Some pretty significant milestones have been plotted in the landscape of men’s style over the past three decades. The first – and, arguably, the most important – came in 1988 when the pages of this magazine were first printed. It was also around that time that the full effects of Giorgio Armani and his greige-draped American Gigolo were being felt in our wardrobes.
Where before, tailoring was only ever worn with shirts, ties, braces and Oxford shoes (never Derbys), the mid-to-late Eighties saw suits being worn with T-shirts, polos and – for the first time ever – trainers. The thrift store ordinariness of grunge and the haute-terraces chic of Britpop in the Nineties broke ground for the current normcore craze; and that’s before you get to the bafflingly banal proliferation of spray-on-skinny jeans, deep V-neck tees and over-washed black “going out” shirts that defined the early-to-mid noughties.
Though the aforementioned stylistic shifts have undoubtedly helped shape the way in which we dress today, here at GQ we’re all about looking forward. With that in mind, here are our predictions for what men’s wardrobes will look like in 2048, when, one can assume, the first ever beach resort opens in the Arctic Circle and this particular writer hits 61 (gulp)...
Teo Van den Broeke speculates on future men’s fashion at GQ
