How do you measure a year in the life? As it turns out: in daylights, in sunsets, and in selfies. As we look back upon 2025, we asked the well-heeled staffers of GQ to scroll through their camera rolls and share their best (or even just most memorable) outfits of the year. Through all the destination weddings, RTO mandates, weeknight dinners, and Met Gala afterparties, we all, as they say, really put that shit on.
Scroll on to see our best outfits—and, in turn, some version of our best selves—from 2025.
Photo: Savannah Sobrevilla
2025 was my most journo-boy year yet. I did a lot of party reporting—including a piece that required me to go out for seven days straight—which meant I needed to be strategic about my outfits. I wanted them to be easy to move in and approachable, so I could chase partygoers around without scaring them off, but I also wanted these outfits to be playful, so I could feel confident when talking to complete strangers about their private thoughts and gatekept warehouse raves when they’d rather have spent their molly high making out with someone in a hammock. I wore some variation of this ensemble for maybe 60 days straight over the summer: deeply broken-in Rag & Bone jeans, studded Coach loafers or ultra-high platforms (helpful for catching a better view in a crowd), a hands-free messenger bag, and a teeny tee emblazoned with a disarmingly silly motif like a big red star or a dirty quote written in bedazzled letters. It wasn’t the most elegant or drippy thing I wore this year, but it is the formula that helped me get the job done. —Savannah Sobrevilla, associate style editor
