The Biggest Men’s Fashion Trends 2025 Has In Store, According to GQ Staffers

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Trend cycles move at an incredible pace, and keeping up with them can be a real headache. The whiplash can be felt from the runway to the social media and the fashion-savvy to the thousands of micro trends. We’re glad we have the remedy. Below, you’ll find a not-quite-comprehensive list of all the weirdest, wildest menswear moves we’re itching to make this season–along with a handful of brands doing them best–hand-picked by the GQ Recommends squad.

We use our mood boards, images from the runway, street style, and other sources to predict what men’s fashion will look like in 2025. Are these the only clothes we’ll wear for the next 6 months? Most likely not. They’re the only thing we want to wear this minute.

We predict that as we move into spring, you’ll see a lot of layers, from Nana-approved sweaters to windbreakers from the ’90s. We expect the humble Tartan to make a comeback. At the same time, simple striped button-ups are still a staple in our closets. While we’re not yet ready to declare the death of loafers, we do see a change in footwear with ultra-slim, paper-thin sneakers. This is just the tip.

Torpedo Shoes

Torpedo shoes, which are sleek, aerodynamic and slim, will continue to be a force against chunky shoes. The paper-thin sneakers from Puma and Prada will bring fashionistas back to earth when paired with wide-legged pants, big shorts, or even bigger jeans. Torpedo sneakers can be designed to be unstructured, crushable and very lightweight. This is a great way to separate them from the over-the-top energy of Gen Z. –Gerald Ortiz.

Wooshing Windbreakers

Fashionistas are rushing to buy nylon outerwear that is swishy and stylish. The light shell will keep you warm and comfortable in the unpredictable spring weather. —GO

Totes Voluminous

Totes, however, are going in the opposite direction. This is great for returning to the farmer’s markets and for carrying a light jacket when the sun sets. Louis Cheslaw

Little Denim Jackets

Every spring, denim jackets are more relevant than ever, but this season, they seem even more so. Denim is omnipresent these days. Or perhaps it’s because no other piece of clothing straddles both workwear and fashion as well. You can achieve this look by ordering one size smaller. —LC

Mellow Yellow

Normally, the colour trends for men and women orbit around each other. However, they don’t exactly reach the same time. This year, not so! Designers across the binary have created buttery yellow basics for spring to match those daffodils, buttercups and tulips in your neighbourhood. –LC

Freaky Officewear

You’re reluctantly returning to work and want to break the corporate dress code. Labels are tapping into the quiet rebellion of office workers by transforming traditional suiting fabric into unconventional silhouettes or making classic button-ups with punkish details. Frayed seams and stretched-out proportions are the key. —GO

Clasps on fire

Peacoats and truckers are getting updated with vintage-inspired clasps. Mfpen will be releasing a denim fireman-clasp jacket in the next few months. I dig it. This simple change adds a workwear edge for more formal pieces. You can still enjoy classic style functionality without the associations of, say, giant round peacoat buttons or a Barbour zip. eBay and Depop have some great finds, but if you’re looking for something new, here are some suggestions. —LC

Crewneck Cardigans

You can do a lot of knitwear swerves right now. But the easiest one is the best for this season. Crewneck cardigans are on the rise, and they can help you achieve the perfect fit like no other sweater. You can wear the crewneck cardigan in a variety of ways, thanks to the simple change in the neckline. It’s great for wearing open or with buttons all the way up. We wouldn’t mind if you added pearls. –Michael Nolledo

Tartan Dress Shirts

Dress shirts with solids and stripes are always safe to wear with a sports coat or suit. If you add some plaid to the mix, however, you’ll look like Redford from The President’s Men or Wes Anderson at any time–a bit rumpled, professorial and ready to loosen your ties and do the job. Yang Yi Goh

Razor-Thin Glasses

We’ve seen a lot of trends return to fashion thanks to the revival of ’90s-era styles. While the eras weren’t strangers to thick-framed, bug-eyed sunglasses, we are seeing ultra-thin, featherlight eyewear making a comeback. Instead of Kurt Cobain’s iconic ivory goggles or the razor-thin metal shades worn by E-40, the style of The Matrix was dominated by rimless sunglasses. —GO

Little Pins

What is the newest frontier of “Men wearing jewellery more”? Broaches and pins. Drew Starkey is wearing a simple brooch, Jacob Elordi is sporting a fun frog, and Kendrick is also in the act. Hell, the Oscars red carpet looked like a sparkling wonderland. What is the joy of this style? It can be worn with any outfit.

More Trends for the Rest of 2025

Our highly accurate trend predictions were first released at the start of the year. While we are confident that our menswear Nostradamus will always be right, it is possible we won’t see all the fortunes until the season has ripened. Mark our words: these are the other trends that you can expect for the remainder of the year.

Cuffless Beanies

For more than a century, beanies with cuffs have been the most popular headwear for men. It has led to endless memes about the tiny beanie man with a thick moustache, small tattoos, and even a tote bag. We’re now seeing a move towards more low-profile, streamlined alternatives. Welcome to the brave new world of cuffless beanies. We don’t see this trend going anywhere anytime soon. Brands such as Arc’teryx are promoting the skull cap. —GO

Bootcut Jeans

My world was rearranged a bit when I put on the chocolate Our Legacy bootcut denim at Dover Street Market. Was it a waste of my time to compare slim-leg jeans with wider-leg ones? After all, this was the best of both. Bootcuts are slim in the thigh and leg but flowy and drapey from the knee downward. They have a bit of everything. Now that Timmy and Kendrick are both celebrating denim that gets bigger as it goes down, I would say that the train has already left the station. —LC

Zippy Sweaters

Zippers and knitwear make for an uncomfortable alliance. Snags can be disastrous when they are attached to the garment by a zipper, and the methods used to attach them to the garment are sometimes flimsy. Zip cardigans have been replacing button-style cardigans, track jackets, and quarter-zips in recent years. While it may be uncomfortable, this alliance can prove to be fruitful. When the zipper is large or shiny, it contrasts knits in a way that is more interesting than buttons, and when the zip is low-profile, it fades the placket away, which buttons cannot. I’ve worn an old one non-stop for the past two months. Reed Nelson

Slouchier Sweats

Joggers are dead. The sweatpants they killed are more like Y2K jeans, big and baggy with hems that spill out over slip-on and, if you’re a Saint Laurent fanatic, kicky boots. It should be easy to make the switch if your pants already worship Armani’s louche past. —Avidan Grossman

Pants with a Literal Twist

What is the future of big pants in 2025? You should focus on construction instead of worrying about the fit. If there’s anything to watch out for, it’s pants that have twisted seams. Delinquent seams, whether they curl around the front of the leg or the back of it, have all the ingredients for a big year. They are a touch of roughed-up freakiness with a healthy dosage of Y2K nostalgia. Curved is the way to go for your next swerve. –MN

Rough Rings

Shiny silver is getting more and more scratched, and I can’t imagine it will stop, especially with retailers such as SSENSE and Harrods stocking up on designers like The Ouze. I was intrigued by it–I had never worn jewellery because I didn’t like to draw attention to myself. But I have been loving the more rustic pieces that I’ve acquired over the past few months. —LC

Gentlemanly Gorp

Round two of Gorpcore is for men who want more than just to be outdoors. They want to go outdoors in fabrics their great-great-grandfather would have worn. What if he were, for example, an Austrian Shepherd? Corduroy, boiled wool, felt, and fleece are all examples. There’s no ‘-Tex in the mix. —LC

Cowichan Knits

For well over a hundred years, Cowichan-based Indigenous knitters have created their sweaters. These cardigans with shawl collars are designed to combat the British Columbian cold. Kanata is still a great place to get the original, but there are also many updated versions available today, such as the hybrid bomber jacket or Haven’s blacked-out banger. —YYG

Bulked Up Boat Shoes

Boat shoes have been a huge hit in recent years. I can understand why declaring a vertical version of this polarizing design as “back” or “trending” isn’t very helpful. The bulkier, more durable, more structural versions are far more interesting – and more useful – than the classic, two-eye, round-soled models. They are everywhere and worn in all contexts. This is more mainstreaming than a trend, but it’s still happening. —RN

Clean, Crisp and Raw Denim

Since the last raw-denim revival, we have seen a range of bold blue jeans styles from shredded denim to acid washes and overdyed colours. In 2025, we’ll be going back to a simpler and cleaner aesthetic. In order to anchor our outfits, we’ll bring back the pure, dark, inky blue indigo. It’s possible we won’t be approaching it the way the selvedge-obsessed fade-it-yourself denimheads of the 2010s did. It’s more like a denim detox or a re-awakening. —GO

Tiny Tickers

A tiny Seiko bracelet from the 1970s is one of my favourite things that I’ve bought in the past year. It’s more bracelet than watch, and it makes the watch even better. The watch is a woman’s model, but my wrists are small. Nowadays, women beat men at their games. The coos that my new watch-let elicits indicate that small watches will be even bigger in 2025. —AG