Charles + Olive

UK-based Charles Olive produces bow ties that are fabulously bold in both print and pattern. Such an unexpected pop of color in a much under-used and under-appreciated area of menswear. 

How dapper are they paired with a beard? Their stylist seemed to think so as well.

I always require my dates to wear bow ties. Preferably gold ones.

(example A)

(P.S.This is a picture of my friend Richard and I. Its his birthday today! woo!)

Spotted on Wolf Eyebrows.

"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they'd just walk around naked at all times."

-Betsey Johnson

Helmut Newton

Naked and Dressed, Vogue Studios

Rugby + Love III

Rugby Love: The French Edition.

How absolutely fantastic (and amusing) are these photographs? They're the members of the French Rugby team for a calendar titled "Dieux du Stade: Gods of Stadium". So wonderfully homo-erotic and muscular. Can you imagine waking up to this on your wall everyday? I think I would practically have a heart attack every time I opened my eyes.

Let's just say I couldn't post the majority of the photos on my blog. But feel free to look them up yourselves. You'll have to change your google image settings to "safesearch off" if we're REALLY talking business. Takes me be back to my drawing studios freshmen year.

It makes you wonder what the majority of their dedicated male fan base thought about all this. Though I'd imagine their fans' wives loved it.

But aren't they beautiful? They all have perfect gluteus maximi.

BUT WAIT! There's more.

[Inquiry: How does one get to be the official sander-offer of the models' behinds?]

Making of Dieux Du Stade 2011 - Extras by biako06

Yes I totally overkilled this post but it's fine.

Gossip Girl + Guilty Pleasure

How is that a group of rich, obliviously melodramatic teenagers can get our heart pounding and palms sweating? Is it the sex? The clothes? The flamboyant and unabashed wealth? Perhaps it's all of the above. My fabulous friend sums it up in 10 words in her beautifully insightful blog Psyche of Ingenuity. check it out. I personally would add Penn Badgley to the list. But maybe that's just me.

There's no way it's just me.

They are just. so. attractive. Talk about breeding inferiority complexes.