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.

JEFFREY WRIGHT'S NEW WAVE

After nearly 40 years of compiling as impressive and delightful a filmography as exists in Hollywood, Jeffrey Wright delivered a career-best performance in the layered, satirical 'American Fiction'. Naturally, it's garnering the best reviews of his career. He'd rather be surfing.

THE HARDEST LINES

The world's most legendary freeskier is on a multiyear mission to become the first person to climb and ski down the 50 most storied routes in North America. But he's not that young anymore, and-inevitably-the mountains that remain just keep getting deadlier.

The Return of the Opulent '80s

The all-gold Piaget Polo, Hublot Classic Original, and Rolex GMT were kings during the '80s. Now they're coming back for their crown.

Musician Of The Year – Travis Maximus

This year, Travis Scott bounced back into the spotlight with the summer's biggest album and a mega-tour to match. And yet, he says, he's still striving for something even grander. Hits the road with one of the most dynamic entertainers of our age.

Jacob Elordi – The New King

Euphoria made him Gen Z's favorite heartthrob. Now, with a breakout role as Elvis in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, Jacob Elordi is transforming before our eyes into something more: a bona fide BY movie star.

Cringe Daddy

Ever since he burst onto the scene in 2019 with his hit sketch show, Tim Robinson has become the reigning king of offbeat comedy, a one-man meme machine whose face took over all our feeds.

Andre 3000 is Back (and He Brought His Flute)

It's been years since the rap legend released new music. Now, on his own creative terms, he's unveiling his first solo project-and talking candidly about where he's been, how he's changed, and why he made an album that nobody could have expected.

JOHN WILSON ON TOP

His quirky HBO showstrangely funny, oddly profound, and totally inventivemade him an unlikely star.

Death Sex, and money: Tom Ford Exit Interview

He sold his company and has set his sights on new goals. As he walks away from the fashion world, Tom Ford talks candidly about all of it: the empire he built, the grief he's endured, and what he's planning for his third and final act.

The NEAR DEATH AND Rebirth Fashion's RADICAL Truth-Teller

Last year, Tremaine Emory was one of the fashion world's most prolific new superstars, juggling a high-profile position at Supreme with his own brand, Denim Tears, when a serious vascular event almost killed him. Now, the iconoclastic designer known for channeling powerful histories of the Black experience is finally telling his own story-and reuniting with the medical team who saved his life.

THE MIRACLE OF DAMAR HAMLIN

In January, with the whole country watching, Damar Hamlin's heart stopped during a Monday Night Football game. When he woke up, he became a national hero, and then, this fall, he made an incredible return to the NFL. Now, in his first in-depth interview since his comeback, he talks about his remarkable journey back to football-and his effort to make the most of a terrifying incident.