Plastic Surgery

Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2011

The male body as an object of proportion. Divided. Extremeties opposed in relation. The arm, the musculus biceps brachii as the centre of asymmetric divergence. Fabrics and mind are taken away, then replaced again.
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Hero Worship

Part 15: Rudolf Nureyev




Photos Unknown, Richard Avedon

Supposedly the best male ballet dancer of the 20th century, his bare athletic perfection has been impressively documented by the aesthete Avedon. A manifest memento of what we aspire.
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Suggestion #2

Bronze statue

Since my visit to Millesgården I am longing for a vintage athlete statue. I'll be happy to admire its beauty every morning and wallow in the depths of controversial Greek mythology.
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Gänseblümchen

Top Alexis Mabille Spring/Summer 2011
Bottom John Singer Sargent

Men wearing laurels. Or daisies. The antique reference recalls the decadence of Caligula. But I mostly adore the vulnerability and softness evoked by endorsing a man with a floral wreath.
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Image credits Catwalking, George Chamoun

Namesake

Photos Horst P Horst

Finally a tribute to the beautiful work of Horst P Horst that has been long time overdue. Gracious nymphes in black and white. Precise still life compositions. Architecural male nude portraits.
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Voyeurism 1956

Artworks Andy Warhol

Comparatively little attention has been paid to Andy Warhol's minute drawings. Pure portraits with a great sense for reduction. No need for pop colour schemes and endless repetition. Just the beauty of simplicity.
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Disrobement

Photos Terry Richardson

We are literally dying. Right now. We are in total shock Rachel Zoe's puppy assistant Brad Goreski looks that handsome underneath his Ralph Lauren shirt. We do miss Taylor though.
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Obsessive Fixation

Karl Lagerfeld The Beauty of Violence

After Metamorphoses of an American, Karl enlights us with another photographic examination of male beauty. As his muse and latest protégé appears Baptiste Giabiconi. A book that will surely serve as nice addition to any private library.
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Hero Worship

Part 10: Tom Nicon





Horst is in love. Again. This time it is serious. How incredibly beautiful is he? The big question is now: How can I get hold of him and rope him into my universe.
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Image credits Cameron Krone, Giuseppe Gasparin, Chris Vidal

Imitative Simulacra

Artworks Bruce Sargeant

A body of work dedicated to the athletic body. Torn between realism, magic realism, social realism and surrealism. Statues of implied presence, revived by the rythm of lines and incomplete structures.
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War & Romance

Photos Alasdair McLellan

Images reflecting intimate and intense beauty. Male attraction fighting for a tender escape. Alasdair McLellan proofs evidence of his photographic capabilites over and over again.
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Wishlist 6

Male: From the Collection of Vince Aletti

120$. 300 black & white and color illustrations. Accompanied by a text by Collier Schorr.
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Blood, Sweat and Tears

Photos Bruce Weber

Found and scanned in the LCF library: My most favorite Bruce Boys. His work defined a concept of male identity that is stunningly beautiful and tender.
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Boyd

Model Boyd Holbrook

I like his haircut.
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Gustav

Best dressed with bow tie. Gustav is the Swedish embodiment of a nouvelle vague of sexiness, smartness and maleness. Adorable from head to toe every detail expresses sovereignty, significance and well-thoughtness.
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Crowned Prince

Model Christopher Sylvest
Via Homme Star

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