“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
-William Blake (1757 – 1827)
THE GOD OF SEX
Humans originally lived naked as their natural state, in Greek art male nudes are the norm, nudity was a costume used by artists to depict various roles of men, ranging from heroism to defeat. It’s not known when walking around in the buff began but when Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire the view of nudity as a sin took root.If the millions of artist all over the world (living or dead) have a voice on Nudity in modern art and fashion, we can literally elect our very own nude president, and his name is Thomas Carlyle “Tom” Ford (born August 27, 1961), the champion for male nudity in fashion is a Texan who is battling against an unfair double standard — he says that when it comes to fashion photography in American media, while vaginas and breasts are celebrated, penises seems to make just about everyone uncomfortable. Ford explains “it’s so uncomfortable for us to fit ‘masculine’ and ‘beauty’ together. So we tend to avoid the issue entirely.” An NYU Art History student dropout-turned-actor-turned Parsons Interior Architecture student-turned Studio 54 fixture-turned Chloé intern-turned Hardwick design assistant-turned Gucci creative director-turned fashion empire of high-end sensuality, my very own personal God of Sex in fashion.
TOM FORD: THE FILMMAKER
Ford’s latest project is a film adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood book, “A Single Man” have garnered great reviews at the Venice Film Festival. The screenplay is written by Tom Ford and David Scearce. The plot centers on a gay man who, after the sudden death of his partner, is determined to persist in his usual routine, which is seen in the span of a single, ordinary day in Southern California. The Times of London’s review said: “It’s no surprise that the feature film directing debut of fashion designer Tom Ford is a thing of heart-stopping beauty. He celebrates the male form with a sensual reverence.”
MASCULINITY STRIPPED BARE
“With a more natural relationship to nudity, we might also be freed up to find each other a lot more fascinating. There’s an equality to being naked; the fewer clothes and accessories a person wears the less you judge them, and the more you notice their truest traits, like their eyes or their charisma, their great hands or their one-of-a-kind hair or, most importantly, their personality and character. As much as I love clothing, it gives us one more layer to hide behind.”
- Tom Ford
Words by Tom Ford, Models: Chris Camplin, Terence Doyle, Jay P, RicardoGuedes,
Max Smith, Ricardo Claudino, Troy Roe,Tafari Hinds, Jamie Jewitt, and Max Rogers)
If Mr. Ford pratices what he preaches, I can’t wait for that day to see him in the buff (full frontal) on a magazine, I’ll make sure I’ll get 10 copies. – Navo
http://www.tomford.com/
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