Second-hand Rose / She's wearing second-hand clothes

Bebe Sahara Benet, a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Some of us here at The Next in Line, wrestling with dissertation deadlines and mid-winter blues, have found relief in an unlikely source: the Logo show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Some people have described it as a parody of the typical reality-TV show competition. But there’s actually little [...]

Hype: Diva Compex

Premature hype, but I noticed some other bloggers posting about this, so I’ll say it as well: I’ll be one of the contributors to a book of essays, forthcoming in 2009 from Univ. of Wisconsin Press, called Diva Complex.
Diva Complex: Gay Men on the Women Who Shaped Their Lives, an anthology edited by Michael Montlack, [...]

Like a Prayer

Shoes!

Tilda Swinton’s date to the Met’s Costume-Institute-gala-whatever was . . . Justin Bond.

Knowing when to care

Words of wisdom from Michael Roberts (on the right), who styled or unstyled the Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair photoshoot.
If you get too involved with magazines, it’s soul-destroying, but if you get too involved with books, it’s fabulous. If you get superficially involved with magazines, it’s fine, you can just let it go. But if you get [...]

Sean Avery and the gay press

A post on the gay blog Towleroad about Sean Avery, “the most hated figure in hockey,” has got me thinking. Avery is an obnoxious Rangers player (I gather) who has a strong interest in fashion — to such a degree that he’s secured a summer internship at Vogue. Not Men’s Vogue, not Vogue Living, but [...]

Protocol to be a RocaWear model?*

On her blog and in the Times, Cathy Horyn wrote recently about the Marc Jacobs–Juergen Teller partnership. Juergen is a photographer of the Helmut Newton school. His photographs, taken with an on-camera flash, are neither sharp, beautifully composed, nor beautifully anything. But they are smart and knowing. They set an illicit mood that is ever-so-slightly [...]

Project Oneway

The opening look of Christian’s runway show.
The last few posts have been rather sour and heady, so I thought I’d throw out some candy.
I’m a total Project Runway addict — or “Pwoject Oneway” as I’ve started calling it for no apparent reason — despite not having cable TV. I watch it on the computer (don’t [...]

Skimmy

Cathy Horyn, by far my favorite Times writer, just posted about the aforementioned L’Wren Scott necklace on her Times blog, On the Runway. She also posts a great frontal shot of Kidman’s dress, where you get a gander at the neckline from the front. Does it evoke Madame X hedonism or Anouk Aimee hauteur? I [...]

Balenciaga

When I saw the bodice of Nicole Kidman’s gown during Sunday’s Academy Awards, I immediately flashed on John Singer Sargent’s famous painting of Madame X. (No novel thought, that. Years ago, Steven Meisel plugged Kidman into the Madame X mise-en-scene for a Vogue editorial; she wore a somewhat frowsy velvet ocher number, if I [...]

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