Tom Ford has has cast his upcoming directorial debut, A Single Man. On the playbill will be Colin Firth, playing a gay professor who's boyfriend, Matthew Goode, dies in car crash but appears in flash back, and Julianne Moore steps in as Firth's friend. Sounds tragic, but at least everyone will be pretty to look at. [Popnography] Marc Jacobs is shirtless -- again. The designer lent his bod to photographer Terry Richardson, who collaborated with tattoo artist Scott Campbell (Jacob's personal inker) to do a series of portraits of inker's often high-profile clients. [SuperTouch] Barack Obama finally upgraded his denim. Spotted on a recent bike trip in a pair of jeans our mom would wear, he's now sporting a more relaxed dark wash denim. Good move -- best not to get too comfortable before election night. [NYDN] Elton John only eats on Versace crockery. He claims the later designer's spirit lives in them. Right -- we're oh so sure the eidolon of one of the greatest designers in fashion history is going to set up shop in a cereal bowl. [NYP] Love that sexy, wavy, God-let-me-run-my-fingers-through-it hair on Mad Men? Here's how to get it. [NYT The Moment]
Thanks to global warming, today's weather can be particularly tricky
to adapt your wardrobe to. We hardly have seasons, and the transitions
in between are even more elusive. We're already in September, and in
many parts of the country, it still feels like July. As we do inch
more steadily towards colder weather, those transitional pieces of your
wardrobe are going to be crucial for helping you survive season to
season with style.
Not sure what, exactly, those pieces are? Fear not -- we're here to help, from head to toe, inside out. All week long we'll break down the best options for sliding smoothly into fall. First up:
HATS > While summer is meant for the fedoras, boaters and Panamas, as you move into fall, you'll want to look for heavier materials and more durable shapes. You know the types: berets, Gatsbys -- or, the Newsie's favorite, flat caps (pictured, Dolce & Gabbana), which, along with felted bowlers, are my season favorite. But, as cute an accessory as hats may be, do be mindful of the dreaded hat hair. Tussled is cute. Disheveled is not.
While aging has become a taboo for most gay men, gray hair has quietly become a sex symbol. With Anderson Cooper, Eric "McSteamy" Dane and George Clooney sporting graying locks on primetime television, the distinguished look of a man sporting some salt and pepper—especially at an early age—is widely accepted as attractive.
But what can you do once your salt and pepper becomes more salt than pepper? Dying all of your hair can look fake, but luckily, there are a number of products that can help you to reduce the amount of gray on your head without resorting to a major cover up.
Redken for Men Color Camo: This in-salon dye job adds a little more pepper to your salt-and-pepper locks in just one visit to your colorist. Visit RedkenForMen.com to find a nearby salon.
Just For Men Touch of Gray: If you don't want to make the trip to a salon for a dye job, try the DIY approach at home. This super simple, five-minute, brush-in treatment lets you control how much gray you want to cover. Unlike other hair dyes, you won't have to mix anything, so it's mess free and pretty much fool proof. Just For Men Touch of Gray, $7.99, at CVS.com.
Joico Re:Nu Age Defy: Joico's latest haircare system promises to restore color and healthy texture to your locks in five months by stimulating melanin production with a twice-daily Re:nual Serum. In stores May 2008, visit Joico.com/renu for more information.
Yves Saint Laurent was made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor by French president Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday. I can't think of anything witty to say about this one. It's YSL. Show some respect! [WWD]
Helmut Lang—the brand no longer run by Helmut Lang—will open a pop-up shop in NYCs Meat Packing District. Although that sentence seems full of double entendres, it isn't. [Fashion Informer via NY Mag]
Hollywood heavyweight Ridley Scott hopes to make a film about the tumultuous past of Gucci—murder! fashion! Hollywood!—but the folks at the luxury brand fear that Scott will make the film too sensational. Sounds like the family made it sensational enough on their own. [British Vogue]
Despite ads for Hairapy, your hair stylist is tired of listening to your problems. Please stop burdening them with your relationship issues and get a real therapist. [NY Times]
Versace's newly-launched interiors website allows architects and interior designers to download 2- and 3-D models of items to include in design plans. So, you can be sure that your purple and white gold bed will fit in your bedroom. [WWD]
Air New Zealand plans a "Pink Flight" from San Francisco to Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in February. According to Queerty, "High-flying homos will enjoy some international camp as the crew dons
feathered boas, serve pink cocktails and provide a bit of cabaret." All this in-flight fun for $1000. I always thought an airline with a name like Virgin would be the first to plan something like this. Yay for the Kiwis! [Queerty]
The unstoppable virus that is Crocs footwear, the neon colored shoes favored by fashion-oblivious midwestern tourists and lazy soccer moms, are causing injuries! Crikey! According to Radar, they get caught in escalators. If being an absolute eyesore wasn't reason enough to avoid the hideous things, maybe croc-hungry escalators will teach people that the shoes are not appropriate to wear in public. [Radar]
Always the drag queen of pop, Michael Jackson's wig required three hours of sprucing for a recent Italian Vogue photo shoot, say the NY Post. Come on, any drag queen worth her weight in pancake makeup lives by two cardinal rules: "The higher the hair, the closer to Jesus" and "Never spend more time on your wig than on your face." Oh, wait, Jackson has spent more time (and money) on his face. [NY Post]
The U.S. Open kicks off on Monday and Andy Roddick, the cutie golden boy of the court has been making his rounds among New York's social elite. But there's something a different about the ace tennis player. It seems that his head fell into a tub of peroxide and came out a little...well, deep fried.
Enter into evidence, photo #1 (left): Taken last month at the ESPY awards. Roddick looks dapper with light brown locks even though his suit (or the photographer) seems to have taken a hit of acid before leaving the house. What's going on there?
Photo #2 (right): Snapped two days ago in NYC during a party for Hamptons Magazine (he's on the cover this month), and his hair is a shade of blonde that does not naturally occur on Mother Earth. Perhaps he got caught up in Beckham-fever and bleached his hair in solidarity with the soccer player because both of their sports play second string to baseball and football in this country.
At least he stopped injecting collagen in his lips. Does anyone remember the awful Cargo magazine cover from September 2005? His lips rivaled Amanda Lepore's!
Head over to Project: Gay (the boys behind the always excellent Project: Rungay blog) for running commentary and tons of pictures from the after-party -- including Anthony showing off his, uh, assets.
If you missed the big episode -- don't worry. At least until Life on the D-List starts this weekend, Bravo's rerunning the show approximately 18 hours a day.
What to make of Shear Genius, Bravo's attempt to do for hairdressers what it's already done for dressmakers? The first episode aired last night. Some first impressions:
The stock characters are nearly the same as those on Runway. Bitchy homos, kind homos, outrageously confident homos, closeted homos...and then a bunch of women with varying levels of talent. There may be some lezzies among them (the angry Tabatha, perhaps?)
Tabatha, Dr. Boogie
The most interesting of the 'mos goes by the name of Dr. Boogie. He wears an incriminating Carrie Bradshaw-style blossom on his breast but suggested he was straight when introduced to the (arguably) hunky stylist/consultant Rene Fris:
"I'm not gay or anything like that but I don't have a problem complimenting someone. Rene's GORGEOUS!"
C'mon, Boogie. We'll call you doctor when you recognize your condition!
The producers made a terrible mistake when they allowed the judges to eject Paul-Jean, a snotty French import who promised to be the show's most entertaining cast member (he was the winner of the viewer poll on who was most likely to become Shear's drama queen).
Jaclyn Smith, Sally Hershberger
We fear for the show's host, Jaclyn Smith. Not only does she not seem to know much about hair, she also who sits next to Sally Hershberger (the inventor of Meg Ryan's trademark 'do). Jackie has been out of the public eye for a very long time now, and has come dangerously close to parodying herself, Valerie Cherish-style:
"THAT looks like it took more than two hours to create!"
Bad pun. We know, it's to-PAY. Of course, when you think of it, in time you'd probably PAY a lot less for a piece that really suits you than swallowing pills, getting transplants, or rubbing creams onto your hemisphere. Writer David Thorpe decided to go for a "Federer" when he ordered his toupee. Click here for the whole story.
Related: Thesmokinggun reveals that The Hair Club for Men has been spying on former clients.
Gay men love fashion, and fashion loves gay men. Is it something in our jeans? Celebrating this long tradition, Stylelist exists to offer advice, tips, and the occasional catty observation on celebrity style coups and faux pas.
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Chatter: Yohji Yamamoto: “It’s the worst possible time to be opening, and I like it." -- Yohji Yamamoto at the opening of his new Paris flagship on Rue Cambon.
Out on The Scene: The Out 100!: Photo: Rae Votta The gayest of the gays came out Friday night for the 14th annual Out 100, and while the party raged on with the designers, stylemakers, entertainers and artists of the year working the crowd and the open...
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