Twink No More

Talk about all the news that fit to print, today's New York Times features an in-depth article on the latest trends in male models.  It seems that the undernourished, faux-tough, boy models typlified by Chris Winter (the skinny kid with the bad tattoos) are sooo last season.  Now that we're in a recession, people want their male models to be real men, or at least look the part like hunky Doug Porter, the guy in the picture with actual chest hair.  An excerpt: 

“The twink thing seems over,” said Jim Nelson, the editor of GQ. “When people open GQ, I don’t want them to feel like they’re looking at clothes on 16-year-olds.”


Now that's a fashion trend I can get behind.  Read it all here.