Tres Dean
Tres Dean writes at the point where sports, sneakers, and menswear meet, covering how performance gear and contemporary style shape each other. At GQ he is a contributing writer specializing in sports, fashion, and the intersections between the two, which most often means covering sneakers. Across men's style and culture outlets he brings more than a decade of menswear experience as a writer, on work that has spanned pop culture, basketball, and suiting.
Sneakers and performance gear
A large share of Dean's recent work is built around sneakers and technical footwear, treating new designs as both athletic equipment and style statements. He writes release-driven pieces on models like a 50-year-old Nike runner that is about to shake up the torpedo shoe wars, spotlighting how heritage running shoes compete in today's performance market. He covers runway collections through a sneaker lens, including roundups of the best sneakers revealed at Paris Fashion Week. In his story on New Balance and Miu Miu's Wimbledon collaboration, he frames their collection as 2026's first great Wimbledon gear, positioning tennis apparel as a fashion event in its own right.
Sports-fashion crossover stories
Dean's sports writing tracks how athletes, leagues, and games influence what men wear, reflecting his focus on the intersections between sports and fashion. His interview with author Hanif Abdurraqib about writing on LeBron James and loving Ohio brings together basketball, regional identity, and cultural storytelling, consistent with his interest in the overlap between sports culture and everyday life. Stories that focus on collaborations like New Balance and Miu Miu's tennis gear or performance sneakers with long track histories present games and tournaments as stages for fashion, underscoring how sports contexts elevate specific garments and shoes.
Menswear and suiting expertise
Beyond sneakers, Dean brings dedicated menswear expertise, writing and editing articles with a specialty in menswear and suiting for a weddings-focused publication. That work draws on more than a decade of experience in men's style coverage, giving him a deep familiarity with tailoring, formalwear, and dress codes for major occasions. Combined with his sportswear focus at GQ, this background lets him move easily between performance clothing, sneakers, and more traditional structures of jackets, shirts, and ties.
Pop culture and style context
Dean began as a culture writer and has contributed to a range of men's lifestyle and entertainment outlets, including long-running work on pop culture, basketball, and menswear. His broader culture pieces, such as an essay on Anthony Bourdain that considers the divide between the purpose of Bourdain's work and contemporary social media, show his interest in how public figures, media, and storytelling shape what people value in food and travel culture. This cultural literacy gives his fashion coverage a broader frame, linking products and collaborations to the stories and identities that surround them.
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Aaron Royce
Aaron Royce turns runway moments and celebrity event dressing into clear, wearable stories that show readers how trends move from the red carpet to real life. He is a fashion news writer at The Zoe Report, where he covers fashion, trends, celebrity style, and related news across the site. He also works in a fashion news editing role at The Daily Front Row, extending his reporting into the industry’s front row and party circuit. As a contributing and freelance journalist, he writes for fashion and lifestyle magazines including People, InStyle, Marie Claire, and other outlets, with a focus on shopping, beauty, and culture. His reporting centers on fashion’s visual language, celebrity influence, and shoppable outcomes across fashion, beauty, fragrance, jewelry, skincare, menswear, wellness, accessories, shoes, pop culture, and celebrity news.
Abigail Connolly
Abigail Connolly stands out for covering celebrity culture and fashion as a visual story about outfits, images, and online reaction. She writes for Yahoo and SheFinds, where she covers celebrity news, fashion, and related lifestyle topics. Her beat focuses on stars, royals, and political figures, with stories on red carpet looks, runway trends, state-visit wardrobes, and social media posts that shape public image. She has written about Oprah Winfrey’s all-white Cannes look, Paris Fashion Week fur, Anya Taylor-Joy’s Dior dress, Melania Trump’s style, and royal figures such as Queen Camilla and Prince William. Her reporting is short, tightly focused, and descriptive, using fan comments, captions, and sourced claims to show how a single look or post drives conversation online.
Aemilia Madden
Aemilia Madden writes about how people actually live in their clothes, blending disciplined wardrobe editing with specific shopping recommendations and a clear point of view on taste and restraint. A fashion and lifestyle journalist, former senior fashion writer at Vogue, and now a freelance writer, editor, and consultant, she focuses on service-driven fashion and lifestyle stories grounded in personal testing, long-term wear, and real scenarios. Her work connects shopping lists, trend coverage, and essays into a focus on more intentional choices about what to buy and how to wear it. She reports through first-person experiments, practical shopping guides, sale roundups, and trend explainers, and her portfolio spans Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, T Magazine, The Cut, The Wall Street Journal, and her newsletter Taeste Bud, where she extends her interest in archival references, obsessions, and inside-the-closet cleanses.
Air Mail
Batsheva Hay writes fashion and culture pieces for Air Mail with the sensibility of a working designer rather than a conventional style reporter. She is the founder of the cult label Batsheva, known for prairie dresses and vintage-inflected, modest silhouettes that rethink traditions of feminine dress. At Air Mail she sits inside style and lifestyle coverage, writing about fashion and shopping from the point of view of someone who designs the kinds of clothes she describes. Her background as a former lawyer shapes a structured, argumentative way of taking apart dress codes and conventions. She focuses on vintage clothing, modesty, subversion, and how old styles gain new meaning. In guides such as her Upper West Side piece, she treats locations as mood boards and supporting characters, using sensory detail and lived-in references to map the cultural influences behind her clothes and the world her label inhabits.