Tom Ford Wants You to Rock Out with Your Cock Out
There are few things more troubling to discuss than dick love. While a penis has long (pun sooo intended) been seen as a phallis of envy for countless centuries, the modern man and society as a whole seems to have placed a taboo on the subject of honoring your King Richard. Well, Tom Ford, the perennially controversial everygay, has once again pushed some envelopes with his recent twig and berry worship in the spring/summer issue of Britian’s GQ Style.
His essay on the subject asks more men to be comfortable with their package and a) discuss them, b) compliment others, and c) whip them out in his presence. Okay, that last one’s made up, but I seriously feel he wouldn’t think twice about popping his mule out for a looksy if asked. Alright, before I venture into some questionable territories (even though some at the office seem to think I’m a bit passed that point) here are some excerpts from Ford’s strictly dickly report on his meat lust.
Tom, why do you objectify women more than men in your ads?
“As much as I’ve tried, it has been consistently harder to get images of nude men onto magazine pages and billboards than it has nude women. In a society where images of brutal violence are consumed during breakfast, the male nude is one of our last taboos. There’s a double standard at play here: magazines that are happy to fund ads featuring an artfully lit female nude will balk at an image of her male counterpart.”
American fashion magazines don’t show breasts like European ones do. Do you think nude phobia is a uniquely American problem?
“In Sweden or Japan, or other places … casual nakedness at the sauna or the bath house is part of daily life, but in the places that I call home, the fear factor around nudity seems to be rising. I have always found it ridiculous that, in America, if I wanted to run an ad of a woman with bare breasts I had to retouch her nipples. Now why would a woman’s bare breasts, created as nature intended, be more shocking than a bizarre pair of breasts with absolutely no nipples? What could be more perverse?”
So tell us the damn truth about being a woman.
“Women have long been objectified in our society; images of beautiful female forms are everywhere. Go to a dinner party and women are wearing tiny dresses, exposing their legs and baring their toes in high-heeled sandals. They’re basically naked, with a little bit of draping over their body. Think of how tough it must be to be a woman in our culture. Women are constantly judged by their bodies and the size of their breasts.”
But, Tom, what if we lived in a world where penises were breasts?
“Imagine … if our suits were entirely designed to show off our penises. Imagine if contemporary fashion demanded that you left your cock hanging outside your trousers, with perhaps just the head trussed up in a tiny pouch like a dick bra. Everyone would see our cocks all the time, in the same way that fashion features women’s breasts.”
Tell the ladies why male nudity is so very different from female nudity.
“Women may have a hard time understanding this, but imagine if, when they were dressing for a party, their breasts looked great, and then, just as they were stepping out of the taxi to enter the restaurant, their breasts withered to a sad, wrinkled little things. Perhaps the unpredictability of the penis can make us nervous about taking our clothes off.”
But the models in this photo shoot look so comfortable!
“[I]t was almost impossible to find non-professional models to volunteer for the photographs on these pages. The result is a mix of models, actors and ordinary guys … [M]ost of the straight models who showed up had their pubic hair completely shaved; some artistry on the part of the hairdresser was required to get the natural look we wanted.”
But you make clothes, Tom. Gorgeous ones, too. Why are you championing being without them?
“With a more natural relationship to nudity, we might also be freed up to find each other a lot more fascinating. There’s an equality to being naked; the fewer clothes and accessories a person wears the less you judge them, and the more you notice their truest traits, like their eyes or their charisma, their great hands or their one-of-a-kind hair or, most importantly, their personality and character. As much as I love clothing, it gives us one more layer to hide behind.”
Masculinity Stripped Bare [GQ Style]
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About the Author: Founder and main dude at Fashion Indie, Daniel Saynt began his career in fashion at the tender age of 14, when he worked in the stockroom for some unnamed fashion whorehouse. His distaste for the mainstream quickly festered until he decided enough was enough, denouncing all mainstream fashion lines (unless the stuffs on sale or just down right irresistible or free, you can't say no to free).
Tom can do no wrong!
Reply to Lauren GarroniDo you think nude phobia is a uniquely American problem?
Yeah, it’s all the Christian and W. Bush followers. Damn them. I LOVE NUDITY!
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