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Thirty-Two Years Ago, Mariah Carey and I Were in the Same Magazine. This Week, I Finally Got to Tell Her

Thirty-Two Years Ago, Mariah Carey and I Were in the Same Magazine. This Week, I Finally Got to Tell Her

Published by Sam Flores

“It’s kind of like a long sheath of black fabric,” she told me. (Indeed, it was.) “And I like these Louis Vuitton shoes,” she added, holding up the silver-and-black-monogram pointed pumps that sat next to her feet. “I don’t usually like a pointed toe.” I asked about her summer plans and what projects she has coming up. “I have a couple shows and things to do, but that’s even more toward Christmas,” she said. “I think I’m going to Italy, which will be a fun time. I love Italy. Capri is my favorite place.” Mariah Carey Photographer Hunter Abrams Fans have been anticipating the 25th anniversary of Carey’s film Glitter; she recently announced that the movie will get a deluxe reissue. I asked what she could tell me about it, and she said she’ll work with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for it once again. The movie has become something of a cult classic, but as any Carey fan knows, it wasn’t always this way. “I used to be like, ‘Ugh, Glitter. I can’t,’” she …

How to Do Milan Like a GQ Fashion Editor

How to Do Milan Like a GQ Fashion Editor

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free. Every time I drop by Bar Quadronno in Milan, I think: Thank God this place isn’t in New York or Paris. If a wormhole opened and dropped the convivial wood-paneled joint in practically any other city, it would be mobbed day and night by crowds of wannabe influencers fawning over its tidy panini and perfect aperitivi. But not in Milano. On a Friday afternoon in January, when I had 45 minutes to kill in between runway shows, I found Quadronno—as always—half empty and full of charm. Since 1964, the city’s so-claimed first late-night panini joint has served as a clubhouse for fashion designers like Miuccia Prada and Matthieu Blazy. (I’m telling you: This place is incredible.) Milan is full of Quadronnos, spots with different but equally powerful vibes that have become unpretentious fashion-adjacent watering holes. Some are old, some newer, but all have been protected from …

‘L’Abuso’: Real Italian magazine cover of Israeli settler sparks online storm – Truth or Fake

‘L’Abuso’: Real Italian magazine cover of Israeli settler sparks online storm – Truth or Fake

Published by Sam Flores

Prominent left-leaning Italian weekly L’Espresso is at the centre of a diplomatic storm online, after the Israeli ambassador to Italy slammed its choice of front cover as “manipulative”. The magazine titled its latest edition “L’Abuso” or “The Abuse”, illustrating the cover with a photo of an armed Israeli settler sneering, whilst pointing his smartphone at a visibly distressed Palestinian woman. Israeli envoy Jonathan Peled said the image of the grinning settler “distorts the complex reality with which Israel must coexist, promoting stereotypes and hatred.” Online, pro-Israel accounts are casting doubt over the photo’s authenticity, questioning if it is fake or AI-generated, with some saying it dehumanises Jews and reinforces anti-Semitic stereotypes, likening it to Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust. In response to the criticism, the photographer of the image, Pietro Masturzo, confirmed that it is indeed real, sharing a video filmed from the incident in Idhna, west of Hebron on October 12, 2025. He explained that it was captured on the first day of the olive harvest there, when an armed group of Israeli settlers …

GQ’s 57 Rules for Wedding Style and Etiquette

GQ’s 57 Rules for Wedding Style and Etiquette

Published by Jenni Sidey

11. Cap your number of groomsmen at five. This ain’t a census of your nearest and dearest. Fewer people means fewer logistics and a better experience for everyone involved. (If you want to involve more of your friends, give them a short poem to read.) 12. If there are more than 80 people at your wedding, you need a seating chart. Without one, you’re subjecting your guests to a high-school-cafeteria flashback. And believe it or not, it’s fun putting tables together and figuring out which of your unacquainted loved ones are most likely to hit it off. 13. Your goal should be to look like yourself, but 15 to 20 percent better. A few months in advance of your big day, start protein- and fibermaxxing to build a touch of lean muscle, lock into a regular workout routine, drink your water, and get adequate sleep. (And don’t worry about getting too swole to fit in your suit. It’ll take a lot more for that.) 14. Don’t get upset if people can’t make your bachelor party. …

An Über-Stylish LA Painter’s Favorite Cologne, Watch, and Leaf Blower

An Über-Stylish LA Painter’s Favorite Cologne, Watch, and Leaf Blower

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is Men of Taste, a GQ column about stuff, as recommended by the people in our world who go to great lengths to find the best things. “I’m a living contradiction,” contemporary artist Friedrich Kunath says, reflecting on the wild spectrum of items he holds dearest. When it comes to his stuff, the 51-year-old German-born painter resents the reality of having to own a single thing at all. He suggests that the only must-have possession he can recommend to his fellow man is the “inner freedom not to own anything.” And yet, he acknowledges the meticulously researched and highly personal nature of his own favorite things—and how integral they are to his practice. There are the Wilson Audio Sasha speakers he treasures and uses to fill his Los Angeles studio space with the sonic wonder of Italo disco and Peso Pluma. There’s his Aston Martin Lagonda, beloved by Kunath for the innovative heel-digging it took to produce. And of course there are the scents he uses as creative stimuli, bathing each of the handful …

4 Menswear Brands That Will Define Spring 2026

4 Menswear Brands That Will Define Spring 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

It’s All Gucci, Baby Nearly a year into his run as artistic director of Gucci, Demna has softened his sardonic bite to offer up a raffish twist on the house’s signature Italian glamour. His debut collection arrives jam-packed with freshly reimagined spins on classic Gucci tropes: Think pristine leather jackets and pavement-skimming bootcut jeans, embellished throughout with the brand’s iconic horsebit hardware. On TRAORE: Jacket, $7,900, jeans, $1,400, and shoes, $1,090, by Gucci. T-shirt, $53 (for pack of three), by Calvin Klein. Neck scarf, his own. Belt, $155, by Maximum Henry. On BOULUD: Jacket, $4,000, pants, $1,700, belt, $620, and shoes, $1,090, by Gucci. T-shirt, $154, by Zimmerli. Socks, $30, by Falke. 1. Nothing wrong with that Brando-esque Perfecto of yours, but if Demna’s instincts are any indication, the leather jacket of the moment is the café racer—a sleeker silhouette with deep ties to British motorcycle culture. 2. A jazzily tied neckerchief is an easy way to temper a brooding leather jacket and badass jeans with a touch of Gallic flair. 3. The flash of …

Wired ends UK print magazine amid shake-up of London staff

Wired ends UK print magazine amid shake-up of London staff

Published by Sam Flores

Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond, and Jan/Feb 2026 issue of Wired. Picture: Conde Nast Wired will not put out a print magazine in the UK in 2026 as it focuses on global digital subscriber growth. Seven editorial staff left Wired’s London office at the end of 2025, with the team being rebuilt to focus on audience development roles and some UK and Europe-focused reporting. Global editorial director Katie Drummond told Press Gazette that creating a “sustainable and growing subscription business is the future of Wired… “While other components like advertising and commerce play a really important part, I don’t want Wired to be at the whims of anything that I can’t control the way I can control the journalism.” A spokesperson said direct-to-publisher subscribers (meaning those who subscribe through Wired rather than a third party) were up 20% in 2025 while new subscribers taking the digital-only option doubled. Wired’s US subscription revenue was up 24% in 2025. Katie Drummond: I want Wired to feel like ‘genuinely global offering’ Drummond told Press Gazette that London …

27 of GQ’s Favorite Collaborators Celebrate the Best American Fashion Brands

27 of GQ’s Favorite Collaborators Celebrate the Best American Fashion Brands

Published by Jenni Sidey

George Cortina Stylist; frequent GQ contributor; occasional Chateau Marmont resident George’s dose of reality for baby New Yorkers: “I’ve been living here since 1981 and it’s a completely different city than it was when I first moved here. Culturally, it’s different. Everything’s changed. New York went from feeling like you lived in paradise to feeling like you live in Akron, Ohio. “I maintain hope that the younger generation will wake up—and some of them are. Some people are very happy to be middle-of-the-road, but I like people that make waves, who fight for things. People that really hold what they do—whatever they do in any creative capacity—dear.” Luka Sabbat Model; founder, menswear brand Marking Distance; frequent GQ subject and sometime GQ stylist What excites Luka about fashion right now: “I like looking good, right? I wake up every morning and I put on an outfit and make myself look good. And I love making other people look good too. It’s like playing dress-up on a professional level. I pull vintage, I pull archive. I’m not …

How Jay-Z Altered the Course of American Fashion

How Jay-Z Altered the Course of American Fashion

Published by Jenni Sidey

THE UNDERRATED INFLUENCE OF JAY-Z GQ: Jay still feels underrated today, in 2026, in a way, for his style influence. Don C: I agree. When people say who the freshest rappers of all time, he’s not mentioned with A$AP Rocky, Pharrell, and Ye. Emory: And all those guys would mention him. Don C: Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Emory: Why is he underrated? I think maybe because…. Don C: He doesn’t conform to the fashion community. That’s what I think. Emory: You only seeing him at a fashion show when his friend is involved with it. Don C: He doesn’t go to fashion shows. But the first time you see Jay [at one], he’s in Versace, you know what I’m saying? And he don’t get the credit he deserves. Emory: I think the answer to that question is, Hov isn’t on Twitter, he’s not on Instagram, he’s not on a podcast. I mean, he’s not going on Drink Champs. Only time you’re going to catch it is if he’s rapping about it. And then also, I just …

Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919-1921)

Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919-1921)

Published by José Betancourt

From the 18th cen­tu­ry onward, the gen­res of Goth­ic hor­ror and fan­ta­sy have flour­ished, and with them the sen­su­al­ly vis­cer­al images now com­mon­place in film, TV, and com­ic books. These gen­res per­haps reached their aes­thet­ic peak in the 19th cen­tu­ry with writ­ers like Edgar Allan Poe and illus­tra­tors like Gus­tave Dore. But it was in the ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry that a more pop­ulist sub­genre tru­ly came into its own: “weird fic­tion,” a term H.P. Love­craft used to describe the pulpy brand of super­nat­ur­al hor­ror cod­i­fied in the pages of Amer­i­can fan­ta­sy and hor­ror mag­a­zine Weird Tales—first pub­lished in 1923. (And still going strong!) A pre­cur­sor to EC Comics’ many lurid titles, Weird Tales is often con­sid­ered the defin­i­tive ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry venue for weird fic­tion and illus­tra­tion. But we need only look back a few years and to anoth­er con­ti­nent to find an ear­li­er pub­li­ca­tion, serv­ing Ger­man-speak­ing fans—Der Orchideen­garten (“The Gar­den of Orchids”), the very first hor­ror and fan­ta­sy mag­a­zine, which ran 51 issues from Jan­u­ary 1919 to Novem­ber 1921. The mag­a­zine fea­tured work from …