GQ's Global Creativity Awards (2024)

“We need to use our platforms to champion artists and designers and innovators of tomorrow,” said Lewis Hamilton.

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From Hunter Schafer to Lewis Hamilton, here’s what all the megawatt stars wore to our second annual celebration of the visionaries pushing our culture forward.

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GQ’s 2024 Global Creativity Awards were punctuated by a Marni Jam—a frenetic, exuberant blend of live musical performance and high-fashion presentation.

Michaela Coel presented Hunter Schafer with a trophy at the 2024 GQ Global Creativity Awards—and created an instant highlight of the evening.

Welcome to the second edition of GQ’s franchise that celebrates the world’s most fearless and inspiring creatives, including Lewis Hamilton, Hunter Schafer, Danny McBride, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Check it out in the April issue of GQ—and at a black tie gala in New York City on April 11th.

He’s got one last season with Mercedes, and then F1's winningest driver will join Ferrari. But he’s looking far beyond that, toward the moves he’ll make when his racing career ends.

Hunter Schafer has built a career by saying yes: to activism, to modeling, and then to acting, where Euphoria made her a star. Now, with a budding movie career and big plans in just about every field you can imagine, the Gen Z icon is figuring out exactly what sort of creative life she'd like to lead.

After taking big screens and HBO by storm with his macho-lampooning humor, comedy hero Danny McBride uprooted his life in Hollywood to build his dream production studio in Charleston, South Carolina—away from the stifling industry, and alongside his closest friends and collaborators. That’s where he’s been unlocking a blistering new creative gear—and plotting his best work yet.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—best friends and Nine Inch Nails bandmates—found unlikely creative fulfillment (and a couple of Oscars) by reassessing what they had to offer as musicians. Now they’re thinking even bigger, and imagining an artistic empire of their own making.

Larry David calls him indispensable. Richard Lewis told him he was “a f*cking beast” as a comic actor. But as he prepares to say goodbye to the show that made him an out-of-nowhere comedy star in his 40s, Smoove is facing forward: “I'm still fresh…. I can work with anybody, I can do anything.”

Creativity knows no bounds for the quirky Italian designer who was raised on a boat and designed his latest collection in a cave.

Today if you're the most important new voice in Afrobeats, you may be the most important new voice in global music, period. Meet the current title-holder: Asake

The red-hot 36-year-old artist has achieved global success with a very local approach: applying imaginative, laserlike focus to a few square blocks of her hometown. In doing so, she renders and reflects what it’s actually like to live and work in—and never, ever leave—South Central Los Angeles.

Suddenly, the most exciting, most pioneering, and most successful businesses on earth are distinguished by one thing: their creative spirit. We spoke with executives, founders, and industry experts to find the secrets of the most imaginative companies.

Our second-annual gala celebrating “Big Ideas for a Better World” kicks off on April 11 in New York City.

To quote Apple CEO Tim Cook at the inaugural GCAs, “Let’s free our imaginations and dream up new ideas.”

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Get a look behind the velvet rope at last night’s party, where Hoyeon, Zazie Beetz, A$AP Ferg, Luka Sabbat, and more posed for custom souvenir portraits.

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Where Tim Cook, Steve Lacy, and more celebrated the first annual GCAs.

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Here’s some high-octane inspiration for whenever the occasion calls for slightly more adventurous formalwear.

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As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world’s most creative company on his own exacting terms. Now, in a frank conversation, he offers new insight into his leadership—explaining why he sees himself as an outsider, how he asserts Apple’s values, and what he does to keep from staring at his iPhone all day.

Hoyeon made the overnight leap from model to globally in-demand actor after her performance in Squid Game. Now, at a time when South Korea is minting some of the planet’s biggest stars, she’s working with some of the most celebrated auteurs in cinema, booking some of the most rarefied gigs in fashion, and—after years spent bouncing around the world—beginning to wonder whether the best place to chase her future might just be back home in Seoul.

He changed the course of television with Atlanta and laid out a blueprint for a whole era of dark comedy. And now, out in Ojai, California, the multihyphenate star is preparing for the next phase of his career, building something even bigger and more ambitious that only he could have imagined.

His peers are long gone. His craft is a vanishing art. But high fashion’s master tailor is still making clothes for the ages.

Through her deep ties to the art world, Grace Wales Bonner has defined an electric new approach to fashion design.

The collaboration between the most electric skateboarder and the definitive skate documentarian of our era has taken their careers—and the very limits of skateboarding—to new levels.

A legend of Italian art, architecture, and beyond, Pesce has been reimagining everyday objects and furniture in vibrant new ways for decades. Now, the culture is finally catching up to him.

Thirty-three of our favorite artists, writers, musicians, designers, and big thinkers share the mysterious rituals and dirty tricks behind their greatest work.

This new franchise celebrates the world’s most fearless and inspiring creatives, including Tim Cook, Donald Glover, Grace Wales Bonner, and more. Check it out in the April issue of GQ—and at our inaugural black tie awards gala set for April 6th in New York City.