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"The King of Suave &amp;gt; Michael Bastian\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nEstablished: 2006GQ class of: 2007, 2011Hometown: New York City\n\nFacebookPinterestANDREW THOMAS\n\nThe R\u00E9sum\u00E9 of Tireless Cool\n\n\u2022 2005: Bastian peaces out as men\u2019s fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman to follow a dream: launching his own Italian-made brand of \u201Cmenswear building blocks at a luxury level.\u201D Good idea: He soon wins his first GQ Best New Menswear Designer award.\n\n\u2022 2010: Starts a four-year run designing a Gant line infused with Wes Anderson whimsy. He then wins a second BNMDA nod, the only man to ever repeat.\n\n\u2022 2013: For Uniqlo, designs polo shirts with pocket flaps and quirky prints\u2014the first (and only) time we\u2019ve wanted to wear\nthe waving Japanese \u201Clucky cat.\u201D\n\n\u2022 2016: His hundred-piece namesake line includes everything from gym clothes to formalwear\u2014so the Gap collection, at maybe a dozen pieces, ought to be easy\u2026right? \u201CIt\u2019s a great challenge,\u201D Bastian tells us. \u201CIt\u2019s the difference between a novel and a good short story. They\u2019re equally powerful.\u201D\n\n\n\nThe Boys of Summer &amp;gt; Saturdays NYC\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nEstablished: 2009GQ class of: 2012Founders: Morgan Collett, Colin Tunstall, Josh Rosen\n\nFacebookPinterestWould you like a surfboard with your chinos? (c) DAICI ANO\n\n\u2022 Saturdays showed up out of nowhere, a magpie line that gathered all the style touch points of the moment: the surf-culture explosion, the shrunk-in-the-wash fit favored by Band of Outsiders (R.I.P.), and the crisp graphic designs aimed at city kids partying on tiki-torched decks in Montauk and Malibu. As menswear piled on more influences, so did Saturdays: skate-rat hats, jean jackets, cozy preppy sweaters. But what Saturdays did first, and maybe does best, is make the brand\nfeel like a way of life. \u201CWe publish our own in-house magazine,\u201D says co-founder Morgan Collett. \u201CWe developed our own\ncoffee blend, which we sell at the store.\u201D Now in New York, Japan, and Australia, the shops feel like your most stylish buddy\u2019s weekend home\u2014that also happens to sell denim work shirts you can\u2019t live without.\n\n\n\nThe Streetwear Savant &amp;gt; John Elliott\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nEstablished: 2012GQ class of: 2014Hometown: Los Angeles\n\nFacebookPinterestPhoto: Gerardo Somoza / Indigitalimages.com\n\n\u2022 Then: When we tapped Elliott for this award only two years ago, he was working out of an apartment with three other guys. That quartet somehow revolutionized menswear\u2014they\u2019re the ones to credit (or blame?) for the sea of side-zip hoodies and\ntapered sweatpants taking over every street in America.\n\n\u2022 Now: Elliott\u2019s since ascended to streetwear-demigod status: His signature look\u2014luxe, simple layers (on layers, on layers)\u2014created a style movement that\u2019s still building steam. His newest collection of watery blues and drab greens was inspired by the eleven days he spent touring Vietnam on foot, and we\u2019ve got no doubt that his GQ capsule this year will be an even bigger smash than last time. Which was pretty damn big. \u201COne of the most incredible experiences of my life was going to the Gap near where I live in L.A. to look at my first GQ collection, and they didn\u2019t have anything left,\u201D he says. \u201CThey\u2019d had a line outside, and they sold out.\u201D\n\n\n\nThe Curator Turned Creator &amp;gt; Steven Alan\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nEstablished: 1994GQ class of: 2008Hometown: New York City\n\nFacebookPinterestEvery Steven Alan store is basically the walk-in closet of our dreams. Molly DeCoudreaux 2016\n\n\u2022 Most designers build their collections and work their way up to opening a storefront. Steven Alan did it backward. \u201CWhen I first started the store, the goal was to be a really interesting retailer\u2014travel the world and sell all these brands I found,\u201D Alan tells us.\nThe clothes he did make (shirts, mostly) were basically private-label pieces to fill his own shelves. He opened his showroom in\n1997 and gradually diversified: a striped tie here, a polo there, until he was an actual capital-F fashion designer. Fast-forward to today and he\u2019s a one-stop shop, with everything from shirts and shoes to sunglasses and watches bearing his name, all stocked\nnext to those under-the-radar brands he\u2019s found while roaming. That collection-curation combo is a move every major menswear retailer has since stolen\u2014but nobody ever nails it quite as well as Steven Alan."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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