Spring 2014 Trend Report

Spring biggest trends come with a heavy mix of global influences. Here are the 30 worldly wardrobe upgrades you need to know.

GQ’s Spring Preview 2014
Do the Continental

The new direction is less US prep and more European-refined—and very global in spirit.

Business Unusual:
Spring’s Best New Suits

Go for suits in fresh, not-so-cubicle-correct colors that still fall squarely within the dress code.

Your Wardrobe MVP

The well-fitting sports jacket. Our guide to buying and wearing the season’s best styles. PLUS: Some of Our Favorite Options

Always Finish Strong

The new dirty dozen: 12 tweaks that will make your wardrobe spring into, well, spring.

How to Brave Not-So-Cold

Until sweltering, the transitional months are an opportunity to pile on style moves.

The New Seersucker Suit

Summer is no longer seersucker or bust.

How to Wear a Linen Suit

Embrace the slightly less locked-in feel of a modern linen suit. Roll with the artfully disheveled look.

Lighten Up

A summer suit primer

How to Stay Dry in Style

Everything you need to survive the rainy days ahead.

GQ Guide to Suits

Our exhaustive guide to that wardrobe cornerstone, the suit: the styles you need, the fit you want, and how to put it all together

Suit Your Shape

Whether you’re tall or short, stocky or lanky, there are style secrets to making a suit look right.

Look Like $3000 for $300

We took real New Yorkers—pros, with big jobs—and helped them look boss for $300 or so.

A Perfect Business Wardrobe

Dressing for the office shouldn’t add stress to your workday. You just need to know the basics.

Think Outside the Cube

Do more than just a good job to get noticed. Bring some life to your business wardrobe.

The New Business Casual

Casual doesn’t mean you have to look like a drone. Here’s how to navigate the workday with style, authority, and yes, even comfort.

Wearing Double-Breasted

Witness the suave-tastic return of the DB – slimmer, shorter, and hipper, with twice the swagger.

Artistic Plaid Suits

The plaid suits on these pages aren’t fusty old standbys like windowpane or Prince of Wales. They’re fresher, smarter, newer.

Always Bet on Brown

A suit in tobacco, copper, or coffee has gone from kinda stuffy to totally cutting-edge

Bring On the Night

Every weeknight, bars fill up with guys who look like they just zombie-walked out of a cubicle. Don’t be one of them.

GQ Guide to Ties

Pick it, pair it, knot it, rock it: Round out neckwear knowledge with our essential guide.

10 Ways to Rock a Bow Tie

The men behind Japanese store United Arrows show you how to incorporate once-nerdy neckwear into everyday looks.

Use Your Head

Your guide to buying a hat.

How to Buy a Watch

You’re going to need help buying the perfect timepiece.

GQ Guide to Shoes

How to pick the pairs you need, and keep them looking shiny and new.

How to Buy A Tux

That’s right, buy. Because unless you’re going to the prom, renting should no longer be an option.

Summer Wedding Guide

Whether a prepster fest on a beach or a hipster bash in a loft.

How to be the second-most-talked-about guy on the big day.

Tux Jacket w/o the Tuxedo

Irreverent designer tux jackets you can wear with jeans. PLUS: Best Tux Jackets Under $400

Shop Like a GQ Editor

Our 45 favorite fall trends - from shearling coats to chunky turtle necks to chelsea boots, and more.

Most Colorful Fall Ever

Break out from the black-and-gray doldrums.

15 Freshest Style Moves

Smart trends - from turtlenecks with a denim jacket to sweatpants.

Sensing a Pattern

Here’s how to tell your glen plaid from your gun check and put it all together like a boss—or an earl.

Go On with Your Plaid Self

Reach for a plaid dress shirt and (always) pair it with a dark tie. It’s the fall’s can’t-miss combo.

Reboot Your Suit

An easy tweed, a slim three-piece, and a modern chalk stripe.

How to Wear a Flannel Suit

For the bitterest stretch of winter, a suit that can handle the weather.

Heavyweight Champs

A winter suit primer.

Best Coats of the Season

We did all the legwork for you and found a winner in every style.

Best Waxed Jackets

Consider it a shrewd investment that’ll improve with age—and never go out of style.

How to Buy a Topcoat

Too many men buy topcoats that fit like bathrobes. There is another way. PLUS: Best Topcoats under $300

Capitol Hill Edition

Blousy shirts and ill-fitting suits shouldn’t pass for fashion. We show six players in the making how to dress for higher office.

College Edition

We found six college students and decked them out in the looks they’ll need to break into the real world with total confidence

Weekend Edition

GQ takes seven real guys and helps them nail off-duty looks.

The Big Interview

GQ helped seven on-the-hunt guys refine their looks so they can nail the interview.

Back to Business

GQ ambushed seven businessmen on NYC’s streets and showed them how to improve their style within their budgets.

A GQ Style Intervention

GQ’s fashion editors take to the streets and grab six dudes who could use some style help.

Our eighth annual BNMDA: the four newest, brightest, sharpest talents in the land.

Our seventh annual BNMDA: the four newest, brightest, sharpest talents in the land.

Our first look at every limited edition GAP piece designed by Aviator Nation, Bespoken, Ernest Alexander, and Baldwin.

Giancarlo Giammetti

The former Valentino chairman on his must-haves, from diamond cufflinks to Cucinelli ties.

Armando Cabral

The laughing – never brooding – model, and designer of an eponymous footwear label.

Chris Hardwick

The multitalented nerd icon on what help him keep his TV shows and projects running smoothly.

Paul Liebrandt

From tea to T-shirts, the critically acclaimed chef shares 10 things he can’t live without.

J.Crew’s Jenna Lyons

President and creative director of J.Crew on Nike high tops, gold rings, and bespoke shirts.

Scott Sternberg

The Band of Outsiders designer on his favorite sneakers, his drug(s) of choice, and the best cookies.

David Gandy

The model, writer, and racecar driver shares secrets that make him one of Britain’s most stylish.

Billykirk

The brothers behind the go-to leather goods company.

John McDonald

The Soho restaurateur on how he stays in shape and organized, and the best pinot noir around.

Wale

The rapper, designer, and former GQ Man of the Year.

Paul Qui

Top Chef winner and top dog of Austin’s burgeoning food scene.

En Noir’s Rob Garcia

The man behind everyone’s favorite leather pieces this year—from Kanye West to LeBron James.

Wylie Dufresne

The groundbreaking chef on his favorite wheels and kitchen knife, and the secret to a good night’s.

Jeremy Langmead

Mr Porter.com’s editor-in-chief on his glasses, brogues, and antique catalog of choice.

Michael Williams

The founder of A Continuous Lean on his favorite shoes, watches, and the best wine glass in the world.

Josh Peskowitz

The Bloomingdale’s men’s fashion director and street-style favorite.

Jean-Philippe Delhomme

The artist and writer on the best radio show for discovering music, vintage cameras, and more.

Donnie Madia

The man behind Chicago’s Blackbird and The Violet Hour tells us how he stays fresh.

Tommy Fazio

The president and fashion director of PROJECT talks about his favorite sport coat, jeans and more.

Hooman Majd

The writer behind 2012’s best new menswear blog shares the 10 things he can’t do without.

Masaya Kuroki

The Maison Kitsuné designer on the best shoes, his favorite painting, and his collection at Pitti W.

Aziz Ansari

The most stylish comic in the game on cocktails, caffeine, and what you wear to impress Obama.

Todd Selby

The photographer of stylish places dishes on his own irreplaceables.

Carson Daly

The Voice host shows the secrets to graduating from vee-jay to world’s coolest dad.

Ian Velardi

The purveyor of neo-American clothes—and GQ Best New Menswear Designer—on staples.

Johan Lindeberg

The BLK DNM founder—a GQ’s Best New Menswear Designers—shares his must-haves.

Aaron Levine

Club Monaco’s menswear honcho dishes his must-haves.

Instagram

From the manliest wall decor to a closer shave, the daily must-haves that make it past their filter.

Vineyard Vines

The New England prep purveyors give us the staples of their nautical existence that keep them afloat.

Lupe Fiasco

All-beef hot dogs, Hanes, and the eight other things rapper Lupe Fiasco can’t live without.

Suitsupply

Suitsupply’s creative force Nish de Gruiter lets us in on the things he relies on the most.

Marcus Samuelsson

From a cast-iron pan to Ethiopian honey wine, the stylish NYC chef breaks down his necessities.

Warby Parker

Two of the guys behind everyone’s favorite cheap-and-trendy glasses share their crucial haves.

Simon de Pury

The renowned Swiss art auctioneer curates his collection of everyday must-haves.

Alexander Gilkes

How does an art connoisseur (and occasional auctioneer) live? Here, his most important things.

Andrew Pollard

The president of the PROJECT trade show takes us through a life of juice bars, surfing, and globetrotting.

Terron Schaefer

The Saks exec and Sartorialist favorite shares his must-haves.

Alain Ducasse

When your house wine is your own private label and an iPhone app bears your name, what else?.

Todd Snyder

One of GQ’s Best New Menswear Designers on his favorite whiskey, 60-year-old denim, and more.

David Chang

The man behind the Momofuku restaurant empire on what he’d have for his final meal, and more.

Kris Van Assche

Artistic director for Dior Homme and his KRISVANASSCHE label.

Derek Blasberg

The etiquette master shares some style tips for the modern man.

James Harden

The NBA’s most eclectic dresser on the things he won’t do without.

Brad Goreski

With a new Bravo show, we caught up with Brad Goreski to learn what keeps his spirits high.

Gildas Loaec

The Parisian co-founder of Kitsune and former member of Daft Punk.

Andy Cohen

‘Watch What Happens Live’ host Andy Cohen, he of Housewife-wrangling fame.

David Hart

The man behind some of the finest ties shares things he loves.

Sam Talbot

The sustainable seafood chef and ‘Top Chef’ contestant on his go-to chili sauce, jeans, and more.

Modern Summer Style

Upgrade your wardrobe—suits, shorts, shades, shoes, and more.

Essential Summer Suits

These versions—constructed to feel as weightless as shirts—will keep you cool and collected.

How to Wear a Khaki Suit

Learn the tricks to master the season’s sand-hued alternative.

57 Rules of (Suit) Style

What to look for when buying suits, how to get them tailored, and what to wear with them.

The New Casual Friday

A suit isn’t always called for when the week winds down. Here are alternatives – and no golf shirts.

The Color Combo to Try Now

There’s an easy way to turn khaki into a dynamic component of your wardrobe: wear it with black.

Fresh Twists on Classics

Check out comfortable variations on seasonal classics.

Corduroy Pieces You Need

Besides providing warmth and comfort, the accessible basic offers infinite style possibilities.

Choosing A New Coat

You may think your winter wardrobe is all set, but if it doesn’t include these two coats, think again.

Thomas

A student and Details intern gets schooled in officewear.

Julien

A B-school grad learns casual doesn’t have to look sloppy.

Rush

A recent law-school grad goes professional.

Sean

A graphic designer works on visual effects.

Marc

A law student learns new rules.

Ted

A future lawyer raises the bar.

Sunday

An actor dresses for a new year.

Julian

A college student gets tutored in the classics.

Andrew

An actor tries to look the part.

Dan

An undergrad gets a lesson in composed comfort.

Alex

A studio manager cleans up his Goodwill look.

Kyle

A personal trainer loses the Jersey accent.

Orondava Mumford

The Creative Director of Alternative Apparel on investing in the basics.

Scott Morrison

The 3x1 Denim creator on how to wear, and take care of, jeans.

Paul Surridge

The Z Zegna Creative Director wants you to experiment with pastels.

Antonio Azzuolo

The former Design Director of Ralph Lauren Black and Purple on the importance of consistency.

Michael Maccari

The Perry Ellis Creative Director on what modern style means.

Ryu Hayama

The Fingers Crossed designer on how to layer, the best bomber jacket, and dressing for comfort.

Tyler Thoreson

… of Gilt on the perfect summer shoe and how to layer with abandon.

Nathan Bogle

On why expensive denim should be your first investment.

Dean Gomilsek-Cole

… of Turnbull & Asser on how to get a perfect-fit shirt (and what common mistake to avoid).

David Hart

The luxury neckwear designer on the knots a man should know how to tie, and more.

Lucio Castro

On why you should wear cobalt blue, and what trends should be happening on streets.

Christophe Lemaire

The Hermès Artistic Director on why bespoke doesn’t guarantee style, and his ultimate, free luxury item.

Uri Minkoff

Ben Minkoff’s Creative Director on how to pick the perfect bag, and honing your personal style.

Mackage

Designers Elisa Dahan and Eran Elfassy of upscale outerwear brand Mackage.

Bespoken

Liam and Sammy Fayed on the “scruffy tailored” look, and simple layering and refined sportswear.

Jeremy Hackett

Hackett London’s founder on beautiful shoes, and patterns that every man should have.

Oskar Metsavaht

Osklen’s Founder and Creative Director on relaxed style (it doesn’t mean ill-fitted clothing).

Ernest Sabine

Founder of Ernest Alexander on versatility and being the best dressed man in any room.

Carlos Campos

On tote bags, what he never leaves home without, and the combo that takes “serious cojones” to pull off.

Dwight Fenton

Bonobos’ VP of Design on new rules of tailoring, the impact of music on his designs, and more.

Shipley & Halmos

On when to ignore a salesperson’s advice, allowing classics to evolve, and saying no to cheap suits.

Patrik Ervell

On what’s the toughest color, how much scent to wear, and where you should never buy a watch.

Alexander Olch

The neckwear designer on packing for a trip, tie colors and patterns you should own, and more.

Maison Kitsuné

The Parisian fashion and record label on their day-to-day uni, and small touches to upgrade your look.

Orley

The young designers on dressing like dad, the merits of giving navy a break, and more.

Patrick Grant

Of Norton & Sons and E. Tautz. Pattern-on-pattern dressing, what to wear if not a suit, and more.

George Esquivel

Of Tumi. We chatted about his packing style, how to spot good leather, and making shoes last.

Richard James

After 21 years on Savile Row, dressing UK celebs and politicos, he has a few tricks up his sleeve.

Billy Reid

On building the perfect closet, how to wear gold, and inspiration in photos of the South.

Gabriel Ricioppo

We chatted with Need Supply Co.’s CD about shoes, the easiest shirt color to mix and match, and more.

Ollie Amhurst

Lot78’s Ollie Amhurst on good T-shirts, the proper fit of a leather jacket, and more.

Nick Wooster

On traveling comfortably, the belt every man needs, and why he’s covered in tattoos.

Elisabetta Canali

On how to accessorize a suit, the fabrics to wear to stand out, and the trick to proper jacket fit.

Nish de Gruiter

The mind behind Suitsupply (and mentee of Brunello Cucinelli) on suiting up.

Christopher Bailey

The Burberry CEO on structured denim, experimenting with scents, and bagging everything.

Public School

Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne on travel staples, time spent choosing a look, and socks.

Italo Zucchelli

The creative director for Calvin Klein Men talks about American style, dressing your age, and bags.

Aaron Levine

Club Monaco’s VP of men’s design on personal style, and how to mix high fashion with classics.

Mark McNairy

Footwear designer on improperly laced shoes, beauty magazines, and sale shopping.

Oliver Spencer

The WGSN Global Fashion Award nom on dressing eclectically, grooming service, and more.

Frank Muytjens

J. Crew’s head of menswear design reveals some of his basic style rules for men.

Rag &Bone

Marcus Wainwright and David Neville on color, jewelry, and an unexpected style investment.

Gordon Richardson

Topman design director on the holidays, how to develop personal style organically, and more.

Bold Patterns and Colors

Advice from Richard Chai, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, and Patrick Robinson.

Nicholas Kirkwood

On his favorite travel bag, how to get the right amount of stubble, and difficulties of matching socks.

Todd Snyder

On”man jewelry,”the importance of a good navy suit, and his utter ire for square-toed shoes.

Advice about Shoes

Advice from Rick Owns, Steven Alan, Thom Browne and more.

WANT Les Essentiels de la Vie

The Peart Bros.’ most important accessory, style investmest, and one rule to abide by.