Slit II

1. Karim Sadli
2. Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2011 Backstage

It has only been lately that I've realized the beauty of a male torso's side. A view that is rarely being shared or descried. Therefore, I kindly solicit its more frequent appearance.
/HORST

Male Ideal

Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2001 & 2002

Erase and rewind. 10 years back to the slender and skinny. A radical image of masculinity, slowly being forgotten and replaced by the hunk. Let's be this again. Wearing sleeveless shirts, dipped in metaphoric glitter.
/HORST

Image credits Hedi Slimane

Plastic Surgery

Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2011

The male body as an object of proportion. Divided. Extremeties opposed in relation. The arm, the musculus biceps brachii as the centre of asymmetric divergence. Fabrics and mind are taken away, then replaced again.
/HORST

Hero Worship

Part 15: Rudolf Nureyev




Photos Unknown, Richard Avedon

Supposedly the best male ballet dancer of the 20th century, his bare athletic perfection has been impressively documented by the aesthete Avedon. A manifest memento of what we aspire.
/HORST

Suggestion #2

Bronze statue

Since my visit to Millesgården I am longing for a vintage athlete statue. I'll be happy to admire its beauty every morning and wallow in the depths of controversial Greek mythology.
/HORST

Gänseblümchen

Top Alexis Mabille Spring/Summer 2011
Bottom John Singer Sargent

Men wearing laurels. Or daisies. The antique reference recalls the decadence of Caligula. But I mostly adore the vulnerability and softness evoked by endorsing a man with a floral wreath.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking, George Chamoun

Namesake

Photos Horst P Horst

Finally a tribute to the beautiful work of Horst P Horst that has been long time overdue. Gracious nymphes in black and white. Precise still life compositions. Architecural male nude portraits.
/HORST

Voyeurism 1956

Artworks Andy Warhol

Comparatively little attention has been paid to Andy Warhol's minute drawings. Pure portraits with a great sense for reduction. No need for pop colour schemes and endless repetition. Just the beauty of simplicity.
/HORST

Disrobement

Photos Terry Richardson

We are literally dying. Right now. We are in total shock Rachel Zoe's puppy assistant Brad Goreski looks that handsome underneath his Ralph Lauren shirt. We do miss Taylor though.
/HORST