Catucci
Culture
Is It Better to Get Famous in Your 50s?
From Walton Goggins to Colman Domingo to Pedro Pascal, we’re in a golden age of actors getting wildly famous after decades of paying their dues—and they might be having the most fun of all.
By Esther Zuckerman
Style
How Work Style Has Changed in the Return-to-Office Era
With more and more companies mandating in-person attendance, many employees are discovering the challenge of dressing for the office in a post-pandemic world.
By Max Berlinger
Culture
The Ethical Assassin: One Man's Quest for the Perfect Way to Kill a Fish
What if there were a perfect way to kill a fish? To make it suffer less, taste better, and extend its shelf life so significantly that more people might enjoy more kinds of fish all over the world? Andrew Tsui knows just such a way.
By Brett MartinPhotography by Akasha Rabut
Culture
Clipse Talk Love, Hate, and What Rap’s Been Missing
After more than fifteen years apart, the brothers Thornton, better known as Malice and Pusha T, are back together, with a new Pharrell Williams-produced album that ranks with their most potent product ever—and they’re ready to go on record about Kanye, Drake, and the state of the game.
By Frazier TharpePhotography by Eric Johnson
Wellness
Why Nothing Hits Like a Late-Night Bowl of Cereal
GQ explores the omnipresent masculine urge to eat cereal at night—and what it means for your health.
By Ian Burke
Culture
Survivor Turns 25: Here’s Why I’ve Been Watching for My Whole Life
Pretty much everything about the world and my life has changed since the reality show premiered in 2000, with the exception of one eternal truth: Survivor still goes so hard.
By Matthew Roberson