Tag Archives: fashion

Fashion Bears

From the enigmatic designer Walther van Beirendonck, here’s what he thinks fashion-forward bears should be wearing in the spring season. The line is called Wonderfu. Not wonderful. The name Beirendonck always sounds like the title of a German fetish film to me. (Via JMG reader Justin)

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“Heavage”

A silly story in the Wall Street Journal announces that baring one’s chest hair with a plunging neckline, a phenomenon mostly associated with the gold-chain laden disco era, is apparently back. The paper calls the fad “heavage.” SRSLY. Vik Mohindra, a 27-year-old graduate student from Toronto, confesses that his guy friends sometimes tease him about his heavage. “I would not …

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Because They Really Aren’t

At last night’s marriage rally in Times Square, a family of tourists passed by the protesters’ pen with the mother shaking her head in disapproval at the activists. That prompted a trio of protesting women to alter their chant. “Leggings on are not pants! Leggings are not pants!” I love my people.

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Mustache Sexiness Timeline

I guess I’m presently rocking the “ironic” stache, but that’s only because I accidentally left the guard off the clippers while trimming my beard. (Via – The Daily What)

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Winkers

JMG reader Chris alerted me to the glory that is Winkers, which you can purchase for $159-$579, depending on the design. Judging by the models used in the below promo clip, you’ve got to have some serious junk in the trunk to get the effect. On me, they would just be Starers. The music kills me.

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In Which I’m Declared Fashionable

According to the New York Times, men with guts are suddenly in fashion. Only they’re no longer “beer bellies” or a “paunch,” they’re called a “Ralph Kramden.” Too pronounced to be blamed on the slouchy cut of a T-shirt, too modest in size to be termed a proper beer gut, developed too young to come under the heading of a …

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Men With Baggage

Yesterday the NY Daily News ran a photo essay titled Murses & The Dudes Who Dig Them, capturing various men with their man-bags around Manhattan. Some of the guys are total fashion victims, bragging about their $2000 designer murses which they must update every season. Oy vey. When I first got to NYC, I was informed that I too would …

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Drive-By Barneys

Barney’s, who is arguably Gotham’s most famed fancy clothier, hurriedly removed their latest window displays after customers and passers-by objected to scenes depicting female mannequins being strafed by bullets. Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys, said the displays were installed while he was away overseeing advertising shoots and that he had ordered them dismantled. They were taken down shortly after …

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Bear Fashion

Head over to Bearotic for a rundown of Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck’s latest bear fashion show. I’m not too crazy about some of the looks, especially the muumuu/house dress line, but the models are worth a gander. The link is possibly NSFW. Love the designer’s last name. (Tipped by JMG reader Matt)

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The Key To Femininity

At Wednesday’s blogging panel at the NYC LGBT Community Center, gay blogging pioneer Bradford Shellhammer happened to have a copy of 1965’s Always Ask A Man: Arlene Dahl’s Key To Femininity, a book he says he frequently seeks on Ebay to give to friends. You may remember the five-times married Dahl (who is Lorenza Lamas’ mother) from such bad ’50s …

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Billy Ray Leatherman

NYC Eagle, Sunday 9PM So I’m standing there at the bar being chatted up by a pleasant leather dude who was rocking the most ferocious mullet seen since Journey’s last world tour. When he turned to order a drink, a friend of mine sidled up to whisper, “Don’t break his heart. His achy-breaky heart.” I love my people.

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Aretha’s Big Hat, Part 3

To the left, our own Dr. Jeff models Aretha Franklin’s now-famous inauguration hat, which has caused a deluge of inquiries for its maker. The calls began to flood Luke Song’s hat shop not long after Aretha Franklin finished belting out “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. Franklin, who wore a gray felt custom-designed hat from Mr. …

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More On Aretha’s Hat

It cracked me up yesterday to watch my post about Aretha’s hat become one of the most searched items in almost five years on writing JMG. Aside from zillions of Google hits, the post was top ranked over on BuzzFeed’s viral videos chart, where readers went into a photoshopping frenzy. My favorites are my SF pal Ggreg Taylor’s creation below …

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Go Gotti

No less than the Wall Street Journal says it’s OK to pop your collar. In fact, they say it isn’t even all that faggoty. From “fashion reporter” Teri Agins: [T]here’s nothing foppish about turning up the collar on leather jackets, coats and some shirts. Check yourself out in the mirror from all angles to experiment with ways to pop up …

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The Return Of Chest Hair

Today the Daily Beast takes note of Hollywood’s rediscovered love of hairy chests, something that happened in popular gay male culture at least a decade ago. Clive Owen, the brooding, British Sin City hunk (and my number one personal distraction) has unabashedly displayed his sexily untamed man fur. Aussie Hugh Jackman (the newly anointed Oscar host and People‘s latest “Sexiest …

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Urban Outfitters Pulls Marriage T-Shirts

New York Magazine reports that Urban Outfitters suddenly pulled their line of t-shirts that support marriage equality, possibly because the company’s owner is an anti-gay right-wing tool who gives generously to GOP candidates and causes. A buyer cited the reason as “too much bad press” to Littman [the shirt’s creator], though the designer couldn’t find more than one blog entry …

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Six-Pack Fakery

A new men’s “compression undergarment” that some are calling the “Spanx for men” is supposed to give the illusion that you’ve got a six-pack. From a product review in the Times UK: Every so often, something totally “lady” from the world of women’s fashion and beauty gets repackaged, dyed navy and sold to men. In this instance, it’s the turn …

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The Bro Or The Manziere?

Gizmodo dug up this Japanese ad for a product designed for those with flopping moobs. But, uh, these things look a teensy bit delicate and feminine and seem more for cross-dressers than your average active bear. (Via – Towleroad)

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Obama: Brothers, Stop Sagging!

Finally Barack Obama has addressed the critical issue of laws against baggy pants. In an interview with MTV’s Sway Calloway, Obama fielded a question from Eric, a Huntington Beach, Calif., man who referenced a town ordinance that tried to outlaw a street fashion trend in which young men wear their baggy pants down well below their underwear. Obama said such …

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Gay Marriage Ad Uses GAY Person!

Finally, an actual gay person appears in a Prop 8 ad. Tim Gunn: “I’ve never seen anything as unattractive as the content of Proposition 8. It’s simply wrong to take people’s rights away!” Nice, and no points off for getting the URL wrong.

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