As the old expression goes, The wolf transforms his layer, however not his personality. And allow me inform you, we right here at GQ HQ love bit greater than transforming our layers. When the temperature levels decline, we long for passionate outerwear; at the springtime’s initial thaw, we wish for light-jacket period.
In 2025, we invested all year longing for external layers of several types. The Sanctuary get-together and its coming with parkas made us reassess gorpcore, while Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme coat made us reassess … the state of the globe and all of our life selections. We reviewed the standards (Burberry trenches, Barbour barn coats) and welcomed the redux (nylon tracksuits, indie-sleaze armed force coats).
Below, we offer an unranked checklist of 10 of one of the most essential coat fads of 2025, as used by a few of our preferred popular jacket-wearers.
The Burberry trench
A$ AP Rocky in January. Coat by Burberry.
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A$ AP Rocky, your 2025 GQ Design Champ, began the year on an especially prosperous foot, transforming a felony test right into a transfixing footway with his court house attire of Saint Laurent fits and one really fly tan Burberry raincoat stitched with his initials– A.R.– in brilliant red string. The timeless Burberry trench, amongst its lookalike brethren, turned into one of the GQ workplace’s preferred garments this year. (Harry Styles has actually been using the heck out of his tan trench by The Row– rarely a shoddy choice.)
The Sanctuary parka
Liam Gallagher in September. Coat by YMC.
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In a year of unlikely truths, possibly one of the most outstanding accomplishment of 2025 was the unified resurgence of Sanctuary, which saw the bros Gallagher reserved their Twitter fingers to collaborate and play sold-out programs to timeless groups. Their get-together additionally planted a restored eagerness for Liam Gallagher’s proto-gorpcore parkas and rainfall coats. All of a sudden, we were done in a tizzy to clothe like Brits.
The run-down bicycle rider coat
Austin Butler in August.
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The procedure of locating an excellent natural leather coat is hard sufficient, however absolutely nothing is sweeter than the ultimate benefit, which is a noticeably used natural leather coat, the platonic perfect of which reveals an near-fossilized degree of aging. Austin Butler showed off a fantastic instance of this in August; so, as well, did The Opulent Age celebrity Louisa Jacobson in September. Yet one of the most motion picture natural leather coat we saw in 2025 got on Youngster Cudi, that, on a stormy early morning in Might, turned up in a crinkly bicycle rider coat approximately indicate throughout the Diddy test, blowing on a cigarette as he headed right into the court house.
The developer coat
Jacob Elordi in October. Coat by Willy Chavarria.
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Male love light-jacket period, specifically when it accompanies an event to clothe flashy. While going to Video game 3 of the Dodgers-versus-Blue Jays Globe Collection this loss, Jacob Elordi put on a properly sports Willy Chavarria track coat, which has actually come to be a preferred amongst popular guys this year. (Kendrick Lamar has one, as well, and Colman Domingo showed up in the complete Willy running suit when I interviewed him throughout his last Met Gala suitable in Might.) Our preference for semi-utilitarian outerwear is frequently developing.
The deluxe topcoat
Harry Styles, right, in December. Layer by Lemaire.
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There’s no higher outerwear flex than a huge, lovely, costly developer layer. In some cases you simply require to stop futzing around and round out. Jacob Elordi understands this well. So does Harry Styles, that– throughout an incredibly trendy walk with his sweetheart, star Zoe Kravitz, and his chum, developer Alessandro Michele– put on a wonderful grey wool-and-cashmere Lemaire topcoat that belted around his waistline. Also amongst a ménage à trois of wonderful layers, Styles’s belted number attracted attention.
The Nutcracker coat
Yung Lean in November. Coat by Malene Specht.
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Call it what you desire– the Napoleon coat, the bandleader coat, the Hedi Slimane redux/recession sign coat– however old-school-style (as in, the 17th century) armed forces layers came barking back in 2025. Armed forces coats strolled down the paths at Kenzo, McQueen, Enfants Treasure Déprimés, Ann Demeulemeester, and Jonathan Anderson’s Dior launching. Sweden’s cloud-rap royal princes, Yung Lean and Bladee, put on riffs on old Swedish military coats as trip stagewear. Certain, there’s something a little scary regarding restored fond memories for regimental appearances (or a previous indie-sleaze variation thereof), however anticipate to see much more Nutcracker Royal prince lookalikes following year.
The loved-to-shreds area coat
André 3000 in March.
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This year, when he had not been using a piano as a knapsack to the Met Gala, André 3000 was establishing a brand-new criterion for different outerwear. At Paris Style Week in March, the OutKast genius went to the Kenzo program in a shredded-to-hell military area coat that made us bear in mind a primary guideline of individual design: The very best garments are the ones you genuinely wear
The dark-denim Canadian coat
Ethan Hawke in November. Coat by Bottega Veneta.
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This year was everything about deep-blue, heavyweight, indigo jeans, specifically in the type of dark trucker coats and selvedge pants– and specifically so when used with each other. From GQ staffers, to Yung Lean, to Ethan Hawke and Daniel Day-Lewis, the dark-denim Canadian coat was the salute of the cumulative menswear hive mind. Thanks to that.
The Barbour barn layer
Joseph Quinn in June. Coat by Barbour.
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In a banner year for sturdy outerwear, the corduroy-collared barn layer became a captivating choice to the task layer. And you do not require an invite to Balmoral Castle to draw one off. Joseph Quinn, star and kept in mind coat lover, combined his timeless Barbour variation with droopy light-wash pants and an Our Heritage ringer tee at Glastonbury over the summer season. Heck yeah, sibling.
The Marty Supreme coat
Timothée Chalamet in December. Coat by Nahmias.
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It would certainly be inaccurate to put together a listing of one of the most noteworthy coats of 2025 and not consist of the Marty Supreme coat, which came to be a kind of kryptonite for a specific type of mathematical guy in Q4. Yet whether you really feel that Timothée Chalamet’s all-engrossing press trip in fact profited your very own individual experience of enjoying Marty Supreme (and/or made you intend to possess such a coat) can continue to be completely approximately you. Suffice to state, if you endured completion of the year without joining an eyecontactship with a man that possesses among these poor young boys– and indeed, that includes you being claimed man– take into consideration that a win.
