Channing Tatum Strips Down to a Speedo, Shares How Zoë Kravitz Influenced His Style

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Channing Tatum from turning up the heat. As the cover star of ’s newly unveiled spring/summer issue, the  actor bared almost all as he stripped down to a Speedo poolside and, in one shot, just a sweater wrapped around his waist.

While Tatum channeled his modeling days for the sexy shoot, he opened up about how his own personal style has evolved, including with the help of his girlfriend, Zoë Kravitz. «It has been a journey,» he told former  co-star, Jonah Hill, who interviewed him for the issue. «I grew up in the South, and you don’t wear anything but like, white t-shirts and chains everywhere.

I had a year I called, 'the year of the fresh white tee.' [Then] I started getting seen as a model, and I went so deep into the highest fashion world that you possibly can.

I was living in New York and [there], you find your own style,» he recalled. «When I moved to L.A., dressing became a bit of a chore, it was just another suit for another talk show.»The now-41-year-old star professed he «just got over it.» «I stopped acting for a while, life changed, and I really wanted to pay attention and figure out who I was—that was like four years ago,» he recalled. «Look, I went on a little bit of a journey trying to do Balenciaga and all this s**t.