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[tarsha]

GQ Spain June 2009 : January Jones



Reprint from UK GQ May 2009.

menstyle.es

 

[kuli_trendy]

june issue Esquire indonesia source esquire indo website

 

[Flashbang]

lol what's with the expression?

 

[tarsha]

Cover model is Vadim Rudik from d1 Model Management London.

Bigger cover & inside picture:


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[tigerrouge]

And of course, after me whinging that the writing looked computer-generated, it seems they really did write on Bar for the Esquire cover. I still don't believe it, but they talk at length about it at esquire.com like it's an erotic short story for the readers:

Bar Refaeli: A Country Girl Gets Inked

June 3, 2009

The SI swimsuit model transforms from impossibly lovely to inaccessibly exquisite as we write part of a Stephen King story on her naked body — and offers some tricks for looking sexy in photos along the way.

As she speaks, there are certain words that charmingly betray her, words that remind you she's not from Connecticut or Orange County. Those words are hand, comfortable, magical, and cleavage, which sound like haynd, cumftabul, majkle, and clivvage. Judging by the frequency with which they're invoked, these are some of her favorite words. And the way her slight Israeli accent affects them only highlights her California-girl face.

Bar Refaeli — twenty-four, Sports Illustrated swimsuit-issue cover model, de facto Israeli ambassador to the world, living canvas — is a fascinating hybrid. But somehow a perfectly natural one. She is sitting on a bench on a veranda outside a photo studio along the Hudson River in New York City. She's wearing a baggy plaid shirt, black tights. Her hair is in a ponytail. And as she speaks, the wind off the river carries away the smoke from her cigarette. She talks about Israeli women: "It's the mentality. Israel is so small, and we struggle just to stay alive. Israeli girls are a little more — I'm not comparing — but we're very confident. We like to have fun. We're very free. It shows in our character, and it goes in the camera."

Her ambitions: "Heidi Klum. I really like what she's doing. It's what I picture myself as."

Having part of a Stephen King story written on her body for the Esquire cover: "I haven't seen anything like that ever. So I wanted to be the girl who did it."

The smoke blowing in my face: "Is this bothering you?"

She also talks about how to look sexy in photos, which, as it turns out, involves three key tricks.

Trick one: "The palm of the hand — you need to make it long, your fingers long." She makes a claw shape with her fingers, then languidly unfurls them. (Note: This trick works well.)

Trick two: "Always make your feet point." She extends her leg like a ballerina so her foot is part of a single, graceful line. (Note: This trick works well.)
Trick three: "Your collarbone... how do I say it? Let me show it. Pop it up, pop it out. It's all in the definition of the bones." She pulls the placket of her shirt back, along with a tank top and a bra strap, to reveal the top of her breast and the length of her right clavicle. She flexes her chest so the bone is instantly more defined. (Note: This trick works extremely well.)

She is wearing no makeup. She has lots of freckles. She smiles a lot. In this light, natural light, waiting to begin her work, Bar Refaeli is impossibly lovely.
She walks back inside, goes behind a screen, and she takes off her clothes, puts on a robe, and gets her face and hair done.

As she sits in the chair, she begins to look more tan than she did before. Shinier. Smoother. The freckles, the single most defining characteristic of her face, are gone. (Her childhood on the Israeli coast was literally sunny: "I walked along dirt roads and picked oranges and played with dogs and rabbits and chickens and horses.") She looks... perfect. She looks sad. A little lonely. She's become hot.

She takes off the robe and walks over to a platform so she can have a passage from a Stephen King short story applied to her body by a short-story-body-application professional. She is wearing white bikini bottoms and a red bikini top, which is pulled up, revealing the bottom third of her breasts. The skin there is white. She reads a novel in Hebrew. She doesn't talk. She doesn't move. Without her clothes on, she looks 10 percent larger. She is thin, of course, and her stomach is impossibly taut. But she has grown somehow. Maybe it's the clivvage.

She's become inaccessibly exquisite.

She walks over to a corner of the room where the photographer is set up and lies down on the floor with inked-up torso and arms, one of them precisely positioned over — but not covering — her breasts, her hair fanned out behind her. There is a camera mounted on a rack above her. There are about fifteen people hovering around, and she scowls like a criminal. She looks like a live photograph. She looks like she wants to kill you.

She's become gorgeous.

Breaking character, she says, "I want to see," and she lifts her head up and glances over at a monitor to review the photos that were just taken. She becomes the southern-California girl from central Israel again. And she smiles. She's no longer covering her breasts in an artful way; she's holding them because she doesn't want fifteen people to see them.

She looks the way a warm girl looks. She looks beautiful.

The Cover Artist

For this month's cover, we asked graphic designer James Victore to transcribe parts of Stephen King's short story "Morality" on the lovely Bar Refaeli. He spoke with us just before getting started.

ESQ: What's the medium?
JV: Shoe polish.
ESQ: Really?
JV: No, no. It's what body painters use, but body painting is kind of boring. We're trying to give it some energy.
ESQ: Did you map this out?
JV: To a certain degree, but it might change, and we have to be cool with that.
ESQ: What about practicing?
JV: I have an exquisite wife, and I practice on her. Also, we worked with three different models. Everyone is different. The flesh is different, the curves are different.
ESQ: And how does Refaeli compare?
JV: She's a perfect canvas because her skin is so flawless. It's going to be amazing.

The Cover Proofreader

Articles editor Ross McCammon, who wrote about Refaeli, was also tasked with checking her for spelling errors.

"I had to read her three times because the first read was a wash — I felt disoriented, I wasn't used to the medium, I was rapt by King's wordsmithing. So the real work began on the second and third passes. As I scanned each line, reading the words out loud, checking for trouble spots (afterward, not afterwards, for instance), Refaeli slowly — but all too perceptibly — moved her body according to whatever I needed to get a good look at. Which was distracting, but I thank her for it."

 

[mikel]

I don't like Bar, but her Esquire cover is really nice. I love the layout.

 

[moussemaker]

Bar Refaeli - GQ Italia June 2009

source hq4u.org/ scans by blackangel41999

 

[Annu]

And GQ Italia is still so fabulous. Love their style! Bar looks amazing.

 

[Tinsley V]

GQ US July 2009 | Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno

Sacha Baron Cohen/Bruno on the Comedy Issue

ebay users superfan-24

 

[tarsha]

^ great

thanks Tinsley V

 

[MyNameIs]

LMAO. That GQ cover is actually pretty bold of them.

 

[moussemaker]

IMHO it's actually more attractive than Depp on VF and Willis on W this month.

 

[Flashbang]

^Indeed

SBC's really into his character. Bravo!

 

[tarsha]

GQ US July 2009 : Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen hilariously takes the July 2009 cover of GQ magazine as his naked alter ego, gay Austrian fashion journalist Bruno. In the issue, Bruno answers your burning sartorial questions. Here’s a few LOL celebrity-related ones:

Dear Brüno, how can I get some “Efron hair”? Or at least some “Pattinson hair”? Ich vouldn’t bother getting a Zac Efron hairstyle right now, cos ich am about to change mine and he’s certain to copy me again. In terms of grooming, ze only thing he hasn’t copied me with ist getting his ballensack pierced— vell, he hadn’t had it done ze last time ich saw him.

Dear Brüno, what do you sleep in? In reality, ich sleep in a seaweed body wrap
under a Zac Posen Navy-Cut Nightshirt. In mein dreams, ich sleep naked in a giant reed basket drifting slowly down ze Nile, cradled in ze arms of Daniel Radcliffe.

Dear Brüno, is it okay to “manscape” down there? It’s more zan okay; it is most essential. Be careful if you do it yourself, though—yesterday ich tried to self-wax mein arschenhaller
und glued meinself to ze bed. Manscaping ist important, but not as crucial as getting regular anal bleaching. If Brüno didn’t get his schmutziger arschenhaller bleached twice a month, his shtinker vould resemble Dizzy Gillespie during a trumpet solo. In Austria anal bleaching ist considered so important zat it’s paid for by ze state. In fact, you cannot run for office if you don’t have a vhite arschwitz. Indeed, ex-chancellor Kurt Waldheim vas elected on ze back of a prishtine anus. Zere are added benefits to getting ze bleaching—on my last session, mein beautician, Klaus, found ze long-lost head of a David Beckham action figure up zere.

justjared

 

[Flashbang]

...........
I definately getting this

 

[mikeijames]

LMAO. That GQ cover is actually pretty bold of them.

i actually can't believe they've done this. poor out magazine. bruno does gq. glambert does rolling stone. the world has truly changed.....

i love the audacity of this.

 

[Annu]

men.style.com
GQ: Fall Preview 2009
FALL PREVIEW ‘09
Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick sports threads that will keep you warm as the weather cools


In our annual salute to the clothes that will help you weather the brisk months ahead, actor Ed Westwick reaches for the pieces that embrace timeless style and construction. Because the best gear shouldn’t last just one season but a lifetime.

*****

On the first-ever episode of the outrageously hyped television sensation Gossip Girl, Ed Westwick’s character, Chuck Bass, bookended a pair of date-r*pe scenes with a weed reference and the memorable zinger—delivered to the show’s principal, Serena—“Your life is over, sl*t!”

“Villain is such a harsh word,” Westwick says from a hotel room in Washington, D.C., where he has just attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s hard to imagine what a recently minted 22-year-old television antagonist from England was doing pressing the flesh with Beltway muckrackers. But Westwick, who looks like Jude Law crossed with a pre-psychotropic-meltdown Joaquin Phoenix, assures us in his assured British way that “everyone who is anyone was there.”

If that makes Westwick sound like a bit of a dick, surrender now—it’s part of his appeal. Just ask Gossip Girl’s freakishly wide-ranging demographic of religious watchers, many of whom are as entertained by the incestuous nature of the cast as by the show itself. Westwick dates co-star Jessica Szohr (they played kissy face at our shoot) and is roommates (cute!) with Chace Crawford. When pushed to dish, Westwick minimizes the thin line between work and play, and fair enough. You’d date a co-worker if she looked like Jessica Szohr.

In our annual salute to the clothes that will help you weather the brisk months ahead, actor Ed Westwick reaches for the pieces that embrace timeless style and construction. Because the best gear shouldn’t last just one season but a lifetime.

*****

On the first-ever episode of the outrageously hyped television sensation Gossip Girl, Ed Westwick’s character, Chuck Bass, bookended a pair of date-r*pe scenes with a weed reference and the memorable zinger—delivered to the show’s principal, Serena—“Your life is over, sl*t!”

“Villain is such a harsh word,” Westwick says from a hotel room in Washington, D.C., where he has just attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s hard to imagine what a recently minted 22-year-old television antagonist from England was doing pressing the flesh with Beltway muckrackers. But Westwick, who looks like Jude Law crossed with a pre-psychotropic-meltdown Joaquin Phoenix, assures us in his assured British way that “everyone who is anyone was there.”

If that makes Westwick sound like a bit of a dick, surrender now—it’s part of his appeal. Just ask Gossip Girl’s freakishly wide-ranging demographic of religious watchers, many of whom are as entertained by the incestuous nature of the cast as by the show itself. Westwick dates co-star Jessica Szohr (they played kissy face at our shoot) and is roommates (cute!) with Chace Crawford. When pushed to dish, Westwick minimizes the thin line between work and play, and fair enough. You’d date a co-worker if she looked like Jessica Szohr.

Still, is there a downside to all that Gossip glare? What happens when TV’s latest prep-school bad boy tours Arlington Cemetery with his real-life parents? “Every time the tram would stop, these girls would come up, giggle, then run off,” Westwick says. “You feel like the kid in school that everyone’s laughing at.”—will welchPhotographs by Nathaniel Goldberg

 

[Mirik]

GQ UK July 2009 : Megan Fox by Simon Emmett
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megansafox.com/2009/06/03/more-of-megan-fox-in-gq-uk-july-2009/
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[Mirik]

GQ UK July 2009 : Megan Fox by Simon Emmett
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megansafox.com/2009/06/03/more-of-megan-fox-in-gq-uk-july-2009/

 

[Mirik]

gq.com + justjared GQ July 2009 Bruno by Mark Seliger