Muscling in on fashion

[tortolis]

A profile of fashion designer Marc Jacobs in the September 1 issue of The New Yorker magazine leads off with a description of Jacobs?s newly muscular physique. Now, when The New Yorker runs a profile of a public figure in the arts or pop culture, you can count on some highly suggestive social commentary to be embedded in the writing. But you can?t always be sure the writer will spell out the idea being suggested. Levy writes: ?Jacobs?s physical appearance has come to reflect his success. At the age of forty-five, he is no longer remotely plump.?He looks like a cartoon super-hero: muscular, bronzed, shining with diamonds.? (Jacobs wears studs in his ears.) Levy quotes Jacobs on feeling fit and uninhibited, but doesn?t follow up on the attitude-heavy hints that Jacobs is obsessed with muscles. There?s full-page a photo of Jacobs looking fit, lean and smug as he poses wearing just a pair of briefs and a smile. The article and photo are on The New Yorker website at the following location:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...01fa_fact_levy

Years back, before Gianni Versace was murdered, The New Yorker ran a profile of him that emphasized his unusually muscular male models, bigger than those favored by most designers. The text and illustrations of the clothes suggested seemed to suggest a connection between muscular display and sadomasochism, but not explicitly.

[Eager Muscle]

I used to work out at the same gym as Marc Jacobs (Pumping Iron on Broadway and 76th, which we both lived down the street from, he on 71st, me on 73rd). Don't remember him ever being fat or bespecled, he was actually pretty pert(!) and undeniably cute even with his unfashionably (in 1988) long hair! Funny thing, it looks like he's hardly aged a day. Good for you, Marc!


[COLOR="Red"]"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
- Dorothy Parker

"Faces fall, but a bicep's forever."
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