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Here is Gaulthier's L'Art du French Kiss.

While I appreciate the bearded fellows, I'm sort of wanting to make out with the lady with the nose ring. (The song is Enchantress by Laetitia Frenod.)

Dolce & Gabbana's Foray into the Arena of Genderqueer

The LGBT community has made enormous strides since June 28th, 1969 and with our increasing visibility and acceptance into mainstream culture has come a greater understanding of the nuances and shades of human sexuality and gender identity.  Some would like a Q added on, as Queer better describes a fluid and malleable sense of self where concepts of male/female mix freely like sample scents at the Saks perfume counters.

Of note was the recent kerfuffle around Mx. Justin Vivian Bond’s profile in New York Magazine. Admittedly New York is a publication catering toward an urbane and educated readership, but this was still quite a mainstream outlet to be addressing something as niche (even in the gay community) as a type of gender fluidity that is beyond even Trans; not being born in the wrong gender, but essentially having no gender.

My own social circle casts rather a wide net: variety being the spice of life and myself being a rather curious individual who is absolutely fascinated by people. I pride myself on having friends from all walks of life, and count many persons with no self-identified gender as intimates and associates. From boys who love heels, to girls who bind, to the explosive diversity of the (often tiresomely narcissistic) Club Kid scene, I have more than a handful of people in my life who change personalities as often as they change their jeans.

In the Downtown milieu (Downtown now also includes Brooklyn) waifish androgyny is a social cultivar and there are lots of pretty boys that look like pretty girls, and vice-versa.

So it was on a lazy Sunday after a dinner party, watching movies with my friend Jess, when I was flipping through the past two issues of Vogue when I was delighted by, among other things, a series of spreads for the Fall ’11 campaign for Dolce & Gabbana.

List: Unsubscribed

 

In the past week, the fifteen seconds needed to unsubscribe from mailing lists was taken.  Among the deleted are those no longer relevant to current needs and aspirations and those now made redundant by social networking.  Here's who won't be emailing me any more:

 

 

• Undergear
• Cherry Grove Ice Palace
• Sip 'N Twirl
• Fire Island Pines
• Expedia fares to Costa Rica
• Galapagos
• Spank
• Century 21
• Gilt Groupe
• Gilt City
• MoMa
• Habitat for Humanity
• Columbia Publicity  (Most publicists are in junk mail anyway.)
• The Daily Hookup
• New York Comic-Con
• The Ladders
• Henry Street Settlement
• eBay

FYF After Dark: A man of good breeding, Sir Richard has a glove for every occasion.

If you're successful with your night moves and end up getting down with your honey, Sir Richard's condoms are a classy way to kill to birds with one bone.

For every condom you purchase, Sir Richard supplies one to a developing country, where prophylactics are scarce and sexually-transmitted diseases plentiful.

Already gotten a box? Why, you're a regular fill-anthropist!

Cute ad will have you giving up your apartment.

This ad for a new room-renting service really has nothing to do with the service that allows you to find a room or apartment when you are traveling as opposed to some creepy hotel. Still, as it's the beginning of summer their timing is perfect. And while I wish the first guy wasn't sucking it in so much (as he is clearly my favorite), the surprise ending definitely got me interested in checking out the site (and posting my apartment as available for a week in July), so well done!

Bread and circuses.

"Bank of America showed their appreciation to Los Angeles customers yesterday by inviting Dodger Center Fielder Matt Kemp to make surprise appearances and hand out tickets at banking centers on May 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California."

That DOES take the sting off your curmudgeonly and fraudalent lending practices and exorbitant fee schedules, THANK you!

Whatever. He foO-Oine!!

New Chanel make-up ad is fantastic!

Look, I'm more of a treatment than a color person, but this ad would make anyone want to dab a little color, don't you think? Seeing this inspired me to learn more about Chanel's creative director for make-up Peter Philips. Having risen up through the ranks from being a makeup artist years ago, his story is a good one. Enjoy.