A$AP Rocky Is Your 2025 GQ Style Champion

Grab your hot cocoa, fire up your Instagram app, and gather ’round: It’s the third week of December, which means ’tis finally the season to rock the vote in our annual bracket to determine the best-dressed famous man of the year-as decided by you. That’s right. Welcome to the 2025 GQ Style Championships. We’ve got 16 well-heeled contenders in our midst. Let the democratic process begin! And the Winner Is... Was it simply written in the stars? Like, could anyone have had a better 2025 than A$AP Rocky? Let’s just bask in the glories for a moment: Bear-hugged Rihanna after his not-guilty verdict . Appointed as the creative director of Ray-Ban . Co-hosted the Met Gala . Staged a fashion show set in a mock courtroom in Paris. Yukked it up with Denzel in a Spike Lee movie that premiered at Cannes . Became a girl dad . Maybe-almost released that damn album (ha, nice try!). And now, voted your GQ Style Champion of 2025. For the last 24 hours, Rocky and his truly formidable opponent, Jacob Elordi, were locked in a neck-in-neck race on GQ ’s Instagram. But the Fashion Killa, Mr. 2025 himself, nabbed one final W for his year full of Ws by just two percentage points . The final tally? Rocky claimed 51% of the votes; Elordi, 49%. Talk about a matchup for the ages. We’re sweating just thinking about it. (But really, one might’ve predicted this outcome all the way back in January, when Rocky spent his first month of the year at a Los Angeles courthouse, in the weeks leading up to that aforementioned not-guilty verdict, clad in a parade of hot-off-the-rack Saint Laurent suits secured by his super-stylist, Matthew Henson. From the start, it was Flacko’s race to lose.) Indeed, Rocky, the man who once name-checked nearly two dozen designers and luxury labels-among them Jil Sanders, Thom Browne, Ann Demeulemeester, Visvim, Lanvin, Balmain, Goyard, Isabel Marant, and Dior-in one single rap verse , can now rightfully claim his crown. The Finals, 12/18 And in many ways, it was fated. We now have our final two contenders-A$AP Rocky and Jacob Elordi-and we can’t say we’re surprised. Both fellas are stalwarts in the Menswearosphere, and both showcased their sartorial prowess on major stages in 2025. In January, Rocky went full Hollywood by managing to turn a felony trial into a catwalk (indeed, his luxe courthouse suits became some of our favorite looks of the year). This fall, Elordi took a stab at the method-dressing trend by wearing lots of green and spooky prints during his Frankenstein press tour . (How thematically fitting, by the way, that Elordi bested his Frankenstein costar Oscar Isaac to reach the finals. An Oedipal conflict...resolved!) But who will prevail? Rocky, the proud clotheshorse and self-proclaimed Fashion Killa? He might love clothes more than anyone else on this list. But lest we forget-Elordi, the reluctant trendsetter, was the runner-up in last year’s bracket. This one’s going to be a nail-biter. Better...

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