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Today’s hype-fueled fashion landscape yields a mountain of fresh menswear every month. Which is why every issue of GQ now includes The Drops, a guide to the best of the best new gear as it hits stores. This month, we’re busting out our shiniest shirts, pulling on our dancing boots, and surveying the season’s slickest going-out clothes.
Fashion Friends
Influencing is a cutthroat game. Unless you’re buddies with Tanner Reese, Deon Hinton, and Alexander Roth. These cool-guys-for-hire bring their advanced taste and dazzling style to photo shoots, art direction, and, of course, the global nightlife scene. (If you see this crew at a party, you’re in the right place.) “I’ve never looked at these two as competition,” Hinton says, “only as beautiful assets to this journey that I’m on.” —Samuel Hine
RECLAIM GRUNGE
When in doubt, throw on your biggest, moodiest leather jacket—like, say, this fringed party-goth number by Maison Margiela—and leave your shirt at home.
TAKE IT TO THE DISCO
In this exultant, wild, celebratory moment, there’s no such thing as shining too bright. And this audaciously embellished Fendi ensemble (tunic, trousers, high-heeled boots) will have you gleaming with all the glitz of a Diamond District jewelry store.
STEP UP YOUR STAPLES
If you’re going to wear a tee and jeans out, at least make it Balenciaga’s twisted take on the standby combo: a billowy, two-layer top, surgically distorted denim, and a freaky gloved Lycra undershirt.
VELVET TURTLENECK
The netlike needlework on this velvet turtleneck by Emporio Armani reads a little bit medieval chain mail, a little bit futuristic space suit—which means it’s absolutely something you should wear to the club ($1,295).
ARTSY BIKER
Give your skintight leather moto the winter off and take this boxy, hand-painted calfskin jacket from Acne Studios out for a ride instead ($2,500).
FEROCIOUS TOPCOAT
Skip the coat check line and let this imposing ocelot-print Givenchy overcoat flow all over the dance floor ($4,385).
ELECTRIC EYEWEAR
Factor’s, Atlanta’s funkiest tailoring shop, now makes the ideal supersized specs to don with its ’70s-inflected suiting ($295).
UNFURLED EARRING
Cartier’s iconic Trinity jewelry collection just received a wavy, warped facelift courtesy of Sacai founder Chitose Abe—including this three-tiered earring with elongated strands of white and rose gold meant to be looped over the top of your ear ($4,750).
JUICY JEANS
From the crinkled, berry-toned leather to the twisted loops cascading down both legs, these Martine Rose trousers are primed to help you live out all your ’80s rock star fantasies ($2,332).
SHIMMERY SLACKS
Why dance under a disco ball when you could be the disco ball? Rising Dutch label Heliot Emil’s signature “liquid metal” material—in all its glimmering, glistening glory—makes that possible ($692).
CRIMSON VEST
The illest way to rock this fiery waffle-knit sweater vest from Aries? With nothing underneath but a pile of sparkling chains ($290).
AFTER-HOURS WORKWEAR
How do you make a hardy denim chore jacket ready for the VIP section? If you’re Louis Vuitton Men’s, you slather the whole thing in hand-embroidered sequins, of course ($31,500).
YEEHAW BOMBER
LA’s Keiser Clark infused a throwback nylon flight jacket with the dusty palette and contrast yoking of traditional Western wear and created an all-new, all-American classic in the process ($550).
VIBEY CLUTCH
You’ll never be happier about getting ID’d than when toting your wallet and phone around in this lush Bottega Veneta shoulder bag, crafted using a blown-up spin on the house’s venerable intrecciato weave (price upon request).
SUPERNATURAL SHIRT
Marine Serre’s trademark witchy energy comes through loud and clear on this velvet button-down, with intricate designs burned into the fabric through a chemical technique called devoré ($590).
GREEN GLASSES
If the bright-emerald acetate on these Cutler and Gross sunglasses doesn’t make it clear you’re here for a good time, the exaggerated cat-eye shape certainly will ($625).
STARK SHOES
Thanks to the gleaming palladium buckle and hulking tread soles, no one will mistake these elegant Hermès derbies for those big white lace-ups you wore in your ska days ($1,675).
BLUE SKY SWEATER
Tom Ford remains an ace at turning out age-old menswear staples—like, say, this cashmere-and-silk turtleneck—that feel equal parts revelatory and celebratory ($1,640).
HANDBAG NECKLACE
There’s perhaps no greater flex than showing up with a tiny Chanel purse—which, yes, actually opens—dangling around your neck from the end of a long rope chain ($3,200).
SPARKLY POLO
Carpeted in shiny sequins and a wry throwback graphic, JW Anderson brings a whole new bent to the “going-out polo” of yore (price upon request).
BAROQUE BLAZER
You wear Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarrello when you’re looking to make a scene, and this meticulously embroidered velvet blazer is engineered to set off an especially raucous one ($25,000).
SCARLET SUIT
Everything about this Etro two-piece screams “party suit”: the smooth cherry red velvet; the swooping shawl lapels; the audacious, oh-so-Etro paisley lining (jacket, $1,480; pants, $580).
BUZZY LACE-UPS
It’s rare for a pair of bench-made dress shoes to garner the same hype as a hot sneaker drop, but these Off-White c/o Church’s brogues—complete with leather zip-tie—have the juice ($1,450).
MIDNIGHT DUNGAREES
The side lacing and zip pockets nod to real-deal leather motorcycle jeans, but the rich navy napa leather and impeccably tailored silhouette make it clear these Miu Miu pants are cut from a finer cloth ($3,300).
TEXTURAL TUNIC
Throw your dad’s vintage M-65 field jacket in a blender with your mom’s Sunday church blazer and you get this outrageous blush pink bouclé concoction from the underground Italian brand Magliano ($1,053).
KING-WORTHY JACKET
Everything about this studded-leather blazer from Gucci screams Vegas-era Elvis—in the best way possible ($21,000).
SKETCHY TROUSERS
Grade school blackboard doodles etched in silver thread and sequins on these trim Alexander McQueen dress pants look chic beyond their years ($7,750).
BADASS FRAMES
When in doubt, add black shades. Port Tanger’s latest icy-lensed take is lean, mean, and ready for a long night on the town ($290).
HOT POLISH
In 2022, no party fit is complete without just the right hues gracing your nails. This holiday set from Harry Styles’s polish line Pleasing delivers a quartet of sexy tones in painterly, dresser-elevating glass bottles ($65 for set).
Yang-Yi Goh is GQ’s style editor.
A version of this story originally appeared in the November 2022 issue of GQ with the title “29 Ways to Dress Like the Life of the Party”
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Photographs by Julius Frazer
Styled by Brandon Tan
Hair by Riad Azar using Bumble and Bumble
Makeup by Jodie Boland for Bioeffect and Tom Ford Beauty
Tailoring by Alberto Rivera at Lars Nord Studio
Product photographs by Alex Hodor-Lee
Prop styling by Sharon Ryan at Halley Resources
