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And just like that, Autumn/Winter is over and the Spring/Summer 2024 trends have landed. Obviously this is something that happens every single year but, for some reason, it seems to always take everyone by surprise. If the latest menswear trends are getting you all hot and bothered, we've made everything a little easier.
From wearing really, really tiny shorts à la Paul Mescal, to getting down like Kit Connor and going all future Studio 54 with your 'fits, these are the big Spring/Summer 2024 trends that we'll be wearing when warmer weather finally comes back around (and we're praying hard for it already).
A glance at the Spring/Summer 2024 trends…
- Unleash the beast with animal prints
- Thigh high short-short fits
- Sparkles, sparkles and more sparkles
- Vest in show
- Need for tweed
- Jumpin' jumpsuits
- Game of crochet, anyone?
- Long live the double-breasted blazer
- Endorse Bermuda shorts
How do we select our favourite SS24 trends?
Largely speaking, show season is twice a year (OK, and there are also resort and pre-fall shows, but let's not complicate this). And so after all the big brands have dropped their new stuff across London, New York, Paris and Milan, the GQ team sift through every single collection to find the common threads.
And it's these regular beats that become trends. Some of them might seem obvious: if five or so labels go big on leopard print, then it's pretty clear. But they may be a little covert too, with colours, shapes and different silhouettes also finding common ground between collections.
From there, we crunch into the good stuff to bring you a comprehensive guide of SS24 men's trends – and we'll give you some product recommendations to bang it into your everyday wardrobe.
The big GQ list of men's SS24 trends
Snake, leopard and zebra prints have long existed in womenswear but, for Spring/Summer 2024, menswear designers have gone wild for it. At Jil Sander snakeskin-inspired coats hung on otherwise muted fits while, at Saint Laurent, creative director Anthony Vaccarello amped up the usual sexiness with massive leopard print faux fur coats.
Similarly, Kim Jones sent models down the Dior catwalk in leopard print vest tops, while the design team was all about horse hair cow print boots at Vivienne Westwood. Because Westerncore, and all that.
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Shorts have been steadily getting shorter and shorter – and the shrinking continues. For the Spring/Summer 2024 season, shorts crept a few inches further up men's thighs and designers have been proposing another round of the barely-there micro-short.
At Hermès shorts were cut from a silk-wool blend and came in neutral greys and creams. Prada got models into high-waisted shorts that were so, well, high-waisted that they left most of the upper thigh bare. Over at Louis Vuitton Pharrell Williams revealed a selection of collegiate-styled pieces and hoisted them up with big “LV” buckled belts.
Designers in London, Milan and Paris are re-opening Studio 54 on the runway. Dries Van Noten's shirts were all Dries Van Noten-y and drape-y, but they were bedazzled with black sequins. Franco-prep label Ami sent jeans embossed with black, grey and silver sequins, pared down by muted long-sleeved tops. Tom Ford, under the leadership of newly-appointed creative director Peter Hawkings, made retro-futuristic sequinned blazers the main attraction in a very disco-coded collection.
It was at Loewe that getting down with Big Night Out fits was also A Thing. The key look in his Spring/Summer 2024 collection was a full glitter frenzy: a sparkly polo shirt tucked into a pair of sparkly trousers – both of which have already found their way onto Heartstopper actor Kit Connor, who wore the exact outfit to Vogue World, the annual arts celebration from the namesake magazine.
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Vests! Everywhere! Not just your standard under layer, either. Vests came in all shapes and sizes and, where before tank tops could simply be worn on their own, vests were introduced in new ways. At Hermès they peeked from underneath crochet short-sleeved shirts, and at Burberry chief creative officer Daniel Lee made a case for vests that had minimal side fabric. Dolce & Gabbana had the sexiest take on the traditional vest, though, pairing them with barely there shorts (see, they are a thing).
Valentino went more formal with his vests, cutting them from sage-coloured silk and collaring them with low V necks. Maximilian Davis, the creative director of Ferragamo, placed his vests over long-sleeved tops made from the same ribbed material. So get a vest, basically.
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Sure, tweed was introduced as a practical fabric for farmers in Scotland and Ireland, but these days tweed has earned its place on the runway (as well as the wardrobes of really wealthy grandmas).
And it isn't just at Chanel, which for a long time has been the champion of the woven stuff. At Amiri, Dior and Fendi, tweed was all part of the show with two-piece suits, oversized wraparound overcoats and thick-cut shirting. Posh old lady clothes, but for young cool guys. Sure!
The jumpsuit is a bold thing, but it also makes getting dressed really, really easy. Burberry's one-pieces are dark in colour and belted tightly, Loewe's were cast in full scarlet leather, while Valentino's were more medical in style and worn with chunky sneakers.
Over at Emporio Armani the jumpsuits were destined for the Serengeti National Park, while Givenchy's were minimal and hung loosely on the body.
For some time British designer Simone Rocha has made crochet an integral part of her eponymous brand, but now it's everywhere. At Valentino coats were delicately crocheted and hole-y, while full crocheted tops were prime for beach day and worn over bikini tops for guys at Botter.
Fendi jumped on the crochet train and had models wear knitted tops under trench coats, while over at Marine Serre and Dsquared2 crochets tops were cropped. Abs day has never looked more pressing.
News just in: that DB in your wardrobe still has some use. Gucci, under the leadership of an interim in-house design team, made the case for oversized double-breasted jackets that are to be worn open and loose.
Ralph Lauren's DBs, on the other hand, were caramel in colour and buttoned tightly across waists, while Giorgio Armani's were boxier than traditional double-breasted jackets and worn with cropped trousers.
Sure, mini shorts are still doing the rounds, but some designers are pushing for longer, baggier iterations of summer cut-offs. At LV Pharrell paired oversized, floaty blazers with knee-skimming shorts, while at Fendi shorts were Justin Bieber coded: loose, baggy and ideal for the coffee run (just to really hammer home that point, models even carried coffee cups).
Gucci's were cut from plush cotton and fell below the knee, and at Boss, deconstructed suits comprised oversized waistcoats and shorts cut from pinstriped silk that just exposed knee caps.
