Spain definitely loves some ingenious androgyny. Hercules, the country's premiere men's fashion magazine and Vogue Spain feature top model Iris Strubegger for their December issues sporting a face that could launch a thousand eyebrows: Is it a she or a he?
Amusingly enough, Vogue which obviously a woman's magazine features Iris with a fresh, clean, make-up less face, sporting a sleek pompadour which highlights her to die for angular, perfectly chiseled face. Very manly, very masculine. On the other hand Hercules, which is a men's magazine features her in a more twisted way--as a woman looking like a man who looks like a woman. Makes sense? You decide for yourself. Looking closely at the photograph, you could even see the hair on her arms which made me think it was actually a male model on the cover!
Hercules is a biannual luxury fashion and style magazine for men. The publication is bilingual with almost 220 pages of top class brands, models and photographers in the planet.
In this issue of the said mag, they feature Balmain's Creative Director Christophe Decarnin, Adam Kimmel and Oscar De La Renta among others. They also pay tribute to the glory days of romantic Hollywood, cowboys and boys in camp (boyscouts camping I mean.). As expected in a men's fashion mag, you can find a lot of exceptionally beautiful young men in their underwear, a lot of skin, a lot of hair (in all parts you can imagine) and disappointly enough, a lot of black and white picture.
Don't get me wrong. I am an Avedon fan and I love black and white photographs especially when they are use sparingly in a magazine. However, sometimes when it gets too dark to actually see details of a piece of the clothing or too dark to visualise the total look of the image, a good subject goes to waste. I think sometime colors work for some pieces where black and white couldn't do justice at all.
The magazine costs six euros but it is definitely worth it. Here's a simple slide photo presentation to kick start your Monday.
As for the Vogue issue, let's save that for another entry.
That one I assure you is much more colorful than Hercules.
man behind Lady Gaga's outfit when she appeared on German TV
program "Wetten Das" has once again blurred the boundary of sexuality
in fashion with his excruciatingly beautiful collection called
"Mourning for Orlando".
Photo: Lady Gaga wearing Orschel-Read Couture trousers in a
German TV program.
Orschel-Read's "Mourning" collection is a circus of fun, creativity
and pure talent. His tailoring is exquisite, the details are meticulous
and the use of different materials including fur, leather and everything in
between is just pure genius.
I Particularly love these headress/hats which, for some reason make me associate them with Japan and the whole Geisha culture. No, it's not the whitewashed faced models but the hats seem like what a geisha wig would look like on a bad day, or worst, a week without a shower.
Besos!
photos: Lady Gaga (google images), Orschel-Read couture from the designer's website, magazine photo owned by marbellastyle.
Confused of someone's sexuality? Gaydar not working? Well, the next time a fag hag tells you someone is gay because she can "smell" him, you can immediately confirm her effervescent suspicion: If he smells like EAU MO, he definitely is gay!
Introducing the EAU MO (try to pronounce it the gay way : (ho-mo) eau de toilette pour gay. Yes, the only perfume that is out of the closet, marketing specifically to the gay male market.
With base notes of Cedar, Amber, Musk and Vanilla (hmmm...), it "smells like the spirit of youth".
Now you know the perfect Christmas gift you can give your GBFF (gay best friend forever). EAUMO is only available online and comes in two sizes (I thought there were more than that...) and comes in a slick bottle with the color scheme of HOT Magazine---electric pink and black.
The gorgeous muscled mary in the picture, sold separately.
We know that the 80's is as current again as Susan Boyle but I never thought it can step up to another level like using an iconic remnant of this era as fashion accoutrement--cassette tapes.
And the cassette trend is becoming fiercer. Introducing Alyce Santoro's Sonic Fabric collection. Yes!--Clothes, scarves and neckties all made from actual cassette tapes. Genuis isn't it. Now you can literally wear your favorite 80's idols. All your Duran Durans, Eurythmics and Spandau Ballets in blue, gray, orange and other different colours. How cool is that?
That's not all. It comes with some interesting tidbits as well. The Sonic Fabric necktie for example is "recorded with an intricate collage of sound prior to weaving" and "are intended to emit good vibes into the vicinity of the wearer".
Wow. I want some Debbie Gibson (Electric Youth) necktie for some good vibrations, indeed.
All products are made in the US and available online at http://www.sonicfabric.com/ . Yes, you can hum your Total Eclipse of the Heart without annoying some store clerk this time.
Described as Karl Lagerfeld's new muse, Daul modelled for top brands such as Chanel, Dries Van Noten and Lagerfeld.
Daul also wrote an invitation only blog called I like to Fork Myself (http://iliketoforkmyself.blogspot.com/) where she chronicled her poignant and sad life as a supermodel.
Yes it must be lonely at the top. Girls, be careful what you wish for. You can a supermodel at 15 and retire at 20 just when you begin to have cellulites like Gemma Ward or go on be crazy and iconic as Naomi Campbell.
There are only two things in the world that would wake me up from a long blogging hibernation: Food and Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga's Bad Romance literally wakes me up everyday as I made it my cellphone alarm while the new M&S is the subject of my new indulgence after more than five years of not seeing even a single chocolate wrapper from the brand since I moved here in Spain.
When news broke out that M&S was opening it's first store in Spain (the company pulled out it's Madrid branch eight years ago. Why? Don't know, don't care) in Marbella's La Canada shopping Centre, I was counting down the days to have a taste of those beautiful chocolates---the only thing I could buy at that time in Manila when I was still in university. Of course, in those days, the euro-peso exchange was horrible and everything in the store was just so expensive!
Fast forward to ten years later, M&S is here within reach and of course, I didn't waste time. The second day it opened, I rushed to the store and thanks be to God, I was not disappointed. From the door I walked for the kill straight to the food section. Yes, there is a small but decent food section where I was greeted with the sweetest things in the world:
As you see , I only have consumed the toffee meringue and the cookies. I don't plan to have a heart attack at 30 years old with these sinful things washed down by a can of Coke Light, thank you very much. The toffee and pecan meringue is just heavenly, it melts in your mouth like foam and the bits of pecan nuts balance out the softness and sweetness of the whole thing and make you want to have more, more, and more. Hmmm...
The cookies are exceptionally amazing too. Crunchy but the chocolates inside are a little chewy making it more satisfying to the palate.
Now, having moved recently to a new apartment, I thought it is not fair to just have a sweet fix but I'm also gonna buy some house stuff. Look what I ended up with:
Grapefruit and ginger scented room spray
Magnolia scented foaming bath essence
Still haven't used the gel but the room fragrance is just but amazing. It literally makes your room smell....expensive! Yes, I know that's not exactly an adjective for any kind of smell but that's exactly how I smelt mine after a couple of sprays.
Imagine JLo in her 100 square meter bedroom surrounded with expensive 1000-thread sheets, designer curtains all in white...bouquets of magnolias everywhere...everything glowing in white...and yes, minus her skeletor husband: that's how I imagined I were and how my bedroom smelled. Gee...
I didn't check out the clothes section as I never was keen with their clothing line anyways. I've seen a lot of cute Christmas displays and gift ideas though and might come back for the bathrobe (100 % egyptian cotton, if I saw it correctly) when I got some hard earned disposable cash to ...well, dispose.
Come on people, I paid for food. It's not like I bought a gram of some white stuff that makes this planet crazy. I nourished myself and enjoyed it and money went to a good cause---myself. And besides, M&S just invested 3 million euros for this store so I was just trying to help them get it back in my own sweet little ways.
Now if you'll excuse me, I still have to try out my magnolia scented bubble bath.
Starting today you can download the Gucci fashion application on the App Store. It’s not your usual fashion app—in fact, Frida Giannini worked directly with Mark Ronson to create several of the app’s coolest features like Gucci Beats (where you can mix your own music tracks and share with friends) and personal playlists by Frida and Mark.
The App also has a music stream channel, the Gucci Little Black Book city guide, along with all the latest fashion shows, look books and news from Gucci.
Sounds fun. I suggest they do a Frida Gianini boyfriend jacket inspired mobile casing as well. In different colors. That would sell like hotcake, I'm sure.
This might be a little late news but my virtual girlfriend, Jenia Molnar from the NY press office of Armani sent me some juicy goss a couple of weeks ago that almost made me choke on my Sangria---Cristiano Ronaldo to be the next bulge face of Armani underwear and Armani jeans !
We'll see the Real Madrid player's best bits in Armani's Spring/Summer 2010 campaign in the tradition of the most tasteful and provocative ads for the brand by the one and only David Beckham.
I say Armani did the best decision to chose Cristiano after David. Afterall, an excellent brand like Armani deserves nothing but an excellent image to represent them.
What happens now to Mr. Beckham? Well, according to my favorite gossip magazine, HOT Marbella (lol), Mr. Beckham is honing his voice, making it sound deeper for future cinematic and television projects. He knows that he is perfect in everything aside from that mickey mouse voice so he is taking voice lessons / coachings to develop a a husky baritone sound.
So, move over David. Here comes Cristiano to make a lady's day. We expect giant billboards, tv spot, and lots and lots of magazine spread with the Portugese hunk...errr..spreading his legs.
We will all be waiting, right chicas?
Speaking of waiting. Jenia girlfriend...I'm still waiting for my armani undie dahlin´. black. size m. Lol!!!
Gosh...it's hard playing Perez Hilton for a blog post. I need to calm down.
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