Ugh. I’m flu-ish, again. I hoped that once I had this winter I’d be immune to this strain. But apparently it mutated, again! Also flu shots are a bunch of bunk. You can still get flu if you’ve had a shot! (Not talking about me, talking about my dad).
Having started a new job this week, I am loathe to come back and then further stare at my laptop. My eyes are more square than normal. My sister told me I may have to put my hobby on the side. My blog may have started as a hobby, but now it’s more of a glorified hobby. How many hobbies are there where you get paid to write bad things about people? What ho!
I was going to do a Golden Globes: What Are They Wearing – since I love award ceremonies, and dressy skinny people. But I found something more important to blog about: beautiful men.
I plan to also extol on the virtues of aesthetically pleasing males seen during MFW in a future post but there is something else, or someone else that has caught my attention.
You may remember my post about fashion’s latest gimmick, AZN models. I’ve just seen the beautiful new ASIAN face of Louis Vuitton SS11, Godfrey Gao. (The title of the blog post refers to one of his movies which I am sooooooooooo getting from Amazon).
The company doesn’t break down its sales by gender, but according to other reports, men spent more than women on luxury goods in China last year. Indeed, a walk through any major Chinese city’s business district shows that the Louis Vuitton brand is popular: As Mr. Gao appears in the brand’s advertisement, the LV man bag — worn across the body, of course — is a standard status symbol among men, especially middle-age ones.
Mr. Gao may be part of a greater trend of Asian models on the rise. Luxury labels now feature more Asian faces in their ad campaigns and on the runway. Chinese model Liu Wen signed a contract in November to be the new “face” of beauty company Estée Lauder. (A cosmetics contract is considered by some to be the “Holy Grail” of modeling.)
He is buff, he is Asian, there’s more about him in the link below, but all I want to do is gape at his sexy sexy self. I find it a bit depressing that LV looked to an Asian model just to target their Chinese market, rather than have him shortlisted as just one of their models to front a campaign, not just because he’s taps into a huge luxury market.
via: The Fashion Spot, WSJ, & Lifestyle Asia
