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Newsweek
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Fashion Expert Breaks Down F1 Movie Premiere Looks in New York
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A fashion expert on X by the name of Derek Guy has given his take on the attire of Formula One drivers at the F1 movie premiere in New York. The social media thread breaks down the look of each driver who was present in a group photo. The F1 movie is set to be released on June 25 (June 27 in North America), and the majority F1 team principals, drivers, including the co-producer Lewis Hamilton, were present in formal attire alongside the rest of the movie crew. Derek Guy stated on X that he reviewed the F1 drivers' outfits in response to fan demand. He said: (L-R) US actor and film producer Brad Pitt, British formula 1 driver and co-producer Lewis Hamilton and British actor Damson Idris attend the world premiere of "F1" at Times Square in New York on June... (L-R) US actor and film producer Brad Pitt, British formula 1 driver and co-producer Lewis Hamilton and British actor Damson Idris attend the world premiere of "F1" at Times Square in New York on June 16, 2025. More ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images "People keep asking me to do a thread breaking down why these suits don't look great. I gather that these are famous, very well accomplished F1 drivers [I don't know these people]. Since I only talk about famous people, I will do a thread. 🧵" People keep asking me to do a thread breaking down why these suits don't look great. I gather that these are famous, very well accomplished F1 drivers (I don't know these people). Since I only talk about famous people, I will do a thread. 🧵 — derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 17, 2025 He added: "Please note nothing in this thread is meant to diminish the men in these clothes. If anything, it's the people who dressed them that failed them. I am only talking about the clothes. Hopefully, by pointing out these issues, you will learn something for when you're shopping." Starting with Liam Lawson, Derek Guy pointed out the missing tie. He wrote: "A pinstripe suit with a white business shirt cries out for tie. If you don't want to wear a tie, then you need a more casual shirt or a more casual suit. Additionally, the shoes are too chunky for this outfit." A pinstripe suit with a white business shirt cries out for tie. If you don't want to wear a tie, then you need a more casual shirt or a more casual suit. Additionally, the shoes are too chunky for this outfit. — derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 17, 2025 He added: "But the biggest issue is that there's something wrong with the tailoring. It's very easy to spot this on a patterned fabric because the vertical lines should run 'true,' which is to say straight up and down. See how these lines are swinging away from his body." Next on the list was Lawson's former teammate, Yuki Tsunoda. Derek Guy wrote: "I commend this person for trying to be adventurous but I just don't think it's working on him. The outfit is just too large. The proportions on the jacket are also strange [too truncated at the bottom]. But cool that he tried something different." I commend this person for trying to be adventurous but I just don't think it's working on him. The outfit is just too large. The proportions on the jacket are also strange (too truncated at the bottom). But cool that he tried something different. — derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 17, 2025 Alpine's Pierre Gasly was the best-dressed driver in the group, but a simple feedback never hurt anyone. Derek Guy pointed out: "The best of the group but the jacket is too short and the pants are too slim, causing them to catch on his legs. I think he would look better in a longer jacket and slightly fuller pants, as well as shirt collar points that reach his lapels." The best of the group but the jacket is too short and the pants are too slim, causing them to catch on his legs. I think he would look better in a longer jacket and slightly fuller pants, as well as shirt collar points that reach his lapels. — derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 17, 2025 Ferrari's Charles Leclerc might have tried a 1980s style, but that didn't impress Derek Guy. He wrote: "Shoulders strike me as too wide and trousers are too long. This can be a style [1980s Armani-esque]. I just don't feel it's working here. I think this would look better with narrower shoulders, slightly trimmer pants, and less break." Shoulders strike me as too wide and trousers are too long. This can be a style (1980s Armani-esque). I just don't feel it's working here. I think this would look better with narrower shoulders, slightly trimmer pants, and less break. — derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 17, 2025 Racing Bulls' Isack Hadjar had more points to take back, including one on his footwear. He wrote: "Personally don't like this silhouette and really dislike the shape of the lapels. Bottom button shouldn't be fastened. Would look better with dress shoes, not sneakers." Personally don't like this silhouette and really dislike the shape of the lapels. Bottom button shouldn't be fastened. Would look better with dress shoes, not sneakers. — derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 17, 2025 Derek Guy then critiqued Carlos Sainz and Gabriel Bortoleto. He wrote: "Both pairs of pants are too slim. Second person's jacket is too short. Both would look better with traditional dress shoes. Personally dislike luxury sneakers like Zegna's. Minimalist sneakers that cost $1,000 are inherently corny." Both pairs of pants are too slim. Second person's jacket is too short. Both would look better with traditional dress shoes. Personally dislike luxury sneakers like Zegna's. Minimalist sneakers that cost $1,000 are inherently corny. — derek guy (@dieworkwear) June 17, 2025 Lastly, the fashion expert pointed out that Hamilton, Brad Pitt, and Damson Idris were well-dressed. However, he admitted that they were mostly dressed by reputable stylists. He wrote: "Some people will say I'm old fashioned. But I think these three guys at the premiere looked great. And look: their outfits follow basic tailoring principles: jackets bisect halfway from collar to floor; jacket silhouette flows into trousers. Outfits don't look old fashioned." He added: "I assume the three men above were helped by higher-powered stylists. Perhaps the F1 drivers were just put in branded clothes. IMO, if you are a celebrity, you should turn down brand deals. Don't wear clothes for money [you don't need more money]. Instead, hire a tailor."
Newsweek
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Pitti Uomo: Fashion Expert Derek Guy on How Menswear Has Loosened Up
Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. The ubiquity of slim-cut men's tailoring appears to be dwindling, as the styles showcased at June's Pitti Immagine Uomo 108 trade fair in Florence, Italy—and worn by the well-dressed denizens of fashion who flocked there—suggested. "The major change, and I think the one that's obvious, is that men's tailoring and clothing in general is loosening up again," fashion blogger Derek Guy—the internet's "menswear guy"—told Newsweek. "So, after 20 years of slim-fit silhouettes, things are starting to loosen up." Models attend The Hilfiger Social Club during Pitti Immagine Uomo 108 at Palazzo Portinari Salviati on June 17, 2025 in Larciano, Firenze, Italy. Models attend The Hilfiger Social Club during Pitti Immagine Uomo 108 at Palazzo Portinari Salviati on June 17, 2025 in Larciano, Firenze, Italy. Stefania M. D'Alessandro/Getty "If you go back 15 years ago, among the men who wore ready-to-wear suits, their tailoring was often very trim, keeping with the time," Guy continued. "And slouch shirt tailoring, extended shoulders, wider trousers, so and so forth." But just because these looser styles are in vogue, it's not a fashion requisite. The best way to express yourself through clothing, as Guy put it, is to focus on your personal aesthetic preferences and try to emulate that. "I think of clothing as social language. So, to me, just because the trend is shifting toward looser silhouettes doesn't necessarily mean you have to," Guy said. "Part of this is just about building your visual vocabulary and going through cultural history and understanding how people create certain looks—to understand how you can use that visual language today."
WIRED
16-06-2025
- Politics
- WIRED
How to Out-Troll the Trolls, as Told by the Internet's Foremost Posters
Between the Reply Guys playing devil's advocate and the shitposters spamming disinformation for fun, today's trolls play in a completely different league from the keyboard warriors of yesteryear. And they don't just troll randomly for lolz. They latch on to their targets, hoping to get a rise by spreading their brand of hate—whether racist, sexist, homophobic, or all of the above—relentlessly and more organized than ever before. Fortunately, a new generation of online avengers has emerged to push back this toxic tsunami of trolling, using all the tools at their disposal. WIRED spoke to some of the internet's most famous (and infamous) combatants, from a science communicator taking on anti-vaxxers to a moderator in one of Reddit's feistiest corners, about how to win a fight online. Interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Derek Guy, aka The Menswear Guy, @dieworkwear Last week, you wrote a long post on X talking about your life as an undocumented immigrant. Vice President JD Vance made a separate post seeming to suggest you should be deported. You followed that up by posting some photos of him and saying, 'I think I can outrun you in these clothes.' To be honest, that was just a throwaway line. I'm not trying to win an online dunk contest with the vice president of the United States. What stands out most to me in that interaction is not who 'won' the exchange but the fact that the vice president of the United States is so intensely online, at least compared to VPs of the past. The WIRED Guide to Winning a Fight Illustration: Shirley Chong Right now, everyone seems ready to throw down. More than ever, it's important to pick your battles—and know how to win. That, to me, is one of the more interesting shifts in American politics: A large segment of the Republican coalition—including figures like Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh—is deeply immersed in online spaces. Even the official government accounts for the Department of Homeland Security and White House appear to be managed by people fluent in the language of Twitter. I can't imagine any VP in the past, such as Dick Cheney, 'clapping back' or posting memes. Being a highly 'online' person is a very embarrassing thing and should be relegated to basement losers. Do you often get trolled?
The Guardian
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy' is posting through it
Derek Guy was a relatively unknown menswear writer with 25,000 followers on Twitter in 2022. Now, in 2025, Guy has 1.3 million followers on the platform, now called X, where this week both the vice-president of the United States and the Department of Homeland Security posted threats to deport him from the US – the country he has called home since he was a baby. 'Honestly didn't expect this is what would happen when I joined a menswear forum 15 years ago,' Guy quipped on X on Monday. 'Was originally trying to look nice for someone else's wedding.' The threats targeted at Guy, a fashion writer known for lampooning the sartorial decisions of rightwing figures, including JD Vance, marked another alarming escalation in the White House's ongoing project to mass deport millions of immigrants – raising the prospect of an administration wielding deportation as a weapon of retribution against its critics. But Guy's story also laid bare the transformation of X. In a few short years, the platform has become a place where Maga and other far-right influencers not only rule the roost, but can see their trollish posts perhaps dictate policy. X may now be a sincerely dangerous place for some users to post their thoughts. It all started with Elon Musk. After taking over Twitter in 2022, the world's richest man oversaw the implementation of an algorithmic 'for you' tab that pushed content from a bizarre array of influencers on users. Through a fateful quirk in the algorithm, Guy was among the platform's new main characters, his incisive commentary about men's fashion suddenly ubiquitous on people's feeds. Guy, who got his start years earlier commenting in menswear forums before launching a blog called Die, Workwear!, was suddenly being profiled in GQ and interviewed by Slate. Everyone started calling him the 'menswear guy'. Musk later rechristened Twitter as X, further loosening moderation on the platform, and restoring the accounts of users previously banned for bigotry or harassment. X became even more of a far-right haven, with white supremacist and neo-Nazi accounts risen from the dead. Meanwhile Guy was frequently going viral, namely for posts teasing prominent Maga figures for their ill-fitting suits – bringing attention to the wrinkles on Trump's trousers, and the 'collar gaps' on Stephen Miller's suit jackets. By 2025, of course, Trump and Miller were back in the White House, pursuing a campaign promise to 'remigrate' millions of everyday people out of America. In recent weeks they appeared to ramp up this ethno-nationalist project, with disturbing footage emerging online of masked, heavily armed Ice and DHS agents abducting Latino people from schools and courthouses, or kidnapping them off the streets, often separating them from their children. Guy felt compelled to stand up and be counted. In a long post on X, he recounted his family's harrowing story of escaping war in Vietnam, a journey that ended with his mom carrying him across the US border while he was still an infant. Guy revealed that he was one of millions of undocumented people living in the US. 'The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life,' he wrote. 'It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.' He was sharing his story to 'push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members', he wrote. 'I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.' Guy's post sent far-right influencers on X into a feeding frenzy. 'JD Vance I know you're reading this and you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever,' a user named @growing_daniel wrote about Guy's announcement. (@Growing_Daniel appears to be the founder of a tech startup called Abel, that uses artificial intelligence to help police write up crime reports.) Vance did see the post, replying with a gif of Jack Nicholson, from the movie The Departed, slowly nodding his head with an intense, menacing look. A short time later, the official account of the Department of Homeland Security joined the fray. The federal agency quote-tweeted a post from another far-right account, which noted Guy's undocumented status, with a gif from the movie Spy Kids, showing a character with futuristic glasses that can zoom in on a subject from a great distance. The message to Guy was clear: we're watching you. Vance and DHS did not respond to the Guardian's requests for comment about the posts. Prominent far-right figures were ecstatic. 'IT'S HABBENING,' posted Jack Posobiec, a Maga operative with more than 3 million followers on X. Michael Knowles, the prominent Daily Wire pundit, posted a photo of El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, wearing a blue-and-white sash over his suit jacket. 'Hey @dieworkwear,' Knowles wrote to his one million followers, 'what are your thoughts on this outfit?' The subtext of Knowles's tweet was also clear: Bukele has partnered with the Trump administration to hold immigrants deported from America, with no due process, in El Salvador's most notorious gulag. Guy was aghast at the response. 'The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive,' he wrote. 'Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.' Longtime critics of X pointed to the deportation threats as evidence of the platform's perils. '...It's been turned into a political weapon for people who wish to use it to harm others,' noted journalist Charlie Warzel, the author of a recent Atlantic essay arguing for people to abandon X. 'It's not the marketplace of ideas - you do not have to participate in this project! very simple!' For now, Guy – who politely declined to comment to the Guardian about this week's saga – is still on X, using all of this week's attention for what he sees as good causes. 'ICE raided a downtown LA garment warehouse, arresting fourteen garment workers,' he wrote. 'Many of those detained were the primary breadwinner for young children and elderly relatives. Would you consider donating to help these families?' He also took time to taunt those calling for his deportation. When an account belonging to a luxury wristwatch dealer chastised him for 'disrespecting' immigration laws, Guy responded with a one-thousand word history of how the flow of immigrants and refugees across borders over the past two centuries led to the creation of Rolex, among other luxury watch brands. He also replied directly to Vance's post threatening to deport him. 'i think i can outrun you in these clothes,' Guy wrote, posting a photo of the vice-president seated at a political conference, his ill-fitting suit pants riding up to his calves. 'you are tweeting for likes. im tweeting to be mentioned in the National Archives and Records,' Guy added. Guy then told the vice-president where immigration agents could find him: 'Here is my house,' the 'menswear guy' wrote, posting an image of a Men's Wearhouse storefront.
New York Post
11-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Snarky fashion influencer who regularly mocks Trump, Vance's outfits admits he's in US illegally, DHS responds
A snarky fashion influencer who regularly mocks President Trump's outfits has posted a now-viral confessional about being in the US illegally — with the Department of Homeland Security signaling it is aware and zeroing in on the critic. Derek Guy disclosed his 'lack of legal immigration' in an X post seen nearly 5 million times as he criticized the Trump administration's deportation crackdown. The fashion enthusiast, who boasts millions of followers on Instagram and X, admitted he came to the US as a baby — via Canada — after his parents fled Vietnam following the Tet Offensive. 5 Trump and Vance walk to welcome Ohio State University NCAA champs. REUTERS 5 Derek Green, a prominent critic on X, reveals he's in the US illegally. 'I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant,' he wrote. 5 Derek Guy posts a lengthy tweet about his citizenship. 'The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.' His lengthy post quickly attracted DHS' attention — with the department responding by posting a cryptic 'Spy Kids' GIF of a pair of covert glasses zooming in. 5 The Department of Homeland Security responded with a cryptic post this week after fashion critic Derek Guy admitted he's in the US illegally. That post has been seen 20 million times by Wednesday morning. Vice President JD Vance — another regular target of the fashion influencer — also chimed in after scores of people started suggesting he should take revenge and deport him. 5 JD Vance responds to Derek Guy admitting he's in the US illegally. Vance fired back with a meme of actor Jack Nicholson grinning and shaking his head — a move many interpreted as a sign the veep wanted to boot him from the country. Guy claimed to be unconcerned, however — replying with a pic of Vance in a tight suit while writing: 'I think i can outrun you in these clothes.'
