Showing posts with label vogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vogue. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2009

himbo bimbo, when men became sluts

male models had a major breakthrough in the fashion scene fall 2009. they stormed the advertising business and fashion houses nailed each print ad with their daring, nude-oriented spreads. surprisingly, it has been sought by consumers and more and more advertising centered entirely on men without clothes or men with women's clothes. there has been a shift on how the male body should be [the hedi slimane days]. today, male models are regarded as man whores, skinny, tall and meaty [by meaty i mean muscles]. the fall 2009 ads were queued with controversial almost censored advertisements.















stella tennant with four models wearing manties [left] and scarlett johansson and david gandy in dolce and gabanna fall 2009 ad















lara stone in dsquared2 fall 2009 ad campaign series

















calvin klein fall 2009 with jamie dornan and eva mendes






















calvin klein jeans tv fall ad 2009






















ysl fall 2009 ad with christy turlington and andres velencoso

but himbo does not only connote men posing nude, it is sometimes regarded as men wearing female clothes. like what uncle karl is doing to his baptiste giabiconi recently.






















french vogue march 2009.






















italian vogue july 2009

Sunday, August 16, 2009

lady gaga is out!

lady gaga does a shoot for the newest out magazine. shot by ellen von unwerth, it is really one hell of lady gaga mania! it was one jaw-dropping experience as lady gaga does a one-of-a-kind-out-of-this-world photoshoot. props include of course, blood, um.. skeleton... a coffin, some fangs, slutty shoes, chains and plasters...

i so can remember the october 2008 issue of vogue italia. they had goth as an inspiration for one of their spreads. the magazine proved the stereotype about goth wrong by pouring out a lot of laces and gloves and balloons, grapes, and a whole lot of texture and textile.






















and here is 2008 flair mag's response... they themed it gothica, which had pale models and zombies. [can remember halle berry's gothika. lol]















so here is lady gaga's much awaited out mag spread. see it and go gaga!