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Madonna sure knows how to make an entrance — that is, in haute couture on the backs of dozens of semi-clad, muscle-bound men. Meanwhile, that’s how I’d like to enter every room from now on.
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- A disco ball-shaped spacecraft descended on Etam‘s spring lingerie show and released upon the world the powerhouse, booty-shaking vocals of Chaka Khan, Grace Jones, Gloria Gaynor and Sister Sledge. The world then dropped it like it was hot. [WWD]
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Jack of all fashionable trades and modern-day Renaissance man Milan Vukmirovic describes his new bi-annual magazine, Fashion for Men, as “very elegant, simple, modern and,” above all, “masculine.” Truly, its 620 pages are dripping in testosterone with collaborations from guest of honor Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci (hence the snarling rottweiler on the cover) and streetstyle auteur Tommy Ton and the manliest of them all, Anna Dello Russo – the only (alleged) woman in the mag . This Male Model Humpday, we take a look inside the mega-tome’s premier issue with three strapping spreads starring Chris Moore, Eric Puzio, Ian Mellencamp and one of our fave gents, Travis Cannata.
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The New York Times chronicles the rise of Nicki Minaj as a style icon; from “making dresses in her basement” to donning Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci to the 2011 Grammy Awards to being a guest of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour at Carolina Herrera‘s spring 2012 fashion show. Minaj, however, has yet to attain the true testament to style-iconery — the coveted cover of Wintour’s precious publication. But according to the raptress’ manager, she’s “in talks with the magazine.”
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Ever since its inception in February, Male Model Humpday has proven to be one of our favorite and most popular features on FashionIndie, but then again it doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to figure out that hot, shirtless and occasionally fully naked male models equals a good time had by all. Join us, won’t you, on a stroll down Humpday Memory Lane as we take a look back at the boys and mens that got our pulses racing in 2011.
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I’ve always loved rooting for an underdog and since her debut in 2004, Ciara‘s been steadily churning out booty-shaking hits while never quite attaining the level of success of say, a Rihanna, a Beyoncé or even an Ashanti. Luckily, Givenchy‘s brooding creative director Riccardo Tisci is similarly obsessed with Cici and, known for his love of dogs, has annointed her one of his muses. Fashion has fully-embraced the songstress with a stunner of an editorial in Vogue Italia now Ciara returns with this shot from Vogue Paris.
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The world’s first openly transsexual supermodel — I have my doubts about most Brazilian catwalkers — Lea T. covers the December issue of Elle Brasil covered in Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci and shot by Fábio Bartelt while the duo of Manuel Nogueira and Luisa Bernardes capture Lea in various stages of hair-whipping and body-writhing for a short fash-film. Check out photos and video after the jump!
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Of his muse, Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci says Lea T has a “unique, rare, natural beauty, a combination of purity, hardness, romanticism, and agressiveness: all components of androgyny that are bound to both sexes.” Combining tranny superpowers with fellow Amazonian androgyne, Andrej Pejic, Lea imhabits this beauty in Candy Magazine‘s “Powerful Soul,” shot by Andreas Larsson. Flanked by male models at every turn, Ms. T takes the lead in a series of gender-blurring portraits as well as in a pas de deux with a YSL-clad Pejic.
