I love GQ.  I have probably bought more GQ or Details (which is GQ owned) magazines in my life than Cosmo or Elle.  For some reason, the idea of fixing American mens’ fashion, which so often need fixing, is appealing to me.  

I also love GQ because it contains men’s fashion ads with male models posing in beautiful designer clothes.  Perhaps this love is a result of a constant objectification of the opposite sex, but can anyone say new additions to the Wilde’s hot guy wall?  

GQ also comments on the fashions seen in those ads.  Their magazines and website are chock full of useful, practical, and not too “fabulous” style tips that any college (gasp!) or recent college grad could and should use in dressing for work, the weekend, a date, special occasion, etc.  

The online slideshow that prompted this outspoken admiration is called “Get Framed! A GQ Guide to Glasses.”  Anyone who knows me knows I love glasses.  Real or fake, wire or plastic rimmed, it doesn’t matter.  A guy, for some reason, is made instantly cuter with glasses and GQ offers men options.  There’s black frames, tortoise frames, clear frames, but they make clear that they’re not joking around.  These glasses are for the guys brave enough to try them out and it’s great that GQ believes there those man enough to rock the daring look.

GQ has a ton of online content and you can check it here: http://www.gq.com/style.

-KP

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HBO’s new show “How to Make it in America” is the East Coast answer to “Entourage” that leaves the fantasy world of LA parties, quick fame, and booze and drugs behind for, well, parties, a desire for fame, and booze and drugs.

Ben Epstein is the protagonist - a Fashion Institute of Technology dropout who works in the men’s department at Barney’s (he must to afford the designer plaid, chocolate brown leather jacket, and obviously expensive jeans he constantly wears).

Ben and his ambitious but roughish-around-the-edges friend Cam have discovered their ideal hustle: designing jeans.  Inspired by New York City in the 1970s, they want to create a brand, Crisp Jeans NYC, based on the punk and early hip-hop movements.  They don’t have a business plan, but something makes you think they just might be able to pull it off-they score a meeting with John Varvatos after meeting him at a swanky cocktail party.

I am definitely an East Coast girl which might explain why I fell immediately in love with “How to Make it in America”.  Sure, “Entourage” is glamorous, a rags-to-riches tale, and exciting, but HTMIIA tells the story of guys I could see on the street.  Granted, they seem to walk out of a Detail’s Bloomingdales ad, but considering Ben went to FIT, I don’t know how unreasonable that really is.

This show also brings many of our favorite things together.  Beyond being an East Coast version of “Entourage”, it is also the hipster version.  The styling, their teeny-tiny loft apartments, art gallery parties, prevalence of skateboarding, and frequent pop culture references (Cobra Starship played in the first five minutes, Nylon has been mentioned more than once, and they are celebrating a model friend’s landing of a J.Crew campaign) scream of HBO’s desire to capture the hip, trendy crowd that is just that bit too young to have started watching “Entourage” when the first season aired six years ago.

Check out the New York Times review here and HBO’s website to listen to the great music in each show.

-KP