Richard Ayoade & Jon Hamm, 48 Hours in Hong Kong

Richard Ayoade & Jon Hamm, 48 Hours in Hong Kong
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Richard Ayoade & Jon Hamm, 48 Hours in Hong Kong

GQ · 2018 · 4:41 · 166,369 views

GQ's Travel Man spends 48 hours in Hong Kong, and the wardrobe stop is Sam's.

Richard Ayoade and Jon Hamm come in for the suit that has to beat their flight home: measured here, finished inside a day, collected before the boarding pass. The 24-hour promise gets its on-camera test.

Filmed on location in Tsim Sha Tsui, still the shortest round trip in menswear — one fitting, one day, one suit.

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Hong Kong is a de facto synonym for the 24-hour suit. Welcome to my shop. Thank you. And as two of the most venerated clothes horses of the modern age, we feel compelled to cop some quick haute couture. Do you have anything particular in mind? Something, some yellow leather. Yellow leather. Yellow leather with a red trim. Okay, it’s Christmas, I’ll try it. Oh, Merry Christmas. I’m going to try to whip up a yellow leather for you. Well, I had some thoughts of something festive. Okay, maybe not that festive. White with red piping, we’re looking. How about velvet? Oh no, I would not say no to velvet. Okay, let’s take a look at some velvet. Take it like the burgundy, like much. Jon, do you want a pair of trousers? Priority demands, I like a corduroy. Teach a real man to cord. It does, thank you. I’ll do four, 50-wale cord. Multi-wale cord, maybe. I’ve got a full cord suit. Friend to the stars, Roshan displays the kind of fiery focus usually associated with the final fingering in the last act of a detective show. Our only defense montage. Let’s talk about styles. Do you want a black satin lapel? Do you want, do you need to cut a vent in the back? What about the interior? Should we do something special? Do you want the buttons overlapping each other? Oh, never ends. So, four functional cuffs. What about the ivory? I was going to say the ivory. So guys, how about monograms on your shirts? Where have you been all my life? My initials are R-E-A. Rea. Does that stand for something? Yeah, my name. Okay, Richard Edward… Ellis. Ellis. Should I get you measured up? Sure. Okay. My tailor is going to come take a look. Is this procedure invasive? Ming has worked flipping hard and played flipping hard at Sam’s for over 50 years, but has never been more excited and alive than he is now. Feel free to jump in. No, I’m just letting Ming do what Ming does. The main thing, I feel like he’s quietly impressed. Very often when I’m measured, people double check the measurements, which is always concerning. Should we get reaction? Chest is a chest, it’s important. You don’t want to cling. This is anus to ankle. What do you feel like you go? A day, a dame. Yes, that’s the goal. That’s the girdle, that’s the one. Wardrobe check, no bad touches. It’s going to be a long old slog, but if you make it to part four, you will be rewarded with taped images of two new suits on two old men. Those denims they wear look pretty good. I mean, I like what Ming’s wearing, but I feel that maybe they’re tailors. You’ll recall our award-winning scene in the 24-hour tailors back in part one. Well, you’re about to behold that bitter seed’s fruits. Good luck. It’s a triumph already, I can tell. Wow. Hey now. Wow. Please, can you see what I see? No, take a look. This is the prison of consciousness. They’ve done a bang-up job. This is as long as I can stand to look at myself. We’re going to walk around the city, and we’re going to make some noise. Yeah, literally, because we’re wearing a lot of corduroy. The swale, feel this, this is the Christmas ham. I mean, it was very nice. So, what do you think? Roshan, this was a success. Where have you been before this moment in time? You sure you’re happy? Are you kidding? Look at my face, it’s beaming. So you’re taking me out after this? Absolutely not. Okay, let me take you guys out. Look, we need to sum up our experiences in a glib way on water. Okay, then we can talk extracurricular stuff. At the moment, I just want to congratulate you for this. No, this, it’s exceptional. Thank you so much. I need your details. You guys are amazing. I need cord in every color. No problem. With checking chomping at our respective bits and night arriving with alarming rapidity, up we must solve. Our Hong Kong hoo-hah has left us looking even more out of date than ever, and ready to advertise some kind of thick musk, but we cannot rest just yet. We go down on this, but gain down this lifestyle.