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One of the things that gives us penis mag envy every time we hit the newsstands is the fact that they aren't afraid to search far and wide for people to whom to pose questions more existential than "Can u dispense a worthless platitude about finding a boyfriend suitable for 36-pt Helvetica pls?" Sometimes, of course, for all their efforts, magazines like GQ get…well…not much. Click the pic for some deep thoughts from Gisele, Michael Caine, and Bob Schoff, that guy who fell headfirst into the septic tank last Christmas Eve and lived to tell the magazine what it was like to literally be in a "world of shit." (His photo's there too.) Taken together, there's probably a coherent philosophy in there. Albeit a boring one.
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rag trade
We Couldn't Have Put It Better Ourselves, Agent Provocateur
- Prestige magazine has the "world exclusive" of the new Agent Provocateur campaign starring Kate Moss. Note the black models featured also in the shoot! They are slightly less prominent, but no worse fed. [Prestige HK]
- And look her! The notoriously tight-lipped Kate Moss granted an actual interview to the Guardian! Does she have anything to say for herself? "After a long pause," the story reveals..."Not really." [Guardian]
- More "authenticity" from the trailers of the upcoming Sex & The City movie: It was like being in [NY department stores] Bergdorf Goodman and Saks combined. There was an overwhelming amount of branded product...The characters were defined via their wardrobes and the products they used: Carrie, for example, was a creative, fashion-obsessed writer type, so she used an Apple Mac because of its design value and wore all these crazy clothes.... [FT]
- "China is about brand, brand, brand." [NYT]
- India "is a fast growing economy and with consumption so robust and with incomes rising, it's a fertile ground for the print media." And all the crap Vogue and GQ would like to sell to them! [Reuters]
dirt bag
Mariah Carey E-Mails Vogue Editor From Honeymoon
- [Mariah Carey] is very happy. I've spoken with her and she is superb. She is over the moon. I received an email from her [Monday] and she is so happy. She really sounds like someone on her honeymoon." — Andre Leon Talley. Talley also says the wedding happened so quickly he "didn't have the time to offer her any style tips!" Underminer. [People]
- Britney Spears' progress impressed the court yesterday. She will now get three days of supervised visitation a week; within a month she should get overnight visits. Stay the course, girl! [TMZ]
- Lindsay Lohan has another job! She'll star in Labor Pains, a comedy about a young woman who pretends to be pregnant to avoid being fired. Yay for her; boo for another damn knocked up movie. Is that all women are good for? [Page Six]
fashion victims
Marc Jacobs Isn't Crazy -- He Just Has Issues
"Why is there this division all of a sudden between people in support of me and people against me? How did this happen? I haven't done anything to anybody! I look at Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano—everybody has their shtick. And just because this wasn't my shtick two years ago, it's a problem."Marc Jacobs is upset. He is also really buff, debatably character-disordered, and, at present, unusually sober. He's practically a psychological case study: A lost little boy with an aching, damaged soul, living in the public eye. (With diamond studs in his ears, to boot.) At least, that's the angle Marie Claire executive editor Lucy Kaylin takes, as she profiles America's Most Important Fashion Designer in this month's issue of GQ. More »
the whipping point
Is There Really Such A Thing As Being "Whipped"?
The April GQ has this story on the "Most Whipped Men On The Planet." One of them is Seal. Does he live on this planet? Rupert Murdoch. Old grody coot with designs on market domination falls for hot brilliant chick half his age hailing from World's Largest Maket and that is whipped? John Edwards. Smarmy vain politician mayyyybe didn't cheat on his brilliant cancer-stricken wife and that is whipped? Kevin Smith. That fat guy got a wife? Sure, call that "whipped" if it makes you feel better, gentlemen! But anyway, it got me to thinking: "whipped" is totally a made-up concept. I have never really seen it. "Whipped" is a phrase dreamed up — ha ha, whipped up! — by the emotionally retarded dude who suddenly finds himself surrounded by friends who have run the numbers and realized, whoa, you know, the girls they are boning are way too good for them. More »
tigresses
Cincinnati Cheerleaders More Than The Sum Of Their Pretty Parts
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Men's magazines are so much better than women's magazines. For starters, they don't condescend, have an evolved sense of humor and they're sorta naughty (but not in a trying-too-hard Cosmo sort of way). And they actually seem much more devoted to writing interesting — albeit occasionally obnoxious — pieces on women than any of their ladymag sisters. Take this month's GQ. The Conde Nast men's magazine devotes an entire nine pages to the plight of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals, the pro cheerleading squad for the City of Chili's NFL team. Special care is given to presenting the Ben-Gals as a group of complicated women with a complicated job ("complicated" meaning, cheap: A pro cheerleader makes $75 a week, and, according to GQ, it costs a Ben-Gal approximately $1,000 a month to just achieve and maintain her "total package". Talk about labors of love). More »
rag trade
Watch Out Christiane Amanpour: Here Comes Naomi Campbell
- So that's what Naomi Campbell was doing in Venezuela: interviewing Hugo Chavez for British GQ. Now they're sending her to talk to Fidel Castro. Is this a fucking joke? And if not, does she realize the whole Latin American socialist alliance thing is like, kinda last season? [Vogue UK]
- Selling real fur as "faux": clever move, Neiman and Saks! [Consumerist]
- On the heels of an ELLE redesign, Vogue is undergoing some design "tweaking" of its own. [WWD, 1st item]
- Agyness Deyn is the face of — well, the whole entire fucking universe, including the Armani cell phone. [Sassybella]
Two things of note from GQ magazine, (both of which can be seen online) First: Is 30-year-old happily married man Robin Thicke about to spank 19-year-old songbird Rihanna? And are we prudes, or is this kind of inappropriate as well? Second: The GQ "Obsession Of The Year" is 18-year-old Hayden Panettiere, shown in a Lolita-esque swimsuit pose. [GQ]
weighty issues
Do Women Want To Be Thin In Order To "Dominate Other, Fatter Women"?
In the December issue of Vogue UK, British GQ features director Alex Bilmes tackles a ladymag staple: "Men's attitudes to women's attitudes to their weight," aka the article wherein a dude criticizes women as a gender for being so weight obsessed. Bilmes covers mostly familiar ground — men don't want women to be obese but they like curves, muscles are ugly on women, obsessing about your weight is "unappealing" to men, etc. etc. At the very end of the 3-page article, though, Bilmes drops this fascinating little nugget: "I think that much of the time, women want to be thin so that they can dominate other, fatter women." He also says that, "Where we see a vivacious, curvy, sensual sort, you see a hopeless beta-female, a Bridget Jones." More »
media criticism
Jessica Alba Is About To Get A Lot Of Doctored Photos Sent To Her iPhone
Jessica Alba likes weiners and she's not afraid to look at glossy pictures of them, she apparently told some GQ writer for the August issue:Men's magazines have nipples, so why don't women have a magazine where men show their penises? If there was a magazine like that I'd buy it. Nudity's not a big deal to me.Um, surely Jessica Alba, who once sued Playboy, has heard of Playgirl? But more importantly, why do starlets always come away from interviews with gentlemen's magazines sounding like more culturally literate Bond Girls? At least with porn, the only personality attributes they ever try to ascribe on the jerkoff specimens begin and end with "bisexual." More »
