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CONTENTS

March

GQ World Behind the Scenes
With the People Who
56 Wardrobe Staples for Spring, Starring CONAN GRAY 47
JONATHAN BAILEY, Bridgerton’s Next Star. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Make GQ
Nick Foulkes on Watches as Wrist Art. .. . . ... . . .. .. .. .. . ... 69
Boss Scent, Spring’s Sparky Fragrance. . . . .. . . . .. . . .. .. . . . 79 Contributor
The 28 Best Stores in the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
The GQ Car Awards 2022. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 DOUGLAS GREENWOOD
How BIANCA SAUNDERS Became British Menswear’s Feature Writer
Beating Heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
The GQ Food & Drink Awards 2022. . .. . . .. .. . . ... .. .. .. . ... . 122 Greenwood is a freelance writer based in
London. For this March issue, he profiled
Features Jonathan Bailey, the Oxford-raised actor
who this month takes the lead in the new
Cover Story: series of Bridgerton. “It’s a well-worn cliché
ROBERT PAT TINSON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 to comment on the normalness of people
in the public eye, but Bailey was strikingly
Finding VIRGIL ABLOH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
regular,” he says. “We spent a morning
The 50 Holy Grails of Modern Menswear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 together in Hyde Park. My green puddle
boots drew more attention than he did.”
FRANCIS FORD COPPOL A’s £90 Million Bet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Office Grails
The Miami Art Week All-Stars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
←
MICHEAL WARD is In Full Bloom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 ZAK MAOUI

Final Shot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Style Editor

“2022 is going to be
all about monster

loafers and
blacked-out
shades. I might also
get into baseball.

Maybe.”

→

SATOSHI NIIBORI

Head of Editorial
Content, GQ Japan

“These trousers by
workwear company

Toraichi are the
same model worn

at Japanese
construction sites.”

On The Covers Tank top, price Photographs by Jack Bridgland. Styled by
upon request, Mobolaji Dawodu. Hair by Teddy Charles at
Jacket, £2,350, by Burberry. The Wall Group. Makeup by Holly Silius
by Dior Men. Necklace (top), using Dior Beauty. Manicure by Lori Banks.
Necklace price upon Tailoring by Yelena Travkina. Production
(top) and wallet request, by design by Brittany Porter at Lalaland
chain (worn as Martine Ali. Artists. Produced by Michael Klein and
necklace), Necklace Julia Epstein-Norris at Circadian
prices upon (bottom), Pictures. Special tattoo effects by Alyssa
request, £3,495, by Fall. Grills by Alligator Jesus.
by Martine Ali. Chrome Hearts.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JACK BRIDGLAND MARCH 2022 GQ 23





CONTENTS

March

For our cover story on Robert Pattinson, see page 124. STYLIST, MOBOLAJI DAWODU.

Jacket, £2,350, by Dior Men. Necklace (top), price upon request, by Martine Ali.
Necklace (bottom), £3,495, by Chrome Hearts.

26 GQ MARCH 2022 PHOTOGRAPH BY JACK BRIDGLAND



CONTENTS

March

For our story on Jonathan Bailey, see page 61. STYLIST, ANGELO MITAKOS. GROOMING, JOSH KNIGHT USING MOROCCANOIL.
Sweater, £1,395, by Dior Men. Watch, £6,490, by Omega.
28 GQ MARCH 2022
PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN PARKS



CONTENTS

March

For our story on Virgil Abloh, see page 142. PHOTOGRAPH: ART PARTNER.

30 GQ MARCH 2022 PHOTOGRAPH BY TYLER MITCHELL



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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Everybody
Needs a
Collaborator

I G R E W U P in the peak of with an A-list actor, makes for Eggers. He built something that peer and fellow designer
transactional prestige media. a cover shoot that would have was divorced from the machine Saul Nash, the model and poet
been unfathomable 20 years that first moulded him, but that Kai-Isaiah Jamal… These are
This is what the transactional ago – or if it did happen, it’d still relentlessly compels it. He orbits of “yes, and”: people
age looked like: I pay you this, be something the talent would drove in two distinct lanes, then from disparate disciplines
you photograph that. You give abhor. (I suspect Rob digs this found a way to merge. who egg each other to greater
us two days, we’ll put you on cover very, very much.) These and brasher heights.
the cover…but it needs to look kinds of risks and stunts are All of that gets at the heart of
like this, and you need to be only really possible in the this, our Art and Fashion issue: In his interview with
wearing that. collaborative age – when talent an exploration of the how, why Zach Baron this month, the
are willing to get on a call, to and woah of two worlds that director Francis Ford Coppola
As it always does, culture hash it out, to take a leap. have come to collide. paraphrases the composer
caught up. People could smell Richard Strauss, describing
BS. Talent found new power The journey of Rob’s Late last year, we went into himself as a “second-rate
and independence outside filmography tells a similar story. the beating heart of that collision director”. “But I’m a first-rate
of traditional structures and With a granite jaw and a floppy at Miami Art Week, meeting second-rate director,” he says.
traditional gatekeepers. head of hair, he did the Harry (and re-meeting) a kaleidoscopic I will never with a straight face
Potter thing and a BBC Four array of the ringleaders, compare myself to Coppola
We are, of course, now in the film, before being swallowed provocateurs, visionaries and – but I find deep comfort in
collaborative age. It’s a ride. The whole into the gargantuan glue people who are stitching two moving through this role,
collaborative age looks like this: machine that was Twilight. industries together as they never wholly at ease being a first-rate
You get me. I get you. I trust And that could have been it. have been before. second-rate editor.
you. You trust me. You bring it. Outside some studio lot in LA,
And I will too. there’s an array of granite jaws Closer to home, you can see And that’s the great thing:
and floppy heads of hair on those communities drawing although so many of us are
Take a look at our cover a gorgeous trash heap – the closer and closer. One thing driving in separate lanes –
story this issue: a wild actors who never escaped their that struck me about our some of us cruising, some of us
metamorphosis of Robert swooniest, most mainstream profile of Bianca Saunders, the blazing – beautiful things can
Pattinson. The dank and roles. Pattinson, of course, did. buzzy and tremendous British happen when we take a beat and
beautiful transformation of He leaned into the collaborative menswear designer, is how compare notes. So, take a beat.
Rob – who will play Batman age, buddying up with a slew deeply cool her orbit proves
this month – was the vision of auteurs from Cronenberg to to be. There’s the filmmaker Adam Baidawi
of British photographer Jack the Safdie brothers to Robert Akinola Davies Jr (they started
Bridgland. Together with our collaborating around Saunders’ DEPUTY GLOBAL
global GQ team, Jack brought RCA graduate collection), her
to life a radical idea that, paired EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

42 GQ MARCH 2022

CLASSIC FUSION ORLINSKI

Blue ceramic case and dial.
Self-winding movement.



LETTER FROM THE GLOBAL
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Inside the
Barn of
Perfect Things

STILL-LIFE PHOTOGRAPHS: MARTIN BROWN; PROP STYLIST, RAP SARMIENTO. STORE PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF RALPH LAUREN. Every Double RL
location – like this one
in East Hampton, NY –

is densely layered
with amazing gear.

I N T H I S M A D C A P era of wild, freewheeling, ranch life and America’s West. But the reason go to build out my closet methodically,
expressive style, the only downside is it can I have begun making seasonal pilgrimages to season by season, not with impulse
be hard to find the Perfect Thing – the the Double RL locations in Manhattan, East purchases that never really impact my style
Platonic ideal of a piece that becomes the Hampton, Los Angeles and London, is beyond a few throwaway wears, but with
building block of a great wardrobe. For because, if you look carefully, the stores are Perfect Things. Icons that will last forever
instance, you can find sneakers with wings secretly chock-full of Perfect Things. both because they are well-made and
on them, or with a drop of actual blood because they are relevant, no matter which
inside, or DJ Khaled–designed versions of I’m talking about chinos with exactly the way the fashion winds blow.
the ones MJ used to wear. But if you just right straight-leg fit and zero extraneous
want a cool pair of all-black low-tops to wear details. I’m talking about plaid shirts like And if it sounds like I’m advocating for a
as daily drivers? Yeesh, that’s a tough one. the ones working Americans used to buy return to style that is staid, formulaic, or
Good luck. from Woolrich in the 1940s and ’50s. I’m classic, I’m not. Again, it’s that idea of
talking about grey sweat shorts that are so building blocks. Just check out Paul
Which is why, in an issue where we are exactly spot-on they look like they were McCartney and John Lennon in last year’s
celebrating the best stores in the world, pulled directly out of Muhammad Ali’s gym epic documentary series The Beatles: Get
I am taking the opportunity to thank bag. And waffle-knit Henleys in white, red, Back, to see what I mean. What those guys
Fashion Jesus for Double RL. Obviously, black, indigo, and mint green that are like used to do with a simple green or white
when I say Fashion Jesus, I’m talking about the dictionary definition of a Henley. (Yes, Henley shows that, if you’ve really got style,
Ralph Lauren himself – the man who I’ve collected them all.) Perfect Things can be foundations of some
invented modern brand-building and put of the wildest, flyest fits of all time.
the RL in RRL. It’s worth noting that Ralph seldom
advertises Double RL. This is high-end stuff, Will Welch
This particular sub-label within Ralph’s made in small quantities, and aimed
empire is named after the founder’s ranch in squarely at people who know. Which is why GLOBAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Colorado, and it’s best known for dynamic I like to think of Double RL not as a fashion
Americana with a sensibility inspired by emporium, but as an outfitter – the place I

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