Oh, Mark Vanderloo ... Too Lovely!

My fave male model is back on the street, as handsome as ever. Oh, Mr. Vanderloo, how we missed ye! Much thanks to Models.com for bringing us a video of the crew and Monsieur Vanderloo, shooting the new DKNY campaign in the big Apple.

DKNY’s Rainy Day Chic

via Models.com/Of the Minute by betty

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Oh, Mark Vanderloo ... Too Lovely!

Origami Napkins

I just thought this was terribly cute! I don't know why, as I usually find that type of elaborate napkin-folding annoying at a restaurant — cute for leftovers in aluminum foil, not so much for a napkin. But I saw this and went, "Awwww!" So, I thought you might like it too, especially since this napkin teaches you how to do it. It's like Fred Murray Dance School feet for napkins!

Origami Napkins

via The Food Section by Josh Friedland

Origami Napkins feature hand-printed how-to-fold instructions on each napkin to create a snail, swan (above), carrot, and sailboat. $35 for a set of four at Uncommon Goods.

 

 

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Origami Napkins

Ninja Cow!

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Ninja Cow!

When Flesh Tone Doesn't Match Your Flesh

Skin Coloured is intended to be a collaborative, visual exploration of what it is to be non-white in a white culture. Make-up, plasters and tights — even when they’re marked “flesh-coloured” — are not the colour of skin that isn’t white. And whilst white women may have trouble matching these items to their skin, for women who don’t class themselves as white, this inconvenience is symptomatic of a wider problem.

To help illustrate this problem, therefore, Skin Coloured is looking for submissions. Send them photographs that illustrate the inadequacy of provisions for non-white people, and they'll post them on the blog, and hopefully both those submitting, and those who’re here to learn, will gain something from it.

Further information can be found here. Please help them by reposting this.

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When Flesh Tone Doesn't Match Your Flesh

How Famous Are You Online?

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How Famous Are You Online?

In Which We Give Equal Time to Batgirl

So, the latest incarnation of the Batman franchise is burning up the box office. That means Batman 3 is sure to rear its intense head in about a year. I'm betting on a woman being featured as more than a boy toy. (Paging Chris Nolan)

As inspiration, I'd like to offer Mr. Nolan this little tidbit. Did you know Batgirl had her own theme song?

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In Which We Give Equal Time to Batgirl

OK, So It Was A Nipple that Did Eva In

Remember all that controversy surrounding the Eva Mendes Calvin Klein TV ad? I mean, the controversy before they were even thinking about releasing the ad for the perfume that doesn't even come out until next month. Remember how I was all *outraged* that Eva's ad would be banned for merely being suggestive?! Well, um, seems the censors are now banning the ad because of a nipple shot (which can be seen in the YouTube video of the commercial below). I can understand that, considering we're in America. In France, they wouldn't care, but here ...

The ad is super sexy, even more so than an Italian Vogue photo shoot! (Oh, wait, Eva already did a nipple-baring photo shoot for the May issue of Italian Vogue, so I guess the ad's not sexier than that.) Props to Eva for showing Miley Cyrus how a grown woman really works a bedsheet. And if Eva's alleged drug problem is due to low self-esteem and body issues, then God help us when the woman gets more confident! Oh, I guess Eva is also tangentially promoting her new movie, "The Spirit," in which she plays Sand Seref, a femme fatale.

Thanks, Eva, for keeping it haute!

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OK, So It Was A Nipple that Did Eva In

In Which We Search for A Man-Sized Man

Take a look at that picture. Mr. David Gandy, male model extraordinaire, nobody's kicking him out of bed, right? Me either, but that doesn't mean I was not shocked(!) to find out that Mr. Gandy has a 28-inch 32-inch waist! That's small ,even for a woman. I'm not even sure I'd be able to wear his belt! Oh, and he's 6'2". Yeah. For those slow on the math, that's super-skinny!

Lord knows that once and a while, I'll step outside of my genetic comfort zone and date a petite man. (O.K., it was twice and one of the two times was DISASTROUS). And, I have an affinity for the tall and lanky types. But for the most part, I like man-sized men. I think a lot of women do. So, what's with the shrinking male ideal?

I've been encountering quite a number of men talking about watching their figures, and these were big guys, who should be big ... tall and big! They're not overweight, just big, but they're self-conscious about it now because of all the new imaging they're seeing. They're finally being overwhelmed like women are. Still, it's worse somehow to me when I have to talk a man out of diet talk when I have to talk a woman out of it.

I say, "Bring back the man-sized man!" And while you're at it, bring back the woman-sized woman too! I have my theory that the emphasis on being super-thin is a conspiracy to make people more controllable. When you're hungry, folks, you can't think!

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In Which We Search for A Man-Sized Man