Tag Archives: fashion

Slate: Hillary Dresses Like A Lesbian

A Slate piece today aims to “decode” Hillary Clinton’s fashion sense. Vanessa Urguhart writes: Hillary Clinton’s sense of style has been criticized for as long as she has been on the national political scene. One of the uglier forms this mockery has taken, most often in barbed private jokes and comments but occasionally openly by anti-gay activists, has been the …

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NYC Installs Stiletto-Friendly Subway Grates

Mashable mocks: New York city’s MTA (Mass Transit Authority) fields complaints ranging from subway cleanliness, vermin infestation, train frequency and safety, among other demands. But the city’s leader in public transportation has decided to tackle the really serious stuff: broken shoes. Answering the prayers of stiletto-wearers everywhere, the MTA announced plans Tuesday to install “high-heel friendly” grates on some sidewalks. …

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TRAILER: Zoolander 2

Rolling Stone recaps: In the new trailer, Stiller and Wilson, now older and struggling to come to grips with a fashion world that has passed them by, are recruited by Interpol agent Penelope Cruz to help discover who is trying to kill the world’s most beautiful people. “She’s hot,” Wilson says of Cruz. “I trust her.” Among the beautiful people …

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100 Years Of Men’s Hairstyles [VIDEO]

Somehow I avoided all of these looks during the era in which I had hair.

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Lady Gaga – I Want Your Love

With an assist from Nile Rodgers, Lady Gaga has covered the 1979 Chic classic as a promotion of Tom Ford’s latest line. Rolling Stone reports: In the Nick Knight-directed video to accompany the Chic cover, models dance down the runway like it was a Soul Train dance line, with Gaga herself showing up to showcase some of Ford’s skimpier designs. …

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CANADA: Gay Talk Show Host Christopher Hyndman Found Dead In Toronto Alley

CBC News reports: The body of Christopher Hyndman, co-host of the afternoon talk show Steven & Chris on CBC-TV, was found in an alleyway in Toronto’s east end Monday night, police confirm. “It is with profound sadness that we share the news Christopher Hyndman died,” said the public broadcaster in a memo distributed to staff Tuesday afternoon. “We extend our …

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TEASER: Zoolander 2

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Calvin Klein Campaign Gets Homo Sexty

Via WWD: Calvin Klein is betting on sexting and Tinder to help fuel the next iteration of its #mycalvins campaign. The predominantly digital program will span 27 markets that will include nontraditional outdoor media, such as large-format static LED screens and street furniture in key global cities like Bangkok, Thailand and São Paulo. The lead image – a same-sex embrace …

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100 Years Of Fashion In Three Minutes

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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INDIA: Fashion Ad Stars Lesbian Couple

Ad Week reports: An Indian clothing company is out with an ad that news reports are billing as the socially conservative country’s first to feature a lesbian couple. Anouk and Ogilvy & Mather Bangalore created the spot, in which the couple get ready to meet—and, the ad suggests, come out to—the parents of one of the women. Three and a …

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Converse Joins The Pride Parade

Yesterday it was Adidas and today it’s Converse that steps out with a pride-related shoe line. The Converse Pride Collection is honored to join the LGBT movement. Any crusade that hits the streets as loud and passionate as this one definitely needs sneakers to fit the occasion. We happily abide. The Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Pride hi-tops are adorned …

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AFA Cheers Newly “Family Friendly” A&F

Via press release from the AFA: Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has been well known for using highly sexualized marketing techniques to lure young people into its stores…but that’s all changed now that the company has ousted former CEO Michael Jefferies. After 13 years of AFA’s campaigning against A&F’s trashy catalogs, shirtless models and pornographic ads, the company has shed the …

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Iran Bans “Homosexual Hairstyles”

Via the Guardian: “Homosexual” and “devil worshipping” hairstyles have been banned in Iran, alongside tattoos, sunbed treatments and plucked eyebrows for men, which are all deemed un-Islamic. The move – aimed at spiky cuts – follows a trend where, each summer, Iranian authorities get tough on men and women sporting clothing or hairdos seen as imitations of western lifestyles. In …

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HomoQuotable – Giorgio Armani

“A homosexual man is a man 100%. He does not need to dress homosexual. When homosexuality is exhibited to the extreme – to say, ‘Ah, you know I’m homosexual,’ – that has nothing to do with me. A man has to be a man. I don’t like muscle boy. Not too much gym. I like somebody healthy, somebody solid, who …

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Nearly One Million Apple Watches Sold

And that was just on the first day. Via USA Today: Nearly 1 million people placed an order for an Apple Watch on the first day it was available, with most going for the cheapest model, a shopping research firm estimated. Slice Intelligence said e-receipt data from 9,080 online shoppers indicate 957,000 people in the U.S. pre-ordered the smartwatch on …

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Levi Strauss & Gap Denounce Indiana

From a joint statement posted last night to the corporate blog of the Gap: Today Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co. are calling on retail and apparel companies, and other businesses, to join us in speaking out against legalized discrimination. Both of our companies have a long history of standing up for equal rights and equal opportunity for all. …

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Fran Lebowitz On Drag Queens & Fashion

“The extreme, exaggerated femininity is, for most people, not so great a look. Except for drag queens, because that’s what drag queens do. I mean, I always thought it would be much wittier for drag queens to dress in this very drab way. You know, the yoga pants? Well, what if drag queens just really let themselves go, pretending not …

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Christian Site Launches Pro-D&G Petition

From LifeSiteNews: A host of performers, led by Elton John, have called for a boycott of the Italian designers for “lining up with the Pope and the far-Right in their support for legal discrimination.” Elton John and David Furnish, his “husband,” have two IVF children from a surrogate mother in the United States. Unfortunately this is just the latest example …

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BRITAIN: Activists Protest Outside Dolce And Gabbana’s Flagship London Store

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Bill Donohue On Dolce & Gabbana

“The open-minded ones in New York and Hollywood are having hissy fits over a quip made by Dolce about the kinds of kids their gay friends are raising. Elton John, who was engaged to a woman in the 1960s, married another gal in the 1980s, and then finally settled down with his boyfriend, is furious with Dolce. That’s because Sir …

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