Finally, a party anthem for the Jersey Shore, Geordie Shore, The Only Way is Essex, The Hunks, Men’s Health Magazine generation of metrosexy young men and the metaphorical (and not so metaphorical) spangly Speedos they’re flaunting themselves in.
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… Read More »Anders Breivik: Metro-Psycho
Last Saturday’s The London Times Magazine ran an extract from ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt’, a memoir by Jon-Jon Goulian ‘the New York Review of Books first cross-dressing staffer’. I haven’t read it yet, but the extract inclined me to do so very soon. Here’s Goulian on the semantics of earrings in the… Read More »The Earring Wars are Over
The Grooming Guru, alias Lee Kynaston, interviews Simpson about how Top Gun made a generation of young men ‘gay’ and why the Romans knew a thing or two about exfoliation. A snippet: GG: Many commentators complain that men are ‘becoming more like women’ with their grooming/beauty regimes. What would you… Read More »Scrape Me With a Strigil! The Grooming Guru interviews Mark Simpson
English version of interview with Simpson about his new book metrosexy by Bruno Horta (Publico, June 16, 2011) Why did you decide to collect these texts in a single volume? I wanted to bring together my essays that document and analyse the profound revolution in masculinity that metrosexuality represents. But… Read More »Interview with Mark Simpson in Portuguese National ‘Publico’