For those who picked â2,â youâre on your way to GQ Style cover status!
This holiday seasonâs cover feature is well-versed in his Raf: Rocky wears his line, name-drops him in songs, and even worked with him once on a 2013 fashion collaboration. When Time Magazine asked prominent people to name the â100 Most Influential People of 2017,â Rocky wrote about the one and only Belgian fashion designer, âbased on the fact that he built a whole new religion on fashion⊠When you wrap your mind around the concept that we wrote the future of fashion and design in the 1990s and early 2000s, then youâll understand why Raf is the greatest to ever do it.â
Rocky was able to work with his muse and brand a sweatshirt with a simple âRAF A$APâ logo. It enhanced the work of the designer he feels most inspired by and began the cycle again of making his own aesthetic and starting a new trend.
Like Rocky, rapper Travis Scott dropped his own capsule collection with the Australian denim brand Ksubi this past October. Known for his rowdy concert vibe and auto-tune proficiency, Scottâs 10-piece lineup for Ksubi remastered his style as an artist: rugged and explicit to himself.
The distressed jeans, the âButterfly Effectâ artist told Vogue, represent âa sign youâve been through some shit, more so than a clean jean.â He explains his technique in recreating the vibe of his hometown, Houston: âWe really wanted to deconstruct shit, so I deconstructed the pockets. I just wanted to keep it Texas culture â just real simple.â