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For decades, Camber's Barry Schwartz has devoted his life to making the highest-quality sweatshirts on the planet. Along the way he’s endured fire and flood, heavyweight competition and the hollowing out of the American textile industry. Now the fashion world has taken notice, and demand is skyrocketing.

From Christian Pulisic to Vinicius Junior, GQ checks in with the players set to take over the 2022 World Cup.

He’s spent decades pretending to not be himself. Now, at 47, one of the world’s greatest actors speaks with rare candor about navigating a career he never quite chose and building a life he sometimes can't fathom.

You already know Pierce Brosnan: legendary Irish actor—a Bond. Possibly the most charming man alive. Now meet his model-musician-filmmaker sons Dylan and Paris, two of the only people on earth capable of resisting his charm.

John C. Reilly became one of Hollywood’s best-loved actors by keeping a pretty tight lid on his private life. His model-musician son Leo is becoming one of the internet’s most adored characters by pursuing a decidedly different approach.

LeBron James, Serena Williams, Michael J. Fox, Tinker Hatfield, and more tell the untold stories behind the Swoosh’s most seminal kicks.

Dior Men artistic director Kim Jones has turned the revered French house into a platform for artists and designers from outside the high-fashion world, honing his new vision for luxury with names like Air Jordan, KAWS, and Stüssy. His latest goes even further, as he hands the keys of the Dior atelier over to an emergent design sensation named Eli Russell Linnetz.

GQ journeys deep inside the company’s Italian headquarters to discover how Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are trying to return the legendary team to glory.

After finding instant fame as a rom-com heartthrob, Jacob Elordi became a sensation for his portrayal of an enthralling, toxic antihero on Euphoria. Now he’s living in the shadow of the Hollywood sign, balancing his big-time silver screen ambitions with a few existential quandaries about the cost of success.

At its peak, J.Crew might have been the most important menswear retailer in America. Then it went bankrupt and tasked downtown New York designer Brendon Babenzien with bringing it back. In a world that’s gone crazy for streetwear and high fashion, can he make oxford shirts and khaki pants cool again?

We know him as a legendary leading man, a Hollywood power broker, maybe the greatest heartthrob of all time. But Brad Pitt isn’t attached to any of those old conceptions. And, as Ottessa Moshfegh discovers, his ambitions for the rest of his life are more mystical than we ever could have imagined.

To embrace your style in virtual realms, you might first have to completely change the way you think about fashion.

Whether you go for the pants, to sip a matcha, or just to soak up some rarefied ambience, these 100 stores from around the world demand a visit.

Savvy entrepreneurs are flocking to the metaverse to set up shop, building the next generation of imaginative businesses. Here are some of the wild things they’re pitching us, from virtual apartments to coffin NFTs to maybe even finding the love of your life.

It’s already the world’s most coveted NFT collection, but the Bored Ape Yacht Club is becoming something else: highly lucrative I.P. With buyers racing to make their apes the stars of movies and books and albums and shows, GQ goes inside the quest to cash in on a decentralized version of Disney.

Before Euphoria came calling, the face-tatted songwriter was a safe bet to become a great pop star. But a role on TV's hottest show, along with a new relationship with his co-star, has got Dominic Fike thinking that this whole superstar-actor thing might be even more fun.