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Monday, February 28, 2011

Elle Tahari Fall 2011










Calvin Klein Mens Wear Fall 2011







2011 Oscars: Live Performance By PS22 Chorus - Somewhere Over The Rainbow



You know I HAD TO DO THIS---G-d bless you PS 22

Lady Gaga - Born This Way



Well kids finally "Mother" Gaga has released the newest video for the smash hit "Born This Way". While a tremendous song, a wonderfully gay positive message the video in itself is a VISUAL FEAST for the eyes. The special effects, the hidden message that I am sure only "Mother" Gaga knows for sure what they are. This finally gives not only a community a true, real voice but also speaks volumes of ht e rage, anger, sadness, violence and joy that can and is the gay community. Lady Gaga, darling if your reading I want to not only thank you so very much G-d bless you.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Agatha Ruis de la Prada Fall 2011





OK I know that this post is going to be a stretch for what many would consider "true fashion".  It is for some down right bizarre, something for some you would never wear anywhere and some of the concepts are beyond circus outfits.  What I do love though is the use of color.  The design for some of the pieces once you get rid of the kitchky some of the ideas are very wearable.  You have to Agatha this she had the guts to show something that for most of us we would look the other way.  Way to go Agatha with your fierce self!!!!

Venexiana Fall 2011










Lack of posting

I want to take the time and apologize to my faithful readers who come here for their daily dose of fashion, my input and other things.  I have been in a very bad place emotionally this whole week.  I guess most of it revolves around all of the physical pain I have been in since the trip to the emergency room and with my doctors appointment still some time away it has me VERY depressed.  The pain killers make me groggy, I am only one assignment behind in the draping class but as with all of my classes right now what I fear is I have temporarily lost my ambition.  That has NEVER happened before.  I am always so dedicated, so driven to succeed.  Not just succeed but to do it the very best I can which has meant all A's and B's for me.

Of course the pain causes me not to sleep well and most night I am sleeping in the lazy boy because to lay flat in bed is excruciating beyond belief. But at the very least in the lazy boy I am not tossing and turning.  The depression right now is so bad it is hard to focus, stay motivated and just to get through what has been the shittiest 2 weeks of my life.

I feel so afraid they will not find what is wrong, or won't try to and just want to medicate me out of my mind.  Which in the frame of mind I am in right now is not such a bad thing.  I am sure I will snap out of it sooner or later but for now I feel VERY alone, very afraid and very over the whole fucking mess.  I guess I am asking for you to keep me in your thoughts as I go through this and if you want drop me a line.  Hell at this point a surprise from my Amazon Wish list would even be nice even though I have a stack of like 20 books at the side of my bed as it is.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Carlos Miele Fall 2011






















Vintage men's underwear







I personally tend to like antique advertising, I think it is a view into how we saw our lives at a specific time frame.  What major companies thought would sell their items, a glimpse into the pschye of the everyday man.  It is also cool in my opinion to see how much fashion has changed while to some degree how things have not changed that dramatically.  While these ads seem "sexually safe" compared to what advertisers use to sell everything from underwear to a house.  The near naked buff, beautiful boy who you will become by buying that car, house, underwear---well you get the idea.  It makes me wonder when did the shift take place in advertising, was it the pin up girl of WWII, the sexual revolution, the feminist movement?  If you find some old underwear advertising feel free to send an e-mail my way here and will not only show them but give you a hout out for sharing them.  So until next time 

Monday, February 21, 2011

Lady Gaga: I Made Target Change Their Ways

"That discussion was one of the most intense conversations I've ever had in a business meeting. Part of my deal with Target is that they have to start affiliating themselves with LGBT charity groups and begin to reform and make amends for the mistakes they've made in the past ... our relationship is hinged upon their reform in the company to support the gay community and to redeem the mistakes they've made supporting those [antigay] groups." - Lady Gaga, speaking with Billboard Magazine.

G-d bless Lady Gaga,she sure has got guts to do this!!

Lil Mo' Yin Yang - Reach (Alcatraz's "Lil' Mo' Got Gang-Banged" Mix)

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Kobbe Feat Frank Maurel & Carlos Fauvrelle - Talk To Me (Original Mix)



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Armani Jeans Spring Summer 2011




These are the newest Armani Jeans ads for Spring/Summer 2011 the campaign is by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and the models are Rafael Nadal and Megan Fox

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Yet even more Dolce and Gabbana Menswear 2011









I know I cover a lot of Dolce and Gabbana, but honestly I LOVE the stuff.  I don't any D&G but golly do I love it.  Anyway after meeting for lunch my frined at http://goodwillhuntingg.blogspot.com/ we got to chatty about photographs and stories I was sitting on just waiting to be published and well this one came.  Now, you all need to know how much I adore Stacey at Goodwill Huntingg because, she looked me straight in the eye and said "Charlie, everybody loves really good looking near naked men" ( I maybe paraphrasing here but this was the geneal idea).  I had to agree with her. 

 It was funny because we had Mexican and she had already eaten and the guy behind the counter asked "What you like Miss?" and Stacey was like "Oh I ate earlier" and before she said anything more I added "She's with me." I had to share with her later that was the first time I had said that line...."She is with me" since my senior prom.  Oh well the life of your typical gay guy

Anyway what I like the most about these ads/photogrpahs is if you tore them out of the Dolce and Gabbana Look Book or printed them out on regualr photograph paper is they would make beautifulframed artwork.Thanks again for today Stacey!