Loving the pictures of 28-year-old Rafael Leite by Cristiano Madureira featured in this month's The Boy, especially the ones in white boxers.
I have uploaded the members-only pictures from Rafael's spread for The Boy in a photo album for those of you who do not reside in Brazil, and have no access to all the galleries. The photo album will be up for a limited time only.
PHOTO ALBUM: Rafael Leite for The Boy (NSFW)
Clockwise from top left: Brown leather tote by Prada. Gray silk pocket square with geometric print by Louis Vuitton. Brown and black patent leather lace-up shoes by Christian Louboutin for 3.1 Philip Lim. Tortoiseshell optical glasses by Moscot. Alzer monogram trunk by Louis Vuitton. Brown umbrella with braided leather handle by Bottega Veneta. Lying panther jewelry box by Cartier. Dominoes and playing cards with leather cases by Penhaligon’s. Brown felt hat by Yohji Yamamoto. Tan leather and cashmere gloves by Lanvin. Shagreen box by Dunhill. Infusion d’Homme by Prada. White button-down shirt by Dior Homme. Gray tweed suit by Jil Sander. Black lace-up demi-boots by Marc Jacobs.
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Frank Muytjens, J.Crew's head of men's design, has been signing free agents like a Yankees GM (c.f. Red Wing, Sperry, Mackintosh, Selima Optique, Timex, Thomas Mason). After meeting up with Rogues Gallery's Alex Carleton at a recent fashion week, Muytjens made the Portland, Maine-based nautical fetishists his latest franchise player, inking a deal to sell a special line of T-shirts and bags at J.Crew's Liquor Store. The collection debuts today in the form of three T-shirts (the bags, along with three additional tee designs, are coming shortly). The look and fabric are all Rogues—Muytjens curated rather than created the graphics, and the shirts are made from Rogues' usual beautifully beaten-down vintage tee stock—but the Maine line's sometimes wonky fit has been standardized (J.Crew sent its fit blocks up to Portland just to make sure) and gently streamlined for fewer surprises. Even better—and unlike a typical Yankees acquisition—you don't have to have Steinbrenner's deep pockets to afford them.
$48, available today at larger J.Crew stores and September 17 at jcrew.com
COREY SEYMOUR
Courtesy of J.Crew
10:34 AM, September 04, 2009
Catching a whiff of cool with Justin Timberlake.
By Joshua David Stein
Recently, Justin Timberlake was in New York City to film Saturday Night Live, but he found the time to grant a few moments to journalists in his capacity as the new face of Givenchy’s cologne, Play. The process of interviewing Timberlake has more twists and turns than a Sue Grafton novel (J Is for Justin?), so I was sworn to secrecy about his location which, it turned out, was on an empty floor of a Chelsea condo building. Upon entering the uninhabited penthouse I was asked to watch a documentary about the making of the film shoot for the scent’s ad campaign. After the doc, I was allowed into the antechamber, one room closer to the man himself, where I watched another documentary, this one about the actual fragrance. Lost in the discourse of the citrus-y high notes of Play, I was startled to feel a gentle tap on my shoulder. “It’s your turn,” said a clipboarded PR woman. I followed her through a partition and then, just like that, I had gained an audience with Mr. Timberlake. After exchanging pleasantries, we quickly got down to business.
Another Common Project
As the old saying goes, you can judge a man by the company he keeps. If that's the case, high marks for Common Projects' Peter Poopat and Flavio Girolami, who have been collaborating with some of menswear's best and brightest of late: Moscot, on a seriously covetable set of shades; Patrik Ervell, for runway-only shoes (a few pairs of which aren't so runway-only); and now, United Bamboo, for two limited-edition low-top styles in fall-ready gray and brown plaid wool. Given this latest in a string of successes, maybe we'd better turn things around and judge the other guys by the Common Projects company they keep—or just fall back on another old saying instead: Everybody wins.
Price not yet announced, available in September exclusively at unitedbamboo.com; commonprojects.com
MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Photos: Courtesy of Common Projects and United Bamboo
3:32 PM, August 31, 2009
Whether you love to splash in the surf or amuse yourself by the pool there is something about water that brings out our playful side. What is it that we find so fun? Is it the water sports (not those water sports), lying in the sun or the idea of getting away from the stress of life for awhile? Or, could it possibly be all the hot half-naked guys running around in skimpy swimsuits? Thought so!
So to get ready for summer we want to find out just what you'll be wearing when you hit the pool, beach or whatever out of the way swimming hole you found.
Better yet SHOW US!
Lifestyle: Getting Wet With The Boys
Photo: Scott Schuman
Jon Solin, 25
bioengineering-firm CEO
Rethink Those Board Shorts, Man! Buy ‘Em Short but Not Tight
Surf trunks haven’t disappeared, they’ve
simply been brought up to date. While certain characteristics have never changed—you should still look for flat-front trunks with a Velcro fly and a lace tie—the cut is now more Dr. J and less Dwayne Wade.
HOW TO BUY A SWIMSUIT: A GQ PRIMER
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A man walks past. He is impeccably dressed, well-groomed, and confidently sports a man purse, or murse, in a way that is enviable, and although his slacks cover them, you feel certain his socks are argyle. But wait… there is also a woman on his arm. You aren’t sure, it could be his intoxicating aftershave causing you not to think clearly, but he may just be the epitome of the VH-1 Pop Culture Dictionary term “Metrosexual”. That is, he is heterosexual, but spends more time on his appearance than most monks spend in prayer.
The term was first seen in print in Mark Simpson’s 1994 article, “Here Comes the Mirror Men” published in The Independent. He explains, “Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in the city (because that’s where all the best shops are), is perhaps the most promising consumer market of the decade… he’s everywhere and he’s going shopping.”
AP Photo/ Richard Drew
Simpson went on to write numerous articles on his coined term, and in one of them, “Becks the Virus”, he named David Beckham the poster boy for metrosexuality.
Pop culture dictionary term #1: metrosexual
In June I linked to some shots of Jamie Dornan in the new Calvin Klein Jeans campaign. He's now taken them off for Calvin Klein underwear's F/W campaign, shot by Steven Klein. One more shot plus a "making of" video, AFTER THE JUMP...
(via design scene)
Posted 8:20 PM EST by Andy Towle in Fashion Men
Mark Simpson, the man credited with coining the term “metrosexual,” was the first to hail David Beckham as the ultimate metrosexual. He is not the first athlete to enhance his star status by playing the glamour card, but he is quite possibly the best. A bronze statue in Thailand is testament to his iconic powers--as is the crazed fan who reportedly licked every toilet seat she could access in a fashionable hotel in hopes of tasting one he had used.
Chances are pretty good that, when you think of people who make a career out of modeling, you probably think about someone who dons beautiful, expensive clothing and struts down the runways in Milan, Italy.
You probably don’t think about a person who is so thin that they look emancipated, that only exercises as a way to shed the couple of calories that they ate during the day. While the idea of becoming a model appeals to you, the lifestyle doesn’t.
Instead of starting a career as a fashion model, maybe you should consider becoming a fitness model.
What You Should Know About Becoming a Fitness Model
by snicks
Like many people, I've been worried that Project Runway would lose the certain "je ne sais gay" that it enjoyed on Bravo when it made the move to Lifetime (and its recent promos haven't helped assuage my fears.)
But they're certainly taking a step in the right direction with the announcement of this year's designers. Of the sixteen new contestants, eight are men, six of whom are out. Well, five of the guys are out, and one describes his sexuality as "in flux".
Look below for pics and profiles of the five out gay designers (and the "in flux" designer Malvin) and be sure and catch Project Runway when it debuts on Lifetime on Thursday, August 20th at 10PM ET.
The first issue of AXM Digital Magazine is ready to read right here, and it’s completely free. Skins star Luke Pasqualino takes to the cover to talk drugs and gay characters, while hot young Brit actor in Hollywood, Augustus Prew, reveals the sordid secrets of Bel Air pool parties. You’ll also get our version of the truth that is men’s trends for Spring-Summer 09, and intrude on the confessions of two hot Berlin lovers who aren’t famous at all. More! There’s a fit boy in Paris pulling his chav trackies down plus a fashion story that’s a bit dark.
To start flicking through AXM Digital 01 click the front cover on the right. Or just click here.
European athletes continue to give us plenty to look at. The latest are some elite Italian swimmers who are the featured models for a new Dolce & Gabbana underwear campaign.
Hat tip to QueerClick.
Outsports
Is your guy not that into fashion and still wearing slinky knits and leather jackets? A few gold chains here and there? Well, now's your chance to give the man in your life a special style update. June is definitely a "man's month" — full of graduations, Father's Day, weddings, Men's Health Week and the official start of the summer season. So, what's a guy to do (or wear)?
Photographer Jon Malinowski had been working with the R&L Models very regularly, one of the top fitness models agencies.
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Last year we wrote about Romain Barras, a French decathlete, and how he loved to be viewed as beautiful by gay men. “It is lucky to have articles [about me] on the gay websites … I found it to be super flattering on these sites to be surrounded by very beautiful guys. I always had affinities with the gay community. This is a world which does not shock me.”
He even joked about and innuendo to his endowment.
“I like the frankness and gay humor, for example, the photo where one said that I have a pole as big as this,” he said in reference to a photo caption on a blog. The blogger asked if his pole was that big. “No, no, it is bigger,” Barras said laughing.
Radoslav Vanko keeps DNA white-hot!
In spite of winter approaching down under, Aussie gay magazine DNA is sure to remain white-hot if it keeps cranking out swimwear edits of this caliber. 26-year-old Slovak Radoslav Vanko (301 Models, Miami) is starring in Salute to the Sun, shot by David Vance. The banana is so not Vance-ish that we’ll have to assume that Rado was really hungry.
Radoslav Vanko keeps DNA white-hot
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