Inside Bar Marmont, the honky-tonk hold kicked into a better register when Diplo jumped behind the decks and began going back-to-back with DJ KITTYSAYWORD. Apparently, not even a room stuffed with well-known persons are too cool to get method down on the dancefloor to “Man! I Really feel Like A Girl!” At a sure level, potential future Shania Twain collaborator Shaboozey draped a “Man Of The 12 months” sash over his customized Bode blazer. Would he take residence the night time’s prime prize?
It was anybody’s sport in a room stuffed with suede, conchos, boots, bandanas, studs, turquoise, denim, leather-based, feathers, sequins, snakeskin, and at the very least one rabbit tail—every part however the saddle, mainly. You couldn’t swing a bolo with out hitting a laced-out celeb: Tyler, the Creator held courtroom on the raucous most important bar together with his associates Lionel Boyce and Travis Bennett, whereas the younger Hollywood crew of Rachel Sennott, Jordan Firstman, Benito Skinner, and Danielle Haim posted up on the smoking patio. Sennott and Firstman gasped at Skinner’s allover printed go well with designed by Eli Russell Linnetz, who additionally photographed the Males of the 12 months problem cowl tales. “I have to say hello to Eli!” Skinner crowed. “He sort of made the journal. Miss woman!”
“I believe it ought to be YG,” argued Willy Chavarria, who dressed the LA rap star in a velvet jacket match for a Ryman Auditorium headliner. Chavarria, saluted within the problem because the breakout designer of the yr, had a very good case going for himself, too. “I’m staying in Downtown LA and I went to Santee Alley and acquired all these items. It’s probably the most OG Mexican cowboy shit,” he mentioned, pointing to his embroidered bow and western cap. A close-by Chris Black put his thumb on the dimensions for a chest-baring Walton Goggins, who was snacking on fries in a sales space with Johnson and Mulaney: “He sort of went attractive with the sheer shirt, which I’ve by no means seen a cowboy do, but when anyone can pull it off, he can.”
However there might solely be one best-dressed cowpoke on the American rodeo. When Welch grabbed a mic to announce the winner, visitors had been nonetheless lobbying any GQ staffer of their neighborhood for his or her proper to the Greg Yuna-designed trophy. However no one might match, as Welch put it, “The nice, stunning, and intensely fly” Naomi Osaka, who put a chic spin on Hollywood Western in customized Amiri. The four-time Grand Slam tennis champion took off her black cowboy hat and Welch put the medal round her neck. “I don’t know in the event you ought to belief me with a microphone proper now,” she mentioned to raucous cheers. “I used to be surveying everybody’s outfit, and everybody seems superb. So thanks.” After which, the punchline: “It feels nice to win a medal this yr!”
On the bar, there have been no exhausting emotions from Shaboozey, who ordered one other spherical and marveled at the truth that, for one night time, his wild world of fashion had taken over Hollywood. “YG over there bought a hat and boots on! Quavo’s in chaps—everybody’s doing it!” He flashed a broad smile. “After I was rising up and listening to nation music and dressing and styling myself the way in which I used to be, I had a dream, and my dream was to see everyone on the planet, even when it was for slightly bit, placed on Americana fashion. To see that imaginative and prescient come via…” He raised his glass. “Cheers!”
