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6 Perfect Sunglasses for Summer 2026, According to Menswear Experts

6 Perfect Sunglasses for Summer 2026, According to Menswear Experts

Published by Jenni Sidey

Summer is arriving in full force, which means it’s past time you locked in an elite pair of sunglasses. When the temps start to soar and your options for layering go out the window, every element of your outfit matters a little more—and truly great shades can help make an otherwise simple look feel elevated and complete. In 2026, men’s sunglasses come in every shape, size, and color imaginable. The options are endless: You can go the classic Ray-Ban route, invest in some Hollywood-approved grails, or take your pick from a growing pool of excellent bang-for-your-buck options. Everything from retro-inspired aviators and dainty wire frames to ultra-modern wayfarers and sporty performance joints are in style right now. To help narrow the field, we rounded up a handful of stylish eyewear aficionados and asked them a simple question: If you could only pick one pair of frames for this summer, which would you choose? Below, you’ll find a mix of classic and fashion-forward picks, all of which will deliver precisely the sort of high-grade cool your …

J.Crew and Timex’s New Trout-Dial Watch Is Certified Menswear Bait

J.Crew and Timex’s New Trout-Dial Watch Is Certified Menswear Bait

Published by Jenni Sidey

The unofficial start of summer is here, and a whole bunch of office slack statuses are about to change to: BRB, gone fishin’. And for some of us, the sentiment ain’t all that metaphorical. J.Crew and Timex just dropped their first collaborative ticker in over a decade, and it’s got us captivated hook, line, and sinker. If all the fishing puns weren’t obvious enough, the watch features a tiny waterbrook trout on the dial, a charming detail that feels practically engineered to appeal to menswear guys. The watch, a riff on Timex’s popular long-running MK1 model, is straightforward military-inspired field watch. Hours, minutes, and seconds is all you get in this small, legible watch sans any complications that would actually help you while you’re trying to reel in a big catch. The watch’s stand-out features are its gold-plated stainless steel case, reliable quartz movement, 50-meter water resistance, and, of course, the trout illustration, which is based off a painting by J.Crew’s in-house watercolorist, who also happens to be an avid angler. The timepiece comes in …

20+ Memorial Day Clothing Sales 2026: All the Best Menswear Deals to Shop

20+ Memorial Day Clothing Sales 2026: All the Best Menswear Deals to Shop

Published by Jenni Sidey

REI REI’s self-described “Biggest Sale of the Year” is a doozy, which means that just about anything you’d need to get outside, stay outside and be happy outside is at least 25% off through May 26, with past season deals getting up to 50% in some cases. Hikers, campers, trail runners, climbers and general outdoors enthusiasts, rejoice. Keen Jasper Zionic Sneakers Mountain Hardware Ghost Shadow Insulated Hoody The North Face Through the 25th, you can save up to 25% on over 300 stress-tested, preposterously high-performing pieces from the legendary TNF catalog, which includes footwear, camping gear and even some of their all-time outerwear. The North Face Yumiori Reversible Jacket The North Face Offtrail Hike LT Mid GORE-TEX® Boots Timberland The 6-inch Timberland boots are a stalwart among the brand’s footwear lineup but you can also find heaters tucked away in the shadows. Slip into the 3-Eye Lug shoe for a lug-sole remix of the classic boat shoe or throw on one of my favorites, the “beef and broccoli” field boots, worn and beloved by numerous …

How 2006’s ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Memorialized Mid-Aughts Menswear ​

How 2006’s ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Memorialized Mid-Aughts Menswear ​

Published by Jenni Sidey

Elsewhere in the film, beyond the fictional fashion magazine’s offices, the sartorial spectrum widens. There’s Nate (Adrian Grenier), chef boyfriend to protagonist Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), who is cool but firmly of his time—which is to say, he’s no Carmy Berzatto in IYKYK tees and selvedge denim. Nate is pure mid-aughts casual: bootcut jeans, flannels, zip-up hoodies, and ringer T-shirts. There’s nothing particularly considered about it, and that’s the point. He embodies the everyman (albeit one handsome everyman) of the era, the guy for whom clothes are an afterthought. Nate is critical of his girlfriend’s foray, in her role as a reluctant Runway assistant, into the fashion world. He is also seemingly clueless about the sway that the industry has on its target audience: “Why do women need so many bags?” he quips, groaningly. “You have one. You put all your junk in it, and that’s it. You’re done.” Andy’s chef boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier) positioned himself as the anti-fashion everyman. ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection The film’s other romantic foil, the journalist Christian Thompson (Simon Baker), …

An Exclusive Look at The Row’s New Menswear Collection

An Exclusive Look at The Row’s New Menswear Collection

Published by Jenni Sidey

When Oscar Isaac wore a beautiful double-breasted tuxedo to this year’s Golden Globes, I found myself pondering a mini menswear mystery. I remember seeing the images of the actor hitting the red carpet in his two-button tux and admiring the perfect balance of the jacket—neither too long nor short, the lapels dropped but not retro—and the satisfying straightness of the trouser. It looked as close to timeless as a tux can get, with elements of ’80s sartorialism and aughts sleekness wrapped in a contemporary attitude. But I couldn’t tell who made it—there was no obvious identifying feature to the look, and no accompanying press release or credit to be found on social media. Oscar Isaac in The Row at the 2026 Golden Globes JC Olivera/Getty Images In hindsight, it should have been obvious that Isaac was wearing The Row. Months later, I encountered the tux once again in a preview of the supremely understated luxury label’s summer men’s collection. In a lookbook photographed by Mark Kean, the black-tie ensemble appears alongside other wardrobe staples that …

4 New-School Japanese Brands Menswear Nerds Can’t Stop Talking About

4 New-School Japanese Brands Menswear Nerds Can’t Stop Talking About

Published by Jenni Sidey

In menswear, America-by-way-of-Japan is a well-traveled route. (If there was a literal pipeline funneling vintage clothing straight from US closets to Japanese brands, it probably wouldn’t make the process any more efficient.) What hasn’t always been all that efficient, though, is buying those gems once they hit the shelves in the US—especially the newer stuff. And while most of the heavy hitters—OrSlow, Kapital, Blue Blue Japan, et al.—are still crushing as hard as ever, there’s an entirely new class that’s matriculated over the course of the past decade. For instance, A.Presse is making some of the sickest workwear homages you can find, sticking true to the source material but not the source materials. Or Auralee, which is the kind of brand you could wear exclusively and never tire of and, on a piece-by-piece basis, will work with any existing wardrobe I can fathom. Or Kaptain Sunshine, which has been an S-tier IYKYK pick for over a decade, but recently got a foothold in the US. Or Ssstein, which makes baggy pants better than just about …

9 GQ Editors on Their No-Budget Spring 2026 Menswear Grails

9 GQ Editors on Their No-Budget Spring 2026 Menswear Grails

Published by Jenni Sidey

Given the way the shopping internet talks, you could be forgiven for thinking that new clothes are landing everywhere all the time. The reality is actually very different: So that everyone in the fashion industry doesn’t lose their minds, and so that international supply chains have time to do their thing, most of the brands GQ staffers like best actually only release new collections twice a year: Once in the Spring, and once in the Autumn. And if you hadn’t noticed, spring has sprung. This means (good news!) that the New Arrivals section at all our favourite retailers is currently flush with a full range of sizes of the season’s hottest deliveries. The less good news is that given how expensive everything is these days, most of us only have the budget to treat ourselves to one splurge per season. But what if we didn’t? What if we were, say, tech founders celebrating a recent exit, feeling one with the universe, and capable of ordering one of everything? This is the question we posed our …

How Special Forces Guys Became Menswear Moodboard Staples

How Special Forces Guys Became Menswear Moodboard Staples

Published by Jenni Sidey

When journalist Wesley Morgan first went to Iraq in 2007, he says the SOF guys were just then beginning to stand out. “There already was an operator look that you could tell,” says Morgan, who is the author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley and has reported extensively from America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “But there was sort of a studied anonymity that in fact made them stand out.” Morgan, who is currently working on a book about JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) during the War on Terror, saw a lot of the changes we associate with modern operators happen in real time. He sees the shift as a direct result of SOFs’ missions changing from reconnaissance, manhunting, and hostage rescue to high-tempo night raids. Training in a custom uniform, 2010.Mark Ralston/Getty Images “I think pre-9/11, what we associated special operations forces with was kind of doing things way out there on a shoestring, deep in enemy territory—kind of the lone commando thing,” says Morgan. “The flagship role …

Zara and Menswear Legend Aaron Levine Brought Your Summer Mood Board to Life

Zara and Menswear Legend Aaron Levine Brought Your Summer Mood Board to Life

Published by Jenni Sidey

For a certain type of menswear nerd, seeing the name “Aaron Levine” attached to pretty much anything is cause for celebration—especially when said thing is a Zara collaboration even penny-pinching menswear nerds can afford. For years, Levine has been a behind-the-scenes force at brands like Abercrombie, Club Monaco, and Madewell. More recently, though, he’s been busy designing his own eponymous label, along with launching a litany of collaborations with a who’s who of indie menswear darlings, including the cheery Brits at Studio Nicholson and Drake’s. As you might expect, Levine’s recent work isn’t nearly as easy to find as his earlier output was, and it doesn’t come cheap, either—arguably the only two gripes you could make. And while there are dozens of well-articulated reasons that it doesn’t come cheap these days, we don’t even need to get into those because as of this very moment, you can get the full experience at Zara. And before you have to ask if there’s a way to harness the distinct rakish insouciance of Levine’s work, the answer, blessedly, …