The Official Men's Magazine Thread
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Benn98
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Love the styling on Azim Osmani, those wide-legged trousers look great on him.
Every single cover looks like it could be either from Attitude or Gay Times, sure you're catching my drift? Indeed one of them was shot by Gay Times' resident photographer.
Also, the retouched bulge on David Trulik is distracting. Thanks for posting, Nevin!
Every single cover looks like it could be either from Attitude or Gay Times, sure you're catching my drift? Indeed one of them was shot by Gay Times' resident photographer.
Also, the retouched bulge on David Trulik is distracting. Thanks for posting, Nevin!
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Nothing cohesive just the materialization of gay fantasy with all the Instagram models/celebrities from the moment :
The hunk guy : check
The cool guy : check
The twink guy : check
The light skinned guy from the "hood ": check
The brazilian guy : double check
but this is not bad at all. This just not fashion.
The hunk guy : check
The cool guy : check
The twink guy : check
The light skinned guy from the "hood ": check
The brazilian guy : double check
but this is not bad at all. This just not fashion.
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I agree, the only fashion cover story is the one with Francisco Henriques. This Prince interpretation is stunning!!! I am not saying this because he's my favorite male top model of this decade ahahah promise
I meannnnn come on: he should be doing all the jobs now ! Love his look in this story or in every modeling job, truly powerful and 90's super male model + super glamorous look (ancient greek god mixed with Mediterranean ephebe and yet modern and cool like a surfer or skater ahaha). Source: models.com
- Kosmas Pavlos - Photographer
- Luke Day - Fashion Editor/Stylist
- Liz Taw - Hair Stylist
- Claudine Blythman - Makeup Artist
- Francisco Henriques - Model
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Oh my, Christian is the hottest guy ever.
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LOL, indeed!
which is funny given the political situation in the country. it's almost as if they're pushing the envelope just because. and i applaud them. reminds me of the old l'officiel hommes days under milan vukmirovic, just sassier and raunchier. just how i like it.
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But I have been thinking about this for a long time now, hear me out:
- many magazines sometimes go from unknown models to big time models
- many magazines go from actors and singers to again top models
- many magazines change their photographers from time to time
Why is that L'Officiel Hommes Poland only have top models on their covers and by the same photographers? I feel that these covers are being heavily bought by the same agencies (which I know isn't new at all)
- the models either come from the same agencies
- the photographers are the same
- the styling (if you can call it that at times) is more based on doing sexy/raunchy photos instead of focusing on Fashiony outfits and looks
- and last but not least, I truly feel that it's not a team but an agency behind the creation of the magazine by how their instagram is handled or how the website truly looks like. Do they truly have interviews of people inside the magazine or is it just editorials with Polish titles?
Again I'm not hating, I like to see what other men's fashion magazines are doing, it inspires me for mine but I have been thinking about this magazine and these questions for quite a long time. Does anybody felt that or could enlighten me in some way?
Like I don't have the same questions when I see other international men's magazines but this one feels very much that the agencies are buying space and sending their top models to get covers because otherwise these guys do not do big fashion shows or fashion editorials in other mags (just a few of these) because they are overly muscular and are mostly body/gym commercial guys, therefore covering a magazine from L'Officiel reputation sort of gives legitimacy to their models. Do you know what I mean? (I personally know modeling agents in New York who do that: they buy magazine editorials and fashion space if you will so their models do not look like they only shoot shirtless jobs for Instagram in fact and not for fashion labels, designers and so on).
- many magazines sometimes go from unknown models to big time models
- many magazines go from actors and singers to again top models
- many magazines change their photographers from time to time
Why is that L'Officiel Hommes Poland only have top models on their covers and by the same photographers? I feel that these covers are being heavily bought by the same agencies (which I know isn't new at all)
- the models either come from the same agencies
- the photographers are the same
- the styling (if you can call it that at times) is more based on doing sexy/raunchy photos instead of focusing on Fashiony outfits and looks
- and last but not least, I truly feel that it's not a team but an agency behind the creation of the magazine by how their instagram is handled or how the website truly looks like. Do they truly have interviews of people inside the magazine or is it just editorials with Polish titles?
Again I'm not hating, I like to see what other men's fashion magazines are doing, it inspires me for mine but I have been thinking about this magazine and these questions for quite a long time. Does anybody felt that or could enlighten me in some way?
Like I don't have the same questions when I see other international men's magazines but this one feels very much that the agencies are buying space and sending their top models to get covers because otherwise these guys do not do big fashion shows or fashion editorials in other mags (just a few of these) because they are overly muscular and are mostly body/gym commercial guys, therefore covering a magazine from L'Officiel reputation sort of gives legitimacy to their models. Do you know what I mean? (I personally know modeling agents in New York who do that: they buy magazine editorials and fashion space if you will so their models do not look like they only shoot shirtless jobs for Instagram in fact and not for fashion labels, designers and so on).
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The beach cover seems like the only one worth publishing. It's so refreshing, feels like a male version of a Vogue Paris summer cover with Gisele Bundchen. The others are either p*rno cheapness or hipster nonsense.
I still do wonder who would buy this issue - a random gym dude who gets turned on by the hypersexualized physique most likely doesn't even know how to pronounce the title of this magazine, let alone purchase it.
@Bertrando3, I know what you mean, just let me add that female models do get their portfolios filled this way too. A smaller, international licensed glossy cover is still a licensed glossy cover, so why not make it a practice or a stepping stone to the bigger, more important titles.
I still do wonder who would buy this issue - a random gym dude who gets turned on by the hypersexualized physique most likely doesn't even know how to pronounce the title of this magazine, let alone purchase it.
@Bertrando3, I know what you mean, just let me add that female models do get their portfolios filled this way too. A smaller, international licensed glossy cover is still a licensed glossy cover, so why not make it a practice or a stepping stone to the bigger, more important titles.
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A large problem I’ve been noticing in men’s titles is the fear of becoming too fashion or making a real statement in these times. They’re very worried on their market consumer/advertisers as there’s a certain niche buyer for certain mags. Either the stories are soft core p*rn flaunting off abs, butt and a chiseled jaw and maybe a speedo or a tank. Or are full blown paid space by brands trying to push forward their Ethos to as many consumers as possible. Or just a catalogue with a collections story of the Dior Men look head to toe and next to it a Prada in head to toe as well.
Certain mags are for the manly man, the metrosexual/spornosexual, the overtly homoerotic lover, the hypebeast. You can tell the same man who buys Man About Town/Wonderland/Rollacoaster would buy L’Officiel Poland and probably GQ Style + Attitude but they wouldn’t buy The Rake or probably Vogue Hommes. But the buyer of Fantastic Man would most likely buy DUST and Arena Homme Plus but most likely not VMAN or Gay Times. We all love a gorgeous fashion story with the clothes being styled normally or in head to toe with our favorite boy of the season. But where is a mag that wants to put forward a true statement with the usage of clothes besides blatant sex appeal or surface level fodder of “topical” ideas that go away in a season. Or wanting to take risk with presenting a man not often shown or character driven.
The last men’s cover from Financial Times How to Spend It by Bruno Staub really made me look again. It raises a lot of questions but at the same time at a level where advertisers can get tickled but they can’t get angry as it tip toes on the volcano. Or that gorgeous Steven Klein The Face cover of that Tik Tok kid, it’s electric to have him dressed a true man of the times. A bit gender bending, level headed, a bit mundane, pompous and a bit sexy. That’s why it’s cool, cause it’s authentic and should speak to this current generation.
Will more mags go that direction, no but you need appreciate the risk to publish something not as commercially friendly or authentic to the masses of Instagram viewers or subscribers. Because without out it, people are scared to express deeper concepts or ideas based on this generation and delve deep into this Instagram culture and see what really influences people beyond money.
Certain mags are for the manly man, the metrosexual/spornosexual, the overtly homoerotic lover, the hypebeast. You can tell the same man who buys Man About Town/Wonderland/Rollacoaster would buy L’Officiel Poland and probably GQ Style + Attitude but they wouldn’t buy The Rake or probably Vogue Hommes. But the buyer of Fantastic Man would most likely buy DUST and Arena Homme Plus but most likely not VMAN or Gay Times. We all love a gorgeous fashion story with the clothes being styled normally or in head to toe with our favorite boy of the season. But where is a mag that wants to put forward a true statement with the usage of clothes besides blatant sex appeal or surface level fodder of “topical” ideas that go away in a season. Or wanting to take risk with presenting a man not often shown or character driven.
The last men’s cover from Financial Times How to Spend It by Bruno Staub really made me look again. It raises a lot of questions but at the same time at a level where advertisers can get tickled but they can’t get angry as it tip toes on the volcano. Or that gorgeous Steven Klein The Face cover of that Tik Tok kid, it’s electric to have him dressed a true man of the times. A bit gender bending, level headed, a bit mundane, pompous and a bit sexy. That’s why it’s cool, cause it’s authentic and should speak to this current generation.
Will more mags go that direction, no but you need appreciate the risk to publish something not as commercially friendly or authentic to the masses of Instagram viewers or subscribers. Because without out it, people are scared to express deeper concepts or ideas based on this generation and delve deep into this Instagram culture and see what really influences people beyond money.
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Won't happen. I hear you and echo each and every word you've typed, but the problem is not so much the fashion alone, but the entire men's magazine culture, the disconnect, and the appeasement that goes along with it. And that comes via the rest of the content and how they speak to their readers. On TFS you'll see the edits extracted and sometimes they may look good, but once you have the entire magazine in front of you, filled with Brunello Cucinelli ads and articles basically fetishising the douchey coolness of that gun-toting Dan Bilzerian and his harem, you begin to realise that the bold fashion edits with a bunch of guys in fuschia-coloured suits and matching fuschia-coloured hair are all just window dressing. A ploy to court more advertising. That's not what their readers are about and they know that.
The only reason I post The Rake is that they're so very far removed from what I like. Plus I find such obsession with dapper dressing and nostalgia so comical, very much like a form of drag. I'm sure someone once said in a documentary or interview that 'we're all really in drag.' And yet that sort of confidence to only stick to 40+ looking suited men who look like they smell of musk and married to the dolly UK Harper's woman is in a way admirable imo. They're doing what works for them. It's a streamlined business model, and I'm sure their advertisers would see a higher ROI than anyone taking out pages in GQ. But probably more importantly, their messaging extends beyond their fashion editorials, it's all-consuming and consistent and as such would seem more credible. They're selling a lifestyle as opposed to a look. And I think that's an important case to make if you want to sell anything to anyone.
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