Welcome to Corporate Lunch, GQ Style’s new weekly podcast, hosted by editor-in-chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson. In episode one they discuss our Aziz Ansari cover story, going to Africa with Diplo, and visiting skate legend Tony Hawk and his son Riley at home in Southern California.

You’ll also hear their thoughts on Vogue’s September cover painted by friend of the pod John Currin. Plus a special closing segment called “13 Vibes” highlighting all the best fashions, art, and pieces of cultural ephemera they’re feeling right now.

Ep. 1: Lunch Is Served

GQ Style senior editor Noah Johnson is joined by Garage Mag fashion editor Rachel Tashjian (AKA @theprophetpizza). They discuss Leonardo DiCaprio’s style squad, Princess Diana, the low-key cult of A.P.C., and the developing cowboy-boot trend.

Ep. 2: The Prophet Pizza

GQ Style editor-in-chief Will Welch joins senior editor Noah Johnson to discuss German magazine-turned-streetwear brand 032c; the insiders, outsiders, and Rihannas of fashion week; and Raf Simons’ spooky, brilliant second collection for Calvin Klein.

Ep. 4: Where Pop Culture Meets Fashion

GQ Style editor-in-chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson discuss fashion nostalgia, their personal style histories, and why they love regular-ass restaurants.

Ep. 5: Will and Noah’s Style Histories

It's the ERA OF LOUD BRANDING. GQ Style editor-in-chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson break it down and discuss how it relates to your personal brand. Noah also gives away some high-level fashion recs for free, and Will introduces a tasty new country-rock jam.

Ep. 6: Personal Branding

What drives men’s fashion culture? Is it magazines? Is it advertising? Is it social media? Is it celebrities? Is it fashion shows? Is it… #influencers? GQ Style editor-in-chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson talk all things influence on this episode of Corporate Lunch.

Ep. 8: The Influence Episode

GQ Style senior editor Noah Johnson interviews editor-in-chief Will Welch about what goes into making a magazine in the digital era. Will explains how our A$AP Rocky cover story went down, from why Rocky landed the cover to what happened at the shoot and interview.

Ep. 9: How to Make a Magazine

André 3000. Kurt Cobain. Sinead O'Connor & Winona Ryder. This week GQ Style editor-in-chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson discuss enduring style icons, starting with 3 Stacks, whose GQ Style interview lit up the internet this week. They also discuss who will be considered style icons from our era, and why contemporary artists don't stack up to their fly predecessors.

Ep. 10: Style Icons

Pants tell you everything you need to know about a dude’s style. GQ Style editor-in-chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson tell you everything you need to know about pants. Welcome to the #pantresistance.

Ep. 11: The Pants Episode

It’s nearly Thanksgiving. And if you’re going home for the holidays, you’re probably asking yourself what you should wear around your family and high school friends. GQ Style editor-in-chief Will Welch and senior editor Noah Johnson have a few answers and one challenge to all Corporate Lunch listeners: get fitted for Thanksgiving dinner.

Ep. 12: Corporate Thanksgiving

This week, Will Welch and Noah Johnson examine what’s been going down in the fashion world recently. Topics include: Yeezy Season 6, sole units, whether anyone cares about fashion award shows, Diet Prada, fashion brand hashtags, graphic T-shirts at Art Basel, and more. Plus, in “13 Vibes,” Noah explains why you should embrace totally reckless social media habits.

Ep. 14: Current Events

GQ Style fashion director and living legend Mobolaji Dawodu finally joins Corporate Lunch on this special episode, where he talks to Will Welch and Noah Johnson about how he got into fashion, styling Brad Pitt, and Shazam-ing in the club.

Ep. 15: The Mobolaji Episode

Welcome to the first annual Corporate Lunch Awards. In this year-ending episode, Will Welch and Noah Johnson hand out hardware in the following categories: Best Fashion House of 2017, Best Brand, Best Show, Best Purchase, and Best Issue of GQ Style. They also discuss who’s going to take 2018, and name the 13 Vibes of the year.

Ep. 16: The Corporate Lunch Awards

Friend of GQ Style Chris Black—AKA Twitterati member @donetodeath—joins Noah Johnson to talk corduroy, boutique fitness, Pitti Uomo, Dansko clogs, and going to see The Killers solo. Do you have a question for Corporate Lunch? Email Corporate_Lunch@condenast.com and we’ll respond on a future episode.

Ep. 18: Logging On with Chris Black

Will Welch is back from Paris, where the fashion rumor mill was working overtime. He and Noah Johnson get into the juiciest bits: Hedi Slimane's move to Céline, Kim Jones’s departure from Louis Vuitton, and Virgil Abloh's jump to ??.

Ep. 19: The Designer Merry-Go-Round

How do you get dressed in 2018, a time when every style is fair game, fashion is a leisure activity, and everything is cool all at once? Will Welch and Noah Johnson discuss what to wear now. They also preview the spring issue of GQ Style, and Erehwon Don Jonah Hill gets shouted out in 13 Vibes.

Ep. 20: What To Wear Now

Certified friend of the pod and Vogue fashion editor Steff Yotka joins Noah Johnson this week to talk New York Fashion Week. Which NY-based designers are actually cool? How can fashion shows remain relevant in 2018? Who ate popcorn off the ground at the Calvin Klein show? Plus, Noah fesses up to a legendary shopping brick.

Ep. 21: New York Fashion Week with Steff Yotka

When is the last time you had a dignity breakthrough? This week, Will and Noah offer critical life advice for the season to come, including the emotional benefits of a Big Spring Closet Clean and how to recalibrate your wardrobe (with the help of Noah’s ultra rare brand recs). Will also shares how he discovered the Grateful Dead, and Noah explains why “Colorful New Clothes” is his new style mantra.

Ep. 23: Spring Cleaning

Julian Casablancas, Riccardo Tisci, Donald Glover, Dapper Dan: This week Will and Noah chomp their way through this week’s news and culture insanity and discuss the profiles and Q+As you need to read right now. Plus Noah discusses the world’s most democratic boots and Will explains his love of memes. 

Julian Casablancas In Conversation: http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/julian-casablancas-in-conversation.html?
Donald Glover Can’t Save You: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you
The Return of the Dap: https://www.gq.com/story/dapper-dan-gucci-harlem-atelier-exclusive-interview

Ep. 24: Media Blitz!

This week, we let Noah Johnson monologue about rare Japanese T-shirt packs for 12 hours. Unfortunately, Sam Hine Productions forgot to press record, so we had to do another take in which Noah and Will Welch break down the finer details of the T-shirt landscape—dropping knowledge on the best blanks in the universe, which graphic tees they can’t stop collecting, and the theory of “apparel compatibility.” Plus, Will announces a crucial Corporate Lunch Call To Action during 13 Vibes.

Ep. 25: Are T-Shirts High Fashion?

New York fashion legend Mordechai Rubinstein—AKA Mister Mort—makes his podcast debut this week on Corporate Lunch. He and Noah Johnson discuss the origins of Mordechai's clothing obsession, dad style, why being a hater is too easy, whether Sam Hine Productions is wearing women's pants, and much more.

Ep. 26: Some Men Get Dressed with Mordechai Rubinstein

Welcome to the most contentious episode of Corporate Lunch yet: the travel episode. International fashion superstars Will Welch and Noah Johnson talk packing, flying, hotel entry and management, and how to not play yourself when assembling a luggage kit. Plus Will talks about why he's so into the new Sies Marjan menswear. Grab your Supreme Rimowa and let’s go.

Ep. 27: How to Travel In Style

This week, Will Welch comes in hot with a high level rant about how much random clothing he’s accumulated over the years, which he's discovered as he prepares to move. So he and Noah Johnson have an honest reckoning about what should be in your closet, and name drop the core brands they believe in. They also discuss why all the free stuff fashion editors get sent is a double-edged sword, and how Will is dismantling his all-black uniform. Plus Noah declares that there is a correct inseam for shorts.

Ep. 29: All The Clothes You Don’t Need

This week we’re joined by Austin Brown, who plays guitar for Parquet Courts, one of the great rock ’n’ roll bands. Will and Noah talk to Austin about PQ’s blazing new album, how to survive on tour with minimal laundry services, how four dudes in a rock band dress themselves in 2018, and what it’s like being Parquet Courts famous. Plus, Austin brings a few unimpeachable summer style recommendations to 13 Vibes.

Wide Awake! is out May 18. Watch Austin catch the Mardi Gras bead fever at in the videos for their two new singles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXS8Jpkiac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iir8HyAKqQM

And read their recent GQ feature:

https://www.gq.com/story/parquet-courts-are-here-to-thrash

Ep. 30: Catching Bead w/ Austin Brown of Parquet Courts

This week we plug in with the cultural energy source that is Acyde. The DJ, co-founder of creative collective No Vacancy Inn, and fashion world party instigator talks to Will and Noah about his many job titles. He also talks about the shifting energies of London, NYC, and LA, the danger of nostalgia, and why disco is the ultimate dance music. And he weighs in on what his friends Virgil Abloh and Kim Jones might be debuting this June at Dior Homme and Louis Vuitton.

Ep. 31: Moving Culture w/ Acyde of No Vacancy Inn

Will and Noah have been to hundreds of fashion shows over the years. At its best, the runway experience is a mind-blowing showcase of a designer’s singular universe. But the times they are a-changin’. In this episode, they discuss whether there’s still value in the runway show, swap stories from the heady golden age of fashion week, debate whether you should take your phone out at a show, and preview the juiced menswear season coming up.

Revisit our story on the most influential runway shows of all time: https://www.gq.com/story/most-influential-runway-shows

Ep. 32: Front Row At the Fashion Shows

It’s the SOCIAL MEDIA episode of Corporate Lunch. This week Will and Noah talk about the timeline: how to maintain your personal brand on Instagram and Twitter, the best way to manage techno-addiction, the rules for social media usage in 2018, and why Noah should probably delete his LinkedIn. Follow us on your platform of choice: @GQStyle @willwelch @noahvjohnson @samuelhine.

Ep. 33: Is Social Media Ruining Your Life?

So much went down at Paris Fashion Week that Will and Noah hopped off the plane and went straight to the pod studio. This week we’re talking about the new generation of designers that has finally taken over the runways, what it means that the Kanye-adjacent crowd (and Kanye himself) hit the shows this season, The Hug Heard ’Round The World, dudes in shorts, and why some designers think it’s time to move beyond “streetwear.”

Ep. 34: The Paris Fashion Week Takeover

In honor of #NYFW we've got certified rising star Emily Bode on the pod. The menswear designer talks to Will and Noah about how her vision for Bode came together, how she found her way to making clothes out of vintage quilts, the hard lessons she learned getting her business off the ground, and her secrets to handling the dreaded "old clothing smell." Plus, she drops the details on her top-secret NYFW party.

More about Bode here: https://www.gq.com/story/labels-on-fire-bode-evan-kinori-cobra-sc

Cop Bode here: https://www.bodenewyork.com/

Ep. 40: Quilting on Canal St w/ Emily Bode

That's right, folks: the long-awaited Naomi Fry episode is finally here!!! The New Yorker staff writer joins Noah Johnson in the content studio to talk about her fascination with fashion, her theory that Bieber was in on the infamous sideways burrito hoax, her lost dreams of being a skater, how she convinced the New Yorker to let her write about Online Ceramics, and so much more...

Follow Naomi on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/frynaomifry

Ep. 43: An Inappropriate Interest In Youth Culture w/ Naomi Fry

This week Bon Appetit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport joins Will and the rest of the Corporate Lunch crew for a special ep on food, fashion, and iced coffee. Adam discusses working at GQ back when you could smoke cigarettes indoors, what he wore in his high school punk band, and the conditions under which he’ll drop restaurant recommendations. He and Will also work through a suiting conundrum, and Noah finally gets to the bottom of whether Adam actually believes Budweiser is the best beer.

Listen to Adam on the Bon Appetit Foodcast here: https://www.bonappetit.com/story/bon-appetit-foodcast

58: On the Rocks w/ Bon Appetit’s Adam Rapoport

This week, we break down some key Met Gala fits and discuss the overwhelming campiness of the cultural moment. We also talk how to dress for vacation (and why you should leave your cool-dad-tourist gear at home).

59: Camp Counselors

This week we talk about how the recent waves in high fashion have been inspired by air travel (and how that, in turn, inspired Noah’s greatest GQ work to date). Plus, we break down the Triple S of summer style: Sunglasses, Sandals, and Swimsuits.

Fly Like Nic Cage: www.gq.com/story/90s-airport-style-is-forever

60: The Triple S of Summer Style

Raf Simons, Rick Owens, Sterling's got a new brand, Valentino, Undercover, Noah went to Japan

𝑊𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒

Ep. 61: You Love To See It

Will joins us this week to dive into the pulsing energy epicenter that is Paris Fashion Week. We discuss how PFW became the Great Linkup, ruminate on whether fashion shows should be more like concerts, and pepper Will with questions about the collections that are elevating men’s fashion right now.

Rachel on the new age of sexy menswear: https://www.gq.com/story/sexy-menswear-trend-ss-20

Ep. 62: How Paris Fashion Week Became Coachella

What counts as a fit pic? How do you execute a fit pic properly? Why are fit pics important?

And... what is the greatest fit pic of all time? Join the discussion: https://twitter.com/samuelhine/status/1148982454402895874

63: The Fit Pic Episode

This week, we're answering your burning questions about jewelry. Where can you buy the perfect skater chain? What's the deal with pinky rings? Has Sam Hine gotten his ear pierced yet? Plus, Rachel dissects the horse girl phenomenon in 13 Vibes.

64: How To Get Into Jewelry

This week, we discuss the making of Noah's Supreme story, "Inside Supreme." Read it here: https://www.gq.com/story/inside-supreme

65: How Supreme Upended Fashion

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