Category Archives: fashion

Living Doll: Marc Jacobs Talks to Mark Simpson

Marc Jacobs talks to Mark Simpson about his Brazilian (ex) porn star boyfriend, foreskins, gay fashion misogyny, turning 50 and being turned into a stuffed toy. (Originally appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of Man About Town Magazine) Marc Jacobs is many things. So many things that it would make a lesser Mary giddy. He’s a …

April 16, 2013 – 9:58 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in fashion, interview, journalism | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

“You’ve got bigger boobs than me — that’s sooo depressing!”

February 8, 2012 – 12:24 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in fashion | Tagged , , | Comments Off

David Beckham’s Total Package — And his Fascinating Foot

On The Jonathan Ross Show last night David Beckham was the star guest. He looked great of course. But I kept finding myself staring at Mr Beckham’s foot. Naturally, it was shod tastefully and expensively — in keeping with his John Hamm hairdo and 60s-style black whistle and flute. But that wasn’t what drew my …

February 5, 2012 – 8:21 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Beckham, fashion, metrosexual | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Aussiebum’s new ‘PocketJockit’ — Or Should That Be ‘PussyPacket’?

Wonder if the ‘hyper-masculine’ men’s fashion bloggers bigged-up by the NYT wear these under their ‘heritage’ flannels? Hope so. For their sakes. Tip: Stuart Warwick

January 14, 2012 – 2:53 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in fashion | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Gayest Fashion Feature Evah?

The NY Times wants to convince you that men’s fashion blogging is the new bull-fighting. In an inadvertently hilarious piece titled ‘Straight Talk — A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers’, it sets out to prove that Tweeting and Tumbling about tie pins all day is really, like, butch. NOT every fashion blogger is a 15-year-old …

January 14, 2012 – 1:39 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, fashion, metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (6)

David Beckham’s ‘End Result’ — Can You Handle It?

Better order some industrial strength lip balm and practise suppressing the gag reflex. Shameless sporno star and uber-metrosexual David Beckham is ramming his eye-popping lunchbox down our collective throats again. This time with a media ‘offensive’ for his own line of men’s undies – and strangely shapeless vests – from Swedish-owned high street fashion chain …

January 4, 2012 – 3:44 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Beckham, fashion, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

Mr ‘Thing’: Pejic and his Prophet

‘All truly beautiful things are a mixture of masculine and feminine.’ So said the late Susan Sontag. And she would know. I’ve only just read a recent profile of the transexy Serbian model Andrej Pejic in The New Yorker called, with only a soupçon of hyperbole, ‘The Prettiest Boy in the World’. Pejic, who sometimes models women’s fashion, sometimes men’s …

September 3, 2011 – 2:28 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, fashion | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

The Earring Wars are Over

Last Saturday’s The London Times Magazine ran an extract from ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt’, a memoir by Jon-Jon Goulian ‘the New York Review of Books first cross-dressing staffer’. I haven’t read it yet, but the extract inclined me to do so very soon. Here’s Goulian on the semantics of earrings in the 1980s — a semantics which I …

July 20, 2011 – 1:28 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, fashion, masculinity, metrosexy | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

20 ‘Stella’ Years of Dolce & Gabbana For Men

by Mark Simpson, Arena Hommes Plus (Winter-Spring, 2010) America’s hottest new Hollywood stars – who naturally enough in this post-Hollywood era, don’t actually work in Hollywood but reality TV – were recently honoured with a profile in Interview magazine. The Italian-American ‘Guidos’ from MTV mega-hit ‘Jersey Shore’, who have conquered America with their brazenness and …

November 14, 2010 – 2:50 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, fashion, journalism, metrosexual, review | Tagged , , , | Comments (11)

The Obama Model

Mark Simpson on fashion’s new love-affair with black males (Arena Hommes Plus, Spring 2009) Shortly after Obama’s election last year, Israeli-American designer Elie Tahari made a prediction: ‘I think the fashion industry will have a ball with him.’ So far, this is one fashion prediction that has been on the money. Since Obama’s glitzy inauguration …

April 30, 2009 – 12:50 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, Barack Obama, commentary, fashion, journalism, masculinity, racism | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)