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twice • …is but one number of possible ways to showcase congruency between style and self

GQ BEST DRESSED 2025 • Step inside the style story of the year. Powered by rémy martin, the best Dressed 2025 event was a masterclass in individuality, attitude and impeccable taste — inspired by the golden age of Sophiatown Glam

Soweto’s Style Vanguard • Stephen Manzini has built Soweto Fashion Week into a cultural movement, connecting next-generation designers to the world and reshaping the future of African fashion

East Africa Amplified • Musicians Maurice Kirya, Elijah Kitaka and Mike Kayihura introduce their unique sounds and share how East African music is reaching wider audiences

The Grooming Drops Defining 2025 • 2025 is serving up grooming drops that double as self-care investments. From standout scents and skin-tech serums to next-level shavers, this year’s drops turn your bathroom shelf into a trophy cabinet

The AI Smile Revolution • Dr Marc Sher is a Cape Town-based cosmetic dentist and entrepreneur. At enamel Clinic, he blends technology, education and patient-focused design to deliver modern smiles using AI and 3D workflows to redefine cosmetic dentistry

Luxury, Unplugged: The Cellars-Hohenort’s Effortless Grace in Constantia Valley • In this Cape Dutch-style retreat, life slows down but doesn’t stop. Neither do the offerings of luxury and heritage

125 Rules to Live By in 2025

Stairway to Heaven

Electric But a G • The G-Class thuds, clunks and locks into place like a bank vault. Now ithums, moving into a battery-powered future without losing an inch of its intimidating silhouette. Our motoring editor, Dieter Losskarn, a die-hard ICE G aficionado, met the Mercedes-Benz G580

OPINION EVS IN SOUTH AFRICA • THE TECH AND DESIRE for electric cars are here, but infrastructure is missing.

Beast mode • In an era of politically correct EVs, here’s a velvet-wrapped rebel giving the fully electric future the middle finger. The 2025 Mercedes-AMG S63 E Performance is a 791hp, V8-powered bruiser with an electric sidekick — and it’s downright magnificent

The Cruiser Wears Prada • Lexus isn’t the first brand that comes to mind when you picture a mud-caked 4x4 clawing its way up a steep, rocky pass. Yet, here we are. The GX550 overtrail is the most off-road-capable Lexus ever — luxury stitching inside, steel-toed boots underneath. our motor-head Dieter Losskarn dared to make it dirty

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9 things to have in place before you die • It’s not about wills or lawyers. It’sabout the small, often overlookedacts that make your absenceeasier and your legacy last

ANCHORED IN AMBITION • Anele mdoda lets nothing curb her momentum — and her ambitions crest higher with every wave

THE PULSE OF A GENERATION • South African sound thrums with stories of hustle, heartbreak and hope. At its heart is DJ Speedsta and Tyler ICU, sweeping the globe with amapiano. brought together by rémy martin vS Supérieur, this is more thana collaboration — it’s a cultural moment. Two eras. Two sounds. one generation-defining soundtrack. music didn’t choose them. They were born for it

The Great MASCULINITY Divide • We lean on them to inspire us, provoke us, or make us LOL. Here, a panel of influential men of all ages and politıcal stripes debates the big topics facing men today

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