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Anders Breivik: Metro-Psycho

When I first saw the images of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik, the ones he had so helpfully included in his press pack that accompanied his ‘manifesto’, two thoughts immediately popped into my net-addled head: a) They look photoshopped. Especially the soft-focus glamour one in the Lacoste jumper with the collar turned up b) The ‘action …

August 3, 2011 – 3:46 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, current affairs, masculinity, metrosexy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (7)

Quentin Crisp and Hurtian Crisp

The Naked Civil Servant is the best and funniest TV drama ever made. And I’m sorry, but it’s a scientific fact. And like its subject it could only have been made in the UK.  Even if Crisp said he hated England — and he did, over and over again. So many lines in Philip Mackie’s superb …

January 13, 2010 – 6:06 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in celebrity, commentary, film, gay, media, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (12)

Twinsome Devils and the Narcissus Complex

Mark Simpson paints a portrait of a clonosexual world of Dorians (Arena Hommes Plus, Winter 2008, and collected in Metrosexy) Most ads these days aren’t worth a first glance. But earlier this year D&G Time launched a heavily-rotated global campaign directed by Hype Williams that was definitely worth a second. If you looked hard enough, you …

November 13, 2008 – 1:32 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, article, bisexuality, celebrity, journalism, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

In a Darkened Underpass

by Mark Simpson (Originally appeared on Salon.com, April 23, 2004 as ‘Who’s the hunted now?’) In the seven years since she died in a high-speed car crash in a tunnel in Paris, the pictures of the bafflingly mangled black Mercedes that ferried Diana to her death have become almost as famous as its most precious passenger. …

June 6, 2007 – 11:46 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, celebrity, journalism | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)