ESSENCE Exclusive: All The Hot Guys We Styled For Our Men’s Pages In 2018

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By Avon Dorsey · December 30, 2018January 2, 2019

In 2017 we introduced our wildly popular men’s fashion page, Style Your Guy.

What started out as a few random answers to some of our reader’s style-related inquiries regarding the questionable fashion choices of the men in their lives increasingly became an open dialogue about male grooming and men’s dressing—on a larger scale.

We received phone calls and e-mails from ESSENCE subscribers asking us to help them get their guys dressed. So we began producing segments with male models wearing various runway trends while outlining some of the dos and don’ts of men’s fashion (view our video above).

The success of these segments led us to bring the live action over to our print editorial pages, and with the help of Jussie Smollett, our first men’s celebrity style model, a new franchise was born.

Since the inception of our Style Your Guy page, we’ve added a few more heavy hitters to that list of celeb male models, including Trevor Jackson, Broderick Hunter, Winston Duke and, most recently, Quincy Brown. Not only did our in-house fashion team break the Internet with SYG content in 2018, but they also created iconic magazine cover images featuring some of our favorite fellas, including Michael “Bae” Jordan and Kofi Siriboe.

Scroll through our gallery below to see the celebrity “male models” who slayed our pages this past year—we promise you won’t be disappointed.

Enjoy!

JANUARY 2018, KOFI SIRIBOE

Kofi’s chiseled features helped us to kick-start the year with him wearing a smoldering, Bally suit on the cover of our December 2017/January 2018 issue.

Kofi Siriboe x ESSENCE, 2018.

Kofi Siriboe

MARCH 2018, TREVOR JACKSON

Trevor’s charming vibes got the ladies revved up with him wearing a smoking-hot, blue leather Moschino outfit.

Trevor Jackson x ESSENCE, 2018.

JUNE 2018, MICHAEL B. JORDAN

Michael ‘Bae’ definitely came through dripping on the cover of our annual Men’s Issue, wearing a fire-red runway look from Prada.

Michael B. Jordan x ESSENCE, 2018.

JUNE 2018, WINSTON DUKE

Winston stole the show in this year’s breakout hit film ‘Black Panther,’ but he also stole our hearts wearing this masculine rendition of all-pink-everything!