Just the Right Amount of "Look at Me"

Any good jean jacket has cowboys, bikers, and, like, the Clash woven into the fabric. But you've got options those guys never had: pre-distressed (like this one), a wide array of colors, even versions you can dress way up for a night out.

Jacket, $295 by J Brand. Sweatshirt, $145 by AllSaints. Shirt, $50 by Gap. Jeans, $58 by Levi's. Boots, $120 by Clarks Originals. Bracelet by Bing Bang. Her shirt by Gucci.

Where to buy it? Go to gq.com/go/fashiondirectories

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, The Savage Knight

If you're one of the holdouts to HBO's Game of Thrones because shadow babies and snow zombies strike you as fantasy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays the rakish Jaime Lannister, won't hold it against you. Although the books have sold more than 20 million copies and spawned moblike forums berating author George R.R. Martin for not yet having completed the series ("Pull your fucking typewriter out of your ass and start fucking typing"), the 42-year-old Dane admits to having reservations about the genre. "It's probably my own lack of education," he says carefully, "but you know, it's always good guy against bad guy, and there are those really tacky book covers." What eventually sold him on the show, though, is its all-too-human characters with their flesh-and-blood ambitions and flaws.

In real life, Coster-Waldau has kept a low profile, though that might change this year after he appears in Tom Cruise's postapocalyptic Oblivion and in the horror movie Mama. The latter is another genre about which he's squeamish: "I had to watch it with the sound turned way down. I'm such a wimp." One can imagine certain other names GoT fanboys might call him for that.

—Sarah Goldstein