For a franchise that largely revolves around getting wasted, bowling with your cousin, and curb-stomping random pedestrians, Grand Theft Auto has an unusual number of notable menswear moments. There’s the good: Tommy Vercetti’s Scarface-indebted pink suit in Vice City. The anti-fashion: Niko Bellic’s vintage JD Sports-adjacent look in GTA IV. And the downright filthy: whatever soiled garment GTA V’s Trevor deigns to drape across himself.
Despite its recent delay to May of 2026, Grand Theft Auto VI’s louche, vibrant style moves are bang on the zeitgeist. As you’ll already know from Rockstar’s game trailer (with 475 million views it’s one of the biggest video launches of all time ), protagonist Jason Duval is a man of few words—but many loud shirts.
Most summers you’d expect these searing prints to be confined to the populace of Miami Beach. Come 2025, you can expect to see them all over your timeline…and not just via folks complaining they’ve got to wait another year for the follow-up to Red Dead Redemption 2.
From what we’ve seen of GTA 6 so far, Duval’s own wardrobe strikes a vibe that’s somewhere between Adam Sandler’s signature pickup-hoops uniform, Bad Bunny’s gloriously undone everyday look, and Walton Goggins’ whiskey-addled Rick from The White Lotus season 3. Given GTA 5’s successor has already been 12 years in the making, I doubt its developers were taking cues from the vintage Guess and Eleventy pickups that dominated Goggins’ depression-core rotation this February. Still, there’s no denying the serendipity.
Should you also be inclined to dress like the inhabitant of a Florida Keys all-inclusive this summer, you’re not short of options. Plenty of menswear brand have decided that now is the moment to go all-in on lurid prints. Whether you opt for full Miami Vice cosplay and accessorize with a pair of aviators and a brazen gold chain is a matter of taste and machismo. (But mainly taste.) When Granf Theft Auto 6 does finally drop in 2026, though, I’d advise keeping the Glock confined to your PS5, and letting Rockstar handle the Bonnie and Clyde fantasy.
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This story originally appeared on British GQ.