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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Michael Spookshow, a fashionista-cum-blogger from Florida, whom I follow closely, was recently featured in an interesting interview. The intro and the captioins are in French, but that's what Google-Translate is for, right?

Check it out HERE

Saturday, May 17, 2014

We Exist

Arcade Fire

From the album Reflektor

Friday, February 14, 2014

Borrowed Dresses

ThMNSTR

Olly, an independent male artist (he does have a female alter ego, though: Ms. Amelia Stone), has dedicated a complete section of his wonderful blog to sharing portraits of himself wearing "borrowed dresses".

It's really worth visiting: He looks absolutely stunning in every single one of them.

I wish I could borrow that many dresses! (and look just as good as he does wearing a dress!)

Now, I'd love to hear from you, my loyal and dear readers: any pics of yourself in dresses?

Please submit: newmalefashion@gmail.com

Peviously

Other Cool Bloggers

Sebastian Simon
Jack

Ben

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Men Under the Influence

Jon Uriarte

Photography

In an attempt to depict how gender relationships have changed since our parent’s generation, Spanish photographer Jon Uriarte came up with this brilliant set, showing young [heterosexual] men dressed in their girlfriends' clothing, shot in the intimacy of their shared home.

Is it only me, or do us guys usually look better after switching clothes?

Source

The Streets of San Francisco

Candy Magazine

Photographer Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello
Styling Samuel François
Models Lindsay Slowhands, Tammie Brown

My source was BYKUA

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

A Chorus Line

This is Felipe, a professional opera singer, and a close friend of mine: In case you didn't guess it at first sight, he's the one wearing a striped b&w dress, a fiery-red shawl, and matching lipstick and ballet flats.

He is also my co-worker at a major opera house and, as you may see, he has a style of his own (and real guts!)

Actually, he often impersonates a female character he has invented. He emulates a female: he "femulates", as my friend Stana would put it (see http://www.femulate.org).

He then becomes Madame Maria Vkallasova (paying a joint hommage to the immortal Maria Callas and to all those wonderful Slav opera divas whose last names end in "ova": Dimitrova, Arkhipova, Kuznetsova, what-have-you-ova)

Not only does he emulate the divas' appearances, but also their voices!

In an amazing vocal feat, he sings all the major opera arias in the original soprano range, reaching even the highest upmost notes at full strength with total ease and stamina, especially the more dramatic ones. And he/she does so in a way I've never heard in any other male soprano (I've even browsed all over YouTube for a similar vocal prowess: but no, he seems to be one of a kind!)

Check out Maria's channel on YouTube

Anyways, impressive as Madame Vkallasova may be, for me, it is the "real-life" Felipe who qualifies as a New Male, not the female impersonator.
He's no New Male when he shows up to work "in drag" (i.e.: pretending to be a female), but rather when he dresses as a male, but displaying his unique, inimitable style.

These are all pics I've taken myself during rehearsals.
I hope he doesn't mind my sharing them:

Too bad he doesn't keep a blog.

But you can still befriend Maria Vkallasova on Facebook!

Other New Males in the Performing Arts
Deerhunter
Indie Rock Band
Xavier Dolan
Canadian Actor
Rye Silverman
Comedian

Chris Owens

Celebrity guitarist, singer and songwriter

Key

Zac

Monday, December 17, 2012

Marc on Top

I was recently reminded of this 2007 edit for Harpers Bazaar in which American fashion designer Marc Jacobs is wearing a Tutu.

Photography Jean-Paul Goude

Models Naomi Campbell, Marc Jacobs

This edit was brought back to my mind by

Nice Skirt, Bro

The original article is still available at the Magazines Site

But then, Jacobs is well known for showing up in skirts.

I'm afraid that, paradoxically enough, he does not always look too stylish in his choice of "un-bifurcated" garments.

I rather find some of his adventures en travestie way more interesting, fashion wise that is,

such as this cool edit for Industrie Mag (that was earlier this year, remember?)

http://www.marcjacobs.com/

Footloose and Fashion-Free!

We are living exiting times in many senses: technologies allow us to stay in touch with people from around the word and humanity even starts reaching for distant planets.

When it comes to gender, we have gone a long way into accepting our ample, rich sexual diversity that goes way beyond the traditional gender binary: after many centuries of stereotypes, people finally start presenting themselves as bi-gender, non-binary, genderless, genderfluid.

Even cis-gender people, i.e. those falling into the conventional ”male” and “female” categories, are acting, even unconsciously, in ways far removed from traditional patterns: Ladies are becoming more assertive, while gentlemen are allowed to show their emotions and display their “feminine” side.

All this slow but steady modifications in our conduct, which I consider to be extremely healthy and honest, cannot help but being expressed in the way we dress.

Ladies wear pants and “power suits”, while the creativity, the flair, the colors, the design, which used to be reserved for the girls only, are finally reaching the menswear department. Males don’t have to settle for the same old boring, gray, stuff.

Skirts, heels, jewelry and flower-patterns in bright colors for men are not uncommon any more.

My blog, promotes designers and creators of non-conforming fashions.

WARNING: It’s not a blog about "cross-dressing". That's a word that hopefully will one day vanish from our vocabulary as everyone dresses the way they feel suit and that's that!

Feel free to post your comment!

Feel free to wear whatever you please!

Disclaimer

I do not own the copyright for any of the pictures I publish. My only intention is to promote the creative work of designers, photographers, stylists, and all the artistic talents involved in the production of alternative, inventive, unusually creative fashions.

I'm pretty sure that all those creators benefit from the costless publicity and world-wide promotion they obtain from bloggers around the globe. As a matter of fact, many of them have actually recognized our work.

I make my best effort to always include all the due credits and, whenever possible, to link them to the source where the images were originally published.

Comments

I'm eager to hear from you, my ever increasing number of followers, visitors, and friends!

I'm always pleased to read and to publish all your comments, personal opinions, and whatever experiences you are willing to share with us about the featured fashions and styles. So don't be shy: go ahead and post your input.

Negative comments and criticisms are also welcome! But let me point out that, whatever be the case, pro or con, politeness and respect are always mandatory. Comments containing improper language, as well as derogatory or disrespectful remarks will be deleted.

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