He’s done it for a second year in a row! After a weekend of voting, Zayn has triumphed over David Beckham in the GQ Best-Dressed Man in Britain Reader’s Playoffs. With voting the closest to call on Instagram, adding this together with all the votes cast on Twitter and Facebook, Zayn stormed to victory with 75 per cent of the total vote.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the matches over the past week, and to all the original eight contenders – it was a series of tough matches well fought, with a few sartorial surprises along the way.

We think you’ve chosen a worthy winner – as you might have guessed from the fact that we honoured him as our Hugo Boss Most Stylish Man at the recent GQ Men of the Year awards. Zayn is known for his effortless and experimental dress sense, and while he tends to stick to streetwear (regularly wearing labels like Stone Island and Tommy Hilfiger), he also reps sleek looks from the most storied fashion houses like Louis Vuitton, Tom Ford and Versace. And his genius lies in the fact that no matter how far he’s pushing those boundaries, he looks damn good. The man’s living proof that while money can buy cool clothes when you hit the big time, it can’t buy style – that’s something you’re born with.

So the real question is, can he make it a hattrick? Tune in this time next year.

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Young love! Zayn and Gigi Hadid are not shy about sharing their love. As Us Weekly first reported in November 2015, the “Dusk Till Dawn” singer, who is hosting Us Weekly’s Most Stylish New Yorkers party on Tuesday, September 12, and the 22-year-old blonde bombshell became exclusive following his departure from One Direction. Ever since going public with their romance in December 2015, the pair have been showing off their love for one another with a bit of PDA.

Though when it comes to dating in the public eye, the 24-year-old Brit pays no attention to what’s being said. In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Malik, named one of Us’ Most Stylish New Yorkers, opens up about their relationship, his signature style and his life as a solo artist with Us’ managing editor, Jennifer Peros.

Us: How do you describe your style?
ZM: I just wear whatever feels good on the day. I’m not really one to overthink things; whatever looks good I’ll put on. But I have a serious problem for sneakers and trainers.

Us: Any big fashion mistakes?
ZM: Nothing so far. It’s probably gonna happen in a few years and I’m gonna look back like, “Oh, s–t,” but right now I’m cool with everything.

Us: Does Gigi help you choose looks?
ZM: She doesn’t really pick out my outfits, but we do the normal thing between boyfriend and girlfriend where we’re like, “I like this,” or “that looks nice on you.”

Us: So you ask her, “Is this good?”
ZM: “Does my ass look big in this?”

Us: How do you both handle dating in the spotlight?
ZM: We try not to think about it too much. There are a lot of people who are too busy in other people’s lives. I just concentrate on my relationship and try to do right by my girlfriend and she does by me, and we hope for the best, as we all do!

Us: What’s a typical date night?
ZM: We both cook, so we like to make meals for each other. I make chicken and sweet corn pie. She likes that.

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Zayn Says He’s Happy, Don’t Worry. Whether it’s about his new album or mental wellness, Zayn says, “My fans can rest assured everything is under control.”

Last week I got a phone call: “Zayn feels like doing an interview.” I’d been waiting for this moment ever since the bad boy of Bradford’s 2015 FADER cover story, his first major press since going solo and one my favorite pieces we’ve put to print. Our original interview was in the lead-up to Zayn’s debut album, Mind of Mine, and this one, done ahead of the Sia-featuring “Dusk Till Dawn,” signals things are finally coming into place for his sophomore LP.

Details are still scant on Z2 — he wouldn’t tell me the title or release date, though “a tour is definitely on the cards” this time. But as is always the case with Zayn, if you read between the lines you can see mountains. He’s sleeping well. He’s gardening. He tells a beautiful story about translating English letters to his immigrant grandfather. Great things are coming “soon.”

Here’s everything Zayn wants you to know.

When I heard we were going to talk again I tweeted “What would you ask Zayn?” and I already got 2,000 replies. So we just have to run through those real quick.

Shit, yeah, I’ve got time for it. Don’t worry about it.

The biggest thing people said is just: Is Zayn happy? Is he healthy? Is he getting his rest?

I am, yeah. Super. I definitely am. I’m going to bed quite early at the minute. I’ve been working in the studio throughout the day and going to bed at a reasonable time, getting up at reasonable times. Eating all my meals. I’ve got a gym at the house, so I’ve starting doing a bit of training. My fans can rest assured everything is under control, haha.

When are you going to quit smoking, Zayn? I see you smoking too much.

I don’t know. I can’t give an answer to that because it would probably be a lie. We’ll just say “soon.” Continue Reading ➔

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ZAYN is on the show chatting to Scott and Chris about his new single, life as a pop star and why he’s gone and shaved his head! life as a pop star and why he’s shaved his head!

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The 24-year-old reveals the childhood inspiration behind his blockbuster video for ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ – the first single from an upcoming second album full of pop experiments searching for “what’s out of character in R&B.”

ZAYN dropped the first single from his upcoming second album yesterday, marking the start of a new chapter in his sharply-watched evolution from boy band hitmaker to R&B solo success. But the bombastic ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ wasn’t what some predicted. After the sleek, chrome sounds and carefully curated cast of underground collaborators on his 2016 album Mind Of Mine stressed an intimate, adult new direction, what arrived yesterday was a stadium ballad produced by pop production maestro Greg Kurstin, assisted by Sia and doused in Hollywood spectacle.

“It’s definitely a nod to a particular era of music videos,” he tells FACT about its Marc Webb-directed video, a Chinatown heist mini-movie crammed into five action-packed minutes. “The early ‘90s, around that period, people really tried to make these epic, intense movies for their videos, Michael Jackson being a great example of that. I wanted to come back and give my fans something along those lines rather than just some blasé video.”

ZAYN says he and Webb took “a lot of reference from old gangster movies that I grew up watching – Casino, Goodfellas and so on. I used to watch a lot of aggressive shooting movies. Now to be honest I’m more about watching documentaries on all kinds of random shit on Netflix,” he laughs. “I must be getting old.”
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Since leaving One Direction, Zayn Malik, the group’s first émigré, has walked his own path in more ways than one. From heavy metal tuxes to vintage band merch, this year the one-time boy wonder became a man to look up to.

Zayn Malik has come a long way. Not just geographically (our shoot in Los Angeles happened a full 5,282 miles away from his hometown of Bradford), but also since he left One Direction – one of the most successful boy bands of all time. Since March 2015 he’s had a phenomenally successful first album (Mind Of Mine hit No1 on both sides of the Atlantic) and a global smash debut single in the form of “Pillowtalk” (he’s the first British act in chart history to kick-start their career with a No1 single on the American Billboard Hot 100), as well as dating the most famous supermodel in the world, Gigi Hadid. Now he’s repping a tux for his second GQ cover this year and preparing to take home the Hugo Boss Most Stylish Man Of The Year award.

Quick reminder: the man’s only 24 years old. If there was an entry in the dictionary for the phrase “stratospheric rise to fame”, Malik’s picture would be next to it – possibly multiple shots featuring the myriad haircuts and colours he’s tried out since going solo.

And he’s not slowing down. Last night he was in the studio he’s built in his LA pad, working on new material and putting the finishing touches to the tracklist of his second album (due later this year). Turns out, it’s been a very different experience from his first record. Continue Reading ➔

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Thanks to Sony Music Malaysia’s Twitter‏ now we can enjoy photos from the set of “Dusk Till Dawn” music video. You can check them out in our gallery:

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