TREVOFASHIONISTO: Riccardo as a Bear?!?!??! Will he turn into a Walter Van Beirendonck-type?
The funny thing about Riccardo is that no one would look twice at him if he wasn't "Riccardo Tisci: Designer of Givenchy". The clerk at one of my local convenience store look a lot like him, down to the ragtag wardrobe, and no one's swooning over him when they're in there buying smokes.
happytrail: I've never read/heard anything from Olivier Rousteing, so I won't comment on him as a person, but since this is a thread about their looks, he just comes across as a typical rich, young trendy gay man-- verging on the flashy side.
Tom, I find incredibly talented and intelligent as a creative individual, not just as a designer; I adore
A Single Man.
I can't stand the way he talks, and I can see how that comes off as pretentious, but he does back up that talk with the walk-- to me, anyways. On a purely superficial and shallow level, his perfectly groomed beard annoys me greatly; he just looks like he takes hours to get ready. I read he takes 4 baths a day.... That type of over-pampering and indulgence is a huge turn-off-- in men or women. And his forced and overly-practiced "steely but sexy" squint is like something out of
Zoolander. Tom is intelligent, talented and a naturally handsome man, why he chooses to look so botoxed and overly-groomed is kind of a shame.
julien520: Never liked Marc Jacobs' designs nor his personality, which just makes his current incarnation as a dime-a-dozen p*rn model-type just gross, complete with the trashy tattoos. I find nothing attractive about him.
Another designer I should include in the "turn-on" category is Stefano Pilati. I don't know if he's been mentioned here, but he is very attractive. He's not a classically beautiful, handsome type like Joseph Altuzarra and Olivier Theyskens. It's his understated, quiet and naturally masculine demeanor, and very sophisticated and mature attitude I find genuinely sexy. He's not a caricature of a fashionable man, or a gay man, or a gay man in fashion-- he simply comes across as a refined and sophisticated gentleman.