“You gotta have style,” Diana Vreeland once said. “Without it you're nobody.” We can't help but subscribe wholeheartedly to the former Vogue editor's edict, and not only because she was a legendary author of corporate memos. It's true that style is a sense of identity: something you try out, read about, think about, mull over, fine-tune, pursue, live, breathe—and, of course, talk about.

Talking about style is the raison d'être of Corporate Lunch, GQ Style's weekly podcast, but the pod is born of the fact that we are always doing all that other stuff, too. Hosted by style editor Noah Johnson, style writer Rachel Tashjian, and associate style editor Samuel Hine, Corporate Lunch is a bold and chill invitation to something between a high-powered trend-forecasting summit and One World Trade Center watercooler gossip—only the water is Essentia, and the gossip is the best brands you've never heard of.

Corporate Lunch is where ideas for the magazine percolate, ideas like which brands are setting our worlds on fire, ideas that become features such as, naturally, Labels On Fire or the designer who is riding 2019 like a rocket (that would be Grace Wales Bonner). It's also a safe space to nurture our vibes, as we love to call them, like Sam's allegiances to Hedi Slimane and squash, Rachel's Fleetwood Mac fandom, or Noah's love for the Japanese cult brand Kapital, which took him to Okayama to interview designer Kiro Hirata. Sam, of course, wrote all the other stories in this issue. (Or maybe not, but he had a hand in most of what you're about to read. We don't call him Sam Hine Productions for nothing.)

As Vreeland added in her little treatise on style, “I'm not talking about lots of clothes.” Indeed: She was talking about endless vibes.

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