Professional Basketball Player Dwyane Wade Photographed with Model Karlie Kloss by Annie Leibovitz for the June Issue of Vogue
Style Advice: Tom Ford
“Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.” – Tom Ford
The perfect $1,000 Italian suit comes from…Atlanta?
Sid Mashburn spent the past half-decade trying to make a suit for those who can’t spend four grand—and he’s finally cracked the code. The result has all the hallmarks of the primo stuff from the 1960s: natural shoulders, handsewing, and a fit that looks at home from Mississippi to Milan.
Tips from a Hollywood Stylist
- Never wear pleated chinos.
- Tortoise frames rather than black for sunglasses.
- When dressing down, you can’t go wrong with raw, unwashed denim.
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The GQ Guide to Suits
According to the copy written for “THE NEW LOOK OF INTIMIDATION,” the “broad chest graphic echoes the fierce stance of the Thunderbird totem,” (the supernatural being, not the car) the “modified color scheme mirrors Pacific Northwest hues” (I’m from Seattle and let me tell you, neon green is everywhere), and the “hydrophobic material literally repels water so we can perform in the Seattle rain” (before now, when it rained, the team would slip and fall pathetically while their non-hydrophobic unis melted).
—VICE’s Harry Cheadle wants to talk about the new Seahawks uniforms.
Squad Up: The Most Stylish Crews of All Time
Sports teams. Bands. Artistic collectives. Pals. Hell, even fictional gangsters. There’s nothing cooler than a group of guys stalking the streets with swagger. With that in mind, we looked at some of the coolest crews and ranked the best of the best.
Designing Mad Men: The Stories Behind Joan’s Dresses and Don’s Suits
Long before she was the costume designer for AMC’s Mad Men, Janie Bryant was known at her Tennessee high school as Miss Vogue, and it seemed she was destined for a life in the world of high fashion. After studying fashion design at the American College of the Applied Arts, she moved to Paris to learn the art of couture, and then to New York’s Seventh Avenue. But the screen always beckoned, and after meeting a costume designer at a party, she transitioned into a career designing for television rather than the runway. In 2005, she won an Emmy for the HBO Western series Deadwood. As the costume designer for all five seasons of Mad Men, she has both captured a particular period — men in grey flannel suits, women in lacy dresses, everyone, for the last time, in hats — and the incremental sartorial revolution that brought the starchy ’50s into the Modish ’60s. Her designs have captivated everyone from Michael Kors, whose Fall ‘08 collection bore her influence, to Banana Republic, which recently launched its Mad Men line. Here, Bryant shares selections from her sketchbook, including an early rendering of Joan’s eye-catching dress from the Season Five premiere, and explains how a costume travels from a napkin doodle to the screen.
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Investors expected little from Lululemon when it began selling shares at $2 a pop in 2007. The maker of Wunder Under pants and other yoga women’s wear hardly seemed like a player in the competitive world of retail sportswear. Five years later, Lululemon’s stock has hit $76, and the company is valued at $10 billion — more than the clothing behemoth J.C. Penney. Last week, Lululemon posted a quarterly profit of $74 million, reported sales growth for the twelfth straight quarter, and, fittingly, opened a Boston store with a yoga class and dance party for 500 neon-clad guests. How did Lululemon become a $10 billion yoga empire?
The GQ Spring 2012 Trend Report
We are absolutely crazy about striped knit ties for this Spring. Read up on GQ’s entire trend report to stay up-to-speed on what to wear and how to wear it.
