{"id":54848,"date":"2025-10-01T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:13:08","slug":"jonathan-bailey-managed-to-make-a-corporate-quarter-zip-feel-downright-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54848\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Bailey Managed to Make a Corporate Quarter-Zip Feel Downright Sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Wednesday was going nowhere fast. The week is slow, the coffee isn\u2019t hitting, Fashion Month continues to beat me into submission. But then, from the clouds: one perfect Jonathan Bailey fit, my soul to keep. Over in Paris, Jonathan Anderson<\/a> has just made his womenswear debut for Dior\u2014and Bailey arrived in full corpcore glory.<\/p>\n

Sitting front row to watch pretty dresses and tricorne hats sail by, Bailey<\/a> was dressed like a sexy office drone, the apple of the department\u2019s eye and a prime workplace crush. As soon as I saw it, my fingers flew across my Slack keyboard, typing eloquent and succinct prose: \u201cOh fuck yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

You see, Bailey did something here I believe in deeply: He made an office fit<\/a> feel hot. Over a standard issue blue shirt and striped tie<\/a>, Bailey wore a Dior printed navy quarter-zip<\/a>, which was pulled down just enough to frame the tie. Down below, Bailey sported straight-leg blue jeans and some brown mule shoes that fall neatly into the unsexy shoes<\/a> trend we\u2019ve been pushing. No shiny leather loafers<\/a> here, just brown suede and an endearingly frumpy round toe.<\/p>\n

\"Jonathan<\/p>\n

Neil Mockford<\/p>\n

Separately, the components shouldn\u2019t work. It should be too middle manager, too working professional. It should be too Severance<\/a> (minus the zeitgeistiness). But, strangely, wonderfully, Bailey made it work. It makes me want to purchase a quarter-zip sweater immediately\u2014and god help whichever FiDi yuppie that tries to stand in my way.<\/p>\n

Maybe the true linchpin here is the shape of his jeans, which are wider and slightly relaxed. Or perhaps it\u2019s the bagginess of the sweater and its hoodie-like pockets, which offer a more petulant and youthful air than the typical finance bro pullover. Or, you know, it could be the fact that it\u2019s Jonathan Bailey. Either way, the end effect is my water-cooler fantasy, the subject of Slack whispering and clandestine after-work drinks.<\/p>\n

Will the quarter-zip have another resurgence? I\u2019m betting on it.<\/p>\n

This story originally appeared on British GQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Wednesday was going nowhere fast. The week is slow, the coffee isn\u2019t hitting, Fashion Month continues to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14652,2582,111,139,69,46349,2791,46348,145,15593],"class_list":{"0":"post-54848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-digital_syndication","9":"tag-dior","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-office-style","14":"tag-style","15":"tag-sweaters","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}