Welcome to the 2024 GQ Style Championships, as Decided by You

It’s the third week of December, and the trees are lit, the stockings are hung, and your one coworker got absolutely obliterated again at the office holiday party. Which means there’s only one thing left to do before clocking out for the festive season: Vote in our annual bracket to determine the year’s best-dressed man. And for 2024, we’re giving this most prestigious of tournaments a fresh new name. Welcome, one and all, to the GQ Style Championships.

First up, a quick note on the field: Veritable style gods Paul Mescal, Timothée Chalamet, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander weren’t eligible for this year’s tourney, because the former was awarded the Most Stylish Person title in our 2024 Men of the Year issue, and the latter two won this very competition in 2023 and 2022, respectively. (For fairness’s sake, we’ve implemented a two-year moratorium for past winners.)

Even without that scintillating trio, however, we’ve assembled one of our starriest, swaggiest, most competitive brackets ever. The 16 men we’ve selected range from Hollywood legends and all-star athletes to rising heartthrobs and hall-of-fame musicians, but they all share an undeniable knack for dressing outrageously well on red carpets, grocery runs, date nights at Giorgio Baldi, and beyond.

Read on to familiarize yourself with the entrants—and then help decide who should be crowned the 2024 GQ Style Champion. Voting begins today at noon, Eastern time, on GQ's Instagram story. The first round will run for 24 hours, and then we’ll repeat that cycle over the next three days before announcing the winner on Friday, December 20. Hop on over to our IG to place your votes now, and check back in here every day to find out who prevailed and who’s been knocked out. May the most stylish man win.

The Contenders

Jacob Elordi is a bonafide movie star, but his modelesque six-foot-five frame and penchant for tiny bags has also minted him as a begrudging style icon. This year, he leaned into the label a bit more, enjoying a stylish SNL stint, inking a Bottega Veneta contract, launching a thousand menswear TikToks with his “babygirl” gray polo sweater, and wearing the most bonkers post-vacation airport ensemble we’ve ever seen. Even if the Saltburn star is still rolling his eyes at the thought of being a trendsetter, he may well have the sauce to take the crown this year—divisive beard be damned.

“I don’t want to be a part of that type of community where you have to put on a fit,” Washington Wizards star Kyle Kuzma, the tunnel-fit god responsible for that pink sweater, told Vogue in October. “I’m really taking a backseat to all of that.” Kuzma swore in that interview that he was done with tunnel fashion entirely, but ironically, he’s rarely looked better than he has in the heavyweight gray sweatsuits he’s rotated through before games this season—or the sharp tonal looks he’s sported on the sidelines while recovering from injuries.

It’s been a huge year in fashion for A$AP Rocky professionally: he debuted his new label AWGE at Paris Fashion Week; dropped the first collection in his new role as Puma’s Formula 1 creative director; and starred in Bottega Veneta’s heartwarming Father’s Day campaign with his two young sons. Through it all, the Harlem legend kept dressing with his signature swagger—in meticulous suits, enveloping leathers, and swervy designer officewear.

Jeremy Allen White’s style is a testament to knowing what works for you and sticking with it. The building blocks of the Emmy winner’s finest ensembles remain his battered New York Mets hat, a pair of slouchy hole-ridden jeans, and a huge bouquet of farmer’s market flowers. This year, though, White made perhaps the most noise sartorially for his lack of clothing—starring on that Manhattan billboard in nothing but his Calvins. In last year’s bracket, JAW (much to his chagrin) even managed to topple the Vuitton Don himself, Pharrell—but how will he fare this year?

He’s been free of 007’s slickly suited shackles for three years now, but 2024 marked the first time Daniel Craig decided to really let his hair down. We mean that both literally—the 56-year-old grew his once severe crewcut into a floppy professorial shag—and figuratively, as Craig began almost exclusively wearing the rakishly off-kilter wares of Loewe designer Jonathan Anderson, who also handled the costumes for his new film Queer. The high point of that partnership arrived in September at Loewe’s fall-winter 2025 show in Paris, where Craig and his wife Rachel Weisz popped up in a kooky, color-splashed couple fit for the ages.

In between doing swoony pull-ups opposite Rachel Zegler in Broadway’s Romeo + Juliet and starring in Loewe campaigns, Heartstopper breakout Kit Connor became one of young Hollywood’s new dressers to watch. The English actor—who shares his stylist, Felicity Kay, with our staff’s Most Stylish Person pick Paul Mescal—has been taking a page from the early-aughts heartthrob playbook in louche trousers and hunky button-ups.

It takes more than a pair of “bloody good legs” to look great in clothing, but thankfully Jonathan Bailey has the fashion chops to make the rest work, too. When the Wicked star isn’t dancing through life in the blockbuster musical of the year, he’s tearing it up on the red carpet in refreshingly flirty formalwear. We’d expect nothing less from a member of Letterboxd’s favorite internet-boyfriend quartet.

Over the past couple of years, nobody has displayed a greater mastery of black-tie than The Bear producer and costar Matty Matheson, who nimbly mixed-and-matched a clutch of natty bespoke tuxedos with everything from ribbon bow-ties to fisherman’s sandals during his show’s awards circuit blitz. But away from the red carpet is where the Toronto-based chef continues to really shine, rocking a madcap jumble of sick vintage tees, epic leather outerwear, and hardy workwear from his very own label Rosa Rugosa.

Colman Domingo ought to win an Oscar for his wrenching performance in Sing Sing, but first he could take home some GQ Style Champ glory. In recent years, the actor has handily been the best-dressed man on every red carpet, taking big swings in fearless suiting and shifting the menswear landscape as a result. (Hell, even Oprah has taken notice.) He kicked off 2024 in a showstopping gold Valentino getup…but will he end the year with some new gold, too?

Swoony songwriter Omar Apollo made his Hollywood debut this year in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, in which the musician shares scenes with another fashion heavy-hitter on this list, Daniel Craig. Ever since he’s maximized his visibility to both stage and screen, Apollo has been dressing up a storm, wearing crazy-sexy-cool silhouettes from the likes of Loewe, Willy Chavarria, and Barragán.

Unlike most other Formula 1 drivers who are content to stroll the paddock in their team-issued polo shirts, Lewis Hamilton enters every race weekend expressing his fearless style at full volume. The seven-time world champion especially loves flowy, monochromatic looks that play with unique textures and fabrics and often leave the sleeves at home. And with a prestigious role as Met Gala cohost on the books, Hamilton’s style god credentials are set to become even more unassailable in the year ahead.

Most of us live our whole lives hoping to pull off that one immortal fit. A pants-shirt-jacket combination that stirs hearts, both IRL and on Instagram. Barry Keoghan has at least one of those outfits on the scoreboard: “Who’s the cute boy with the white jacket and the thick accent?” sings Keoghan’s former girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter about the Irish actor on her song “Bed Chem.” Throughout 2024, Keoghan has taken his swoon-worthy, lad-approved fits—matching sets, tracksuits, Mad Hatter-inspired Met Gala getups, and Air Force 1s—to movie screenings, award ceremonies, and big-name fashion shows. It certainly wouldn’t be a surprise to see his clothes inspire more lyrics in 2025.

As K-Dot cruised to victory in the year’s fiercest beef, he also continued his ascent as the self-proclaimed “best-dressed” in the rap game. That meant donning a Bergdorf’s worth of designer garms in the “Not Like Us” video—including an icy Willy Chavarria track jacket and a gaggle of Martine Rose grails—as well as sporting a one-of-one ERL belt buckle, riddled with vintage LA pins, on the cover of GNX.

Stefon Diggs is one of the leaders helping the NFL compete with the NBA for tunnel fit supremacy. The Houston Texans wideout’s dedication to fashion is virtually peerless in the league: He runs his own label, Liem; frequents the Met Gala and Hermès runway shows as often as the end zone; and isn’t shy about adventuring into skinny leather pants one week and billowing bottoms the next. He meets the moment every week in a league where the opportunities to show off aren’t as bountiful. “With 82 games to get fits off [in the NBA],” he told GQ in September, “I guarantee you’ll get one or two off.” Diggs, meanwhile, is a guaranteed 17-for-17 during the NFL’s truncated regular season.

Tyler—who won this contest in 2021—continued to sharpen his distinctive vision of prep over the course of 2024, most especially through the release of his much-celebrated capsule for Louis Vuitton. The Chromakopia rapper’s best looks make you want to pull out the J.Crew greatest hits hiding in your closet: V-neck sweaters, Fair Isle pullovers, even skinny floral ties. You’ll be quickly disappointed, however, to discover it’s not that easy to look as cool in those items as Tyler does. And that’s all to say nothing of perhaps the most powerful weapon in his wardrobe: a truly elite, ever-deepening lineup of rare Cartier watches.

Long before Lucky Blue Smith and his wife, fellow model Nara Smith, were whipping up TikTok virality from scratch, he was a teen runway darling who graced the pages of GQ (which then became fodder for countless Tumblr reblogs). This year, the model-influencer couple became the Fashion Week darlings they were always destined to be, and Lucky in particular has grown into perpetually looking like a Ralph Lauren ad come to life.