Category Archives: metrosexy

Becks’ Bum: Satisfaction or Disappointment?

I don’t have much to say about the much-discussed latest Beckham ad for his H&M pants, directed by fellow LA-loving Brit Guy Ritchie, in which he runs through Beverly Hills in his white slippers as the props and scenery conspire to remove his clothes, Cupid Stunt–like. Except: Those slippers must be really, really snug to stay on. And: …

February 10, 2013 – 9:07 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, commentary, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Oblivion

(I also quite like the song) Tip: Natty

March 8, 2012 – 10:18 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in metrosexy, music | Tagged , | Comments Off

Today’s men are obsessed with their bodies — but is that so bad?

Yours truly in today’s Guardian.

January 31, 2012 – 9:20 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Sexy and I Show It: Parading Cadets (& Olympic Divers)

Last year metrodaddy declared the LMFAO dance hit ‘Sexy and I Know It’ an anthem  for the Jersey Shore/Geordie Shore/The Only Way is Essex/The Hunks/Men’s Health Magazine generation of metrosexy young men and the metaphorical (and not so metaphorical) spangly Speedos they’re flaunting themselves in. But I have to say I was a tad ambivalent about the heavily ironic …

January 25, 2012 – 2:27 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexy, music | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Ciao Bello! Mark Simpson interviewed by Italian mag ‘Studio’

English (unedited) version of Q&A with Mark Simpson by Michele Masneri for Italian cultural  magazine Studio in which he talks about the Italian roots of sporno, the next stage of metrosexuality – and the Silviosexual What do you mean by the word “sporno”? The place where sport and porn get into bed while Mr Armani takes pictures. …

January 19, 2012 – 7:03 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in interview with Mark Simpson, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

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)

Still Ill: Narcissism is Sick Again

Terrible news! Call off the Xmas Party at Men’s Health magazine! Cancel the male strippers and the buckets of (low-fat) blancmange! Self-love isn’t going to be rehabilitated after all. At least not by the shrinks. Professionally speaking, it will remain the love the dare not speak its name — even as the culture screams nothing …

December 5, 2011 – 1:43 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , , | Comments (19)

Review of ‘Metrosexy’ at Italian literary blog ‘Finzioni’

GP Leonardi at ‘Finzioni’ reviews Metrosexy. You can read it here.

December 4, 2011 – 10:43 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in metrosexy | Tagged | Comments (2)

The MetroseXY Movement

Hip hop has its own Andrej Pejic. The rapper DPhill Spanglish Man is rebelling against the rap-ismo dress code with something he dubs the ‘XY Movement’ which according to this report, ‘encourages men to get in touch with their feminine sides by donning lipstick and other items, like floral print tights, typically worn by women.’ “A …

November 11, 2011 – 1:49 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in metrosexy, music | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Details Magazine Reviews ‘Male Impersonators’ and ‘Metrosexy’

Look around. Everywhere you turn, the male form is being idealized, commodified, fetishized. On TV screens (the ripped vampires of True Blood), in Hollywood (Ryan Gosling’s toned torso lifting Crazy, Stupid, Love to the top of the box office), and on billboards (towering images of chiseled men in briefs), laptops, and smartphones (the appendages of …

October 18, 2011 – 10:13 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in metrosexy | Tagged , , | Comments (5)