March for me always begins that inexplicable stretch towards summer. Last year on this very date I received the image above in my email box because we were doing a shoot for the “water issue” of the magazine I was working on. It’s a shot by photographer Bell Soto, who has shot lots and lots of images for the oversized coffee table magazine Blue out of Australia, including this image of Kyle Carlson, one of the infamous Carlson Twins. Not a bad job if you can get it. Imho, Bell will get really big in the fashion world.
March is when all the spring fashion magazines hit the stand with the summer clothes in them — bathing suits, shorts, light colored suits. Now that the grocery strike is finally finished after five months of misery (I refuse to be a scab), I’ve decided to stop eating out so much and go back on the low-carb diet that caused me to lose 30 pounds four years ago. Now, I haven’t gained all that back, so I guess it works, but I was heavy at the time. All I can say is, eat lots of chicken and turkey.
I used to go down to Miami Beach around this time of year when I was in my circuit days, but that has pretty much ended for the better. When I saw this article on the renovation of the Versace Mansion on Ocean Drive, however, it sort of gave me an itch to head down to South Beach and see what’s going on there these days. I know that the Winter Music Conference starts very soon, and I attended that once. Extremely hetero for the most part, but those straight clubbers are nothing if not tolerant. And every DJ worth his gold attends it.
This is the strangest piece of fashion news that I’ve heard lately. Apparently, Alec Baldwin’s closet fantasy is to play the late fashion designer Halston on screen. He tells the St. Louis Dispatch, “Here’s a man who watched his 50’s, closeted, ‘Boys in the Band’-era gay culture dissolve under the weight of AIDs and become militant. By the 80’s he was surrounded by younger men he was dating and sleeping with who were the new gay, completely out there and completely outspoken. And like all groups who need federal dollars to solve a problem, they were very political. AIDs made homosexuality political. I’m not anything like this guy — I’m not gay, I don’t know about fabrics and textiles — yet I am dying to play this man!”
Well that’s why it’s called acting Alec.
Incidentally, this model, also off the cover of Blue is a trainer at Crunch in L.A., so if you’re looking for some abdominal inspiration or a great trainer, ask for Corey. He’s a real nice guy too.
