British GQ October 2022

SIMRAN HANS Writer Hans, a culture writer based in London, interviewed Tems for this October issue. “It was really cool to meet an artist in a moment of change,” Hans says of the Lagosborn singer enjoying a red-hot ascent. “I spoke to Tems twice for the piece, and in the two weeks between our conversations, suddenly she was everywhere. She had played two sold-out shows, soundtracked the Black Panther trailer, and appeared on the new Beyoncé album. It was fascinating to witness all of that playing out in real time.” Office Grails OLIVIA PYM Associate editor, British GQ “Nanushka leotard giving Lara Croft on the 9-to-5.” NATALIE PETIT-FRERE Fashion assistant, US GQ “Nina once sang, ‘Alabama’s gotten me so upset.’ I now relate.” EILEEN CARTTER Style writer, US GQ “I borrowed my roommate’s vintage Dingo harness boots enough times…

WHEN I WAS 16, I spent a year and a half stacking fruit and vegetables at a local supermarket. I’d spend an hour or so in the oversized chill fridge, chopping and wrapping watermelons, cantaloupes, and cauliflowers. (I would sneak a wedge or two of watermelon as a sort of post-prep snack.) Then I’d wheel a trolley around the shop floor, placing the fresh produce with total care, usually with In Rainbows blaring through tinny, circa-2007 wired iPod headphones. I’d arrange broccoli like a vast forest on the shelves – clean and symmetrical. It was a goddamn beautiful sight, row after row of miniature trees forming a canopy. Every time, a few minutes after I was finished, a shopper would inevitably dismantle the forest in search of the most pristine and…

STRIPES FOR STARS In our post-WFH age, wearing a suit means you have somewhere to be – it means purpose, attitude, and celebration. And perhaps no suit better exemplifies the moment than this wide-leg, strong-shoulder Saint Laurent ensemble, pinstriped with glittering threads that’ll shine bright no matter where you’re headed. Jacket, £2,220, trousers, £1,100, and boots, £975, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vacc are llo. BORN TO SHRED On any given day, you can find Bronx-born Keith Hardy living up to his nickname on some downtown NYC street or other. Shredmaster Keith, as he’s known, found his first skateboard in a rubbish bin when he was 11, and in the years since, he’s honed a gritty and imaginative style of urban skating – and an adventurous personal style to match. “You have to look…

WINTER WRAPPER Just when you thought you had your outerwear down, Luke and Lucie Meier, the mastermind duo behind Jil Sander, drop a drool-worthy winter throw-on (£1,895). WAIST CINCHER Is it us, or is there something of the handcuff in this new belt from Salvatore Ferragamo? Either way, the Italian luxury house is a safe word, style wise (£360). KILLER DB Tiger of Sweden’s louche and loose wool DB nails the relaxed tailoring mood sweeping the menswear universe (£848). DAYTIME PYJAMAS Outdoorsy PJs are trending and we’re waking up to it. This Daniel w. Fletcher silk button-up looks fresh at all hours (£320). COOL MULES Wildly freeing, ankle-airing and easy to slip into, GH Bass’s mule loafers are as chic as they are cushy (£170). DOPAMINE DOSE Double down on Barbie-core with this punchy pink suit from Alexandre Mattiussi’s AMI (price…

BARRY KEOGHAN HAS a Czech Shepherd dog named Koda. He’s obedient and beautiful, and so big that when he runs up to me and jumps up on his hind legs, his paws touch my chest. “You’re not scared of dogs, are you?” Keoghan says, by way of greeting. The dog has spent much of his young life in obedience school. “In any unfortunate event, he knows how to bite,” Keoghan says. Keoghan (his surname, which often incites confusion, is pronounced how it’s spelled: ke-yow-gen) loves animals. As a teenager, he’d sit down in front of the television at his grandmother’s house and watch nature documentaries, fascinated, he says, by “how animals can say so much without saying anything.” He claims to have learned everything he knows about acting from studying them;…

WATCHMAKERS LOVE A good arms race. The first and perhaps most enduring one was to equip a timepiece with the maximum number of functions, or complications – a distinction currently held by Vacheron Constantin’s breakthrough Reference 57260, released in 2015, which has 57 of them. Then, of course, there’s the matter of depth. Among diving watches, Omega trumps all with its 6,000m Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep, as covered in this column earlier this year. Now attention has shifted to thinness. The title of world’s thinnest mechanical watch has been held by Piaget’s Altiplano Ultimate Concept. The entire watch is just 2 mm thick, achieved with a mixture of new techniques and micron-level-precision component manufacturing, most notably doing away with a baseplate and building the movement straight on the caseback. But tiny…