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+ Gay
Play's Just Super
Daily Report - Heidi Klum and Gisele Bundchen show
they are in touch with the latest (London) fashion - lesbian chic.
+ Supermodeling:
The myth, the reality
USA Today - Alek Wek break down the top model myths
+ Here's
the Skinny
Chicago Sun-Times - Sports Illustrated's people are
saying there was no plan to include Heidi Klum in this year's swimsuit
issue. Yet, they still love her. On the other hand, Heidi Klum reportedly
nixed offers to be in SI, because she was miffed about what happened
last year. Sports Illustrated sold photos from that shoot to the
European editions of Playboy.
(I can see why Heidi would be mad over that.
Unfortunely, she has to be careful not to bite the hand that feeds
her. She's not getting any younger. There's plenty of models with
breasts. I doubt most guys noticed her not in it. She is replaceable.
Heidi's honour is stuck between a rock and a hard place, on this
one. And please! - Don't write in to me asking: Where is this naked
SI model Playboy. I don't know. If someone does.. feel free to let
me know. Then, I would know and could say.)
+ Babe
boycott
Pagesix - Heidi Klum refused to do this year's Sports
Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
+ A
model apology
TheAge - Caprice apologised after she was
photographed wearing a skirt bearing a pro-drugs slogan, "I
love cocaine", in Maxim magazine.
(Why is the model made to apologize!? I can
understand if she was caught snorting. She's a model - that's what
she does. She models clothes!)
+ NYC
edict: smiles, everyone!
National Post - At New York's fashion week, fantasy
reigns
+ New
Year, New Face
Lucire - Malin Gudmundsson, billed by some as Sweden's
Jennifer Lopez.
("Don't be fooled by the furniture that
I got.
I'm still, I'm still Malin from the block.
Used to have little IKEA, now I have a lot.
No matter where I go, I know where I came from:
from Stockholm!" [Yeah, that has a good ring to it..]
The Swedish Jennifer Lopez?? To
those interested, the Brazilian Britney Spears posed for Playboy,
over there.)
+ Montréal
Fashion Week (Canada)
Lucire - This article is a bit old, but I meant to
mention it (my Canadian content for the week
;-) )
+ Emerging
Montreal
Lucire - Question: what makes Montréal fashion
different?
(I still say, if Canada wants to put itself
on the fashion map. It HAS to abdandon old Canada cities, like Montreal
and Toronto. Montreal is quickly getting replaced by a city like
Calgary or Edmonton, and was past by long ago by Vancouver. It does
have its rich history, which is something new Canada cities don't
have have. They're not old enough yet. 1920s is considered old in
them, compared to centeries ago for Montreal.
Whatever niche Montreal had 40 years
ago was left behind back then. The most it seems to be now is a
stepping stone city for fashion. No one is going to take a city
like that seriously. Maybe, but I doubt. Toronto replaced Montreal
as Canada's fashion city anyways. Normally a good choice, except..
Montreal refuses to except it's not Canada's fashion city anymore.
Also, Toronto is just too close to another well known fashion city.
A place called, New York City.
At least Vancouver is far enough
away from NYC. It gives a fashion community opertunities to go south
into Los Angeles, and maybe through LA onto Mexico and Latin America.
Also, Vancouver is also considered a large Asian city now. It gives
openings to prospects in Asia - Taiwan, China, Japan. Places many
Canadian models get there work.
Why not use this as a bridge for
other fashion interests, like stylists, photographers, designers,
make-up, and companies. If Vancouver were to need seed money to
get itself going.. Unlike Montreal, which requires tax dollars (corporate
welfare), or Toronto that gets corporation and government help.
It has a potential marks, er.. I mean allies in Alberta. You just
have to convince the Alberta oil to "dress up" a bit.
Convince it, that even if they are rich. They don't need to dress
middle class. Alberta also has allot of corporate head offices,
2nd to Toronto. Telus Fashion Week, anybody? And will someone who
makes good shoes, like Bally, please open a shop in Alberta!!! Dammit,
I hate Aldo shoes.
Cause seriously. How many decades
have to go by before a city like Montreal realizes it can't be considered
"emerging" anymore? Time to pull the plug on Montreal.
Toronto, good city. Good choice, but... worst location possible.
Vancouver, best and only hope for Canada to ever be on the same
map as London, Paris, Milan and NYC. But will politics from Montreal
and Toronto ever allow this?)
+ The
bottom line on gentlemen's shoes
National Post - Canadian finance ministers don a
new pair of shoes to deliver the budget. We can learn from their
mistakes
+ Bravo
to Offer Man-on-Man Fashion Action
Zap2It - Guide to "building a better straight
man," "The Queer Eye" will take heterosexual works-in-progress
and expose them to the expertise of gay consultants.
(I know we live in a more enlighten era and
all. Seriously, who the hell thought THIS would be a good idea??
5 Gay men give straight men advice in fashion?
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but
isn't fashion sold to us under the marketing of: Building confidence
in yourself, through clothes, and/or, attracting a date.
It's not straight men who you read
about having troubles "coming out" and telling the world
that they like girls. Straight guys have plenty of confidence, and
what would gay guys know about picking up girls? I don't think the
North American man wants to walk around with coloured hankies hanging
out of his back pockets. Sorry to disappoint Bravo and progressive
types everywhere. This isn't going to happen.
Straight men want to be straight
men, and they want to look it too. You don't suggest to a woman
that she should dress 'fat'. And you don't get suggest straight
guys need to dress more gay.
The smartest thing men's fashion
could do, is drop its wet dream fantasies of this, and just have
one men's collection. One geared for straight men. If some gays
or even straight men want to look "flashier". They can
accessorize!)
+ The
Makings Of A Fashion Designer
Askmen - Tom Ford
(Maybe next year Gucci will suggest men should
get in touch with their "man side" better and get themselves
a Brazilian bikini wax. *brrr*...)
+ Full
frontal fashion
TheAge - Ads showing explicit male nudes in hope to shock (or is
it eye candy for designers?)
(Oh geez.. its started... I hate it when people,
or in this case, fashion, has nothing interesting to say. So it's
either falling back to the latest social activist/Marxist praising
thing of the moment, or in this case - Offending the people you're
trying to get the attention of. I guess they have nothing to show,
so have to cover this up somehow. Either let what they have to show
speak for itself, or fire everyone and start again. No point in
being nostalgic for 1996 anymore.)
+ Off
the catwalk
TheAge - Showgoers were puzzled by the sheer numbers of tits
on display at London Fashion Week's first bunch of shows
(Eye candy for the lady designers? Or is this how fashion works
now: Women fashion is for straight men. Men fashion is for gay men.
But.. it's ALL mostly marketed toward women. - Though as a straight
man, I have no complaints about this show of "freedom, liberty
and self-confidence", by the models at London fashion week.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it ;-)
But seriously. Eye candy in
women fashion is a good way to get guys, like the boy friends and
husbands, interested in it all. Who in the end seems to pay for
all this. I'll tell you - Men do. So I won't be too hard on fashion
for this trend. But they should be careful not to over do it. Not
only because it risks alienating theit target customers, women.
But men will get bored from it, "Seen it already", and
move on to the next thing that grabs their attention. Throwing out
the latest 17 year old girl naked isn't going to always work.)
+ Whoops,
there goes my top!
Thisislondon - "Freedom. Liberty. And self-confidence!"
(A model at the Pasarela Cibeles show was quick to hide her modesty
as her skimpy David Delfin outfit fell apart while parading on the
catwalk.)
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Where's
been Fashist!?
The Forum is
going strong. The main site is still here.
Where's
been the Updates?
A-Ha! You noticed..
It's a combination of lack of time (Busy with my day job), rest
(Even I need a break), and trying to decide on a couple ideas for
this site (Ch-ch-changes.. Well, maybe?).
Will
the Updates start again?
Of course!
Till then, check the Forums.
You
said that before!
I said that,
yes. But my day job didn't (*grumble*..)
When??
It'd be nice
before this month is done. March seems more likely though. I really
want to look into re-designing this site (funny, since I never had
the chance to finish the archives and other areas of this site).
So
March?
Maybe. Maybe
before, but I do realize I have to get back at doing the Updates.
Hey, wouldn't it be something if Updates started up again, next
week even?
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