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The Giabiconi Gambit
November 1st, 2011 Kevin comments (38)Well on his way to becoming a household name, Baptiste Giabiconi has given us many outrageously, over the top moments in the past three years. Here are 10 shining Giabiconi highlights, in high fashion (and not), throughout the years.
Humble Beginnings
We were treated with just a taste of what Baptiste could really do in the March 2009 issue of Vogue Paris
Barbie Girl
Chanel’s collaboration with doll retailer Barbie brought yet another side out of Baptiste. Spring 2009
Purple
After that earlier Vogue Paris teaser, Baptiste gave us everything in his editorial for Purple Fashion and left very little to the imagination. Fall 2009
Peel & Reveal
Readers were able to pull back the interactive cover of Wallpaper Magazine to reveal a clothes-less version of the newsstand issue. Fall 2009
Icon in the Making
Embodying some of the icons of the music industry for L’Officiel China, photos by Xian Sun. Spring 2010
Showtime
Baptiste takes a venture into the music industry with his video debut for his single “Showtime”. Watch him take a bow and be a singing motorcycle hero. (Buy his single “Showtime” here)
Showing that he can pull off just about any look, Baptiste is be-wigged by Thomas Lohr for Dansk. Spring 2011
Magnum
Baptiste immortalized in chocolate by Karl Lagerfeld. Need we say more? Spring 2011
Danse Avec Les Stars – Tango
Baptiste’s latest venture: reality television for France’s version of Dancing with the Stars. Spoiler alert: he ends up shirtless and covered in glitter
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November 1st, 2011
at 12:09 pm
geez i wonder how much $$ MDC get to try to make this boy toy happen.
is really sad!
n how in the world,JON K is not in the Icon list? i mean n we have this “model”
is ridiculous!
MDC is not whatit used to be (*_i) SMH
November 1st, 2011
at 12:11 pm
That tired i am of this face and always with his designer to the side.
November 1st, 2011
at 12:19 pm
Aww Kevin, I love this. Baptiste forever slays!
November 1st, 2011
at 12:42 pm
He will always be the real life Zoolander to me. I just can’t take him seriously for some reason.
November 1st, 2011
at 1:09 pm
Cool!
Great pictures , also don’t miss Baptiste for paris-match :
http://faline120.blogspot.com/2011/03/baptiste-giabiconi-by-alexis-mcdrew-for.html
photo by alexis mcdrew and stylism remi felipe
Oliveir
November 1st, 2011
at 1:11 pm
Never understood his appeal. Fashion is faces, not dirty pillows. You say Giabiconi, I say Nessman. You say Gandy, I say O’pry. It’s sad what an unimpressive model can do with the help of Lagerfeld.
November 1st, 2011
at 1:27 pm
Whydoes this guy get so much publicity? His face is ordinary!
November 1st, 2011
at 1:28 pm
Delusional…
November 1st, 2011
at 1:53 pm
Lol I agree with you all, but I can somewhat appreciate Baptiste. He doesn’t seem so versatile because of his consistent work with Lagerfeld (which sometimes seems so redundant), but that IS his ‘standout’; being Lagerfelds Numero Uno. I think Jon K work is way more prolific, and inspiring, as I do with many other men who have been working for many seasons. I will say that Baptiste does have a ‘thing’ that makes him interesting, but I still wouldn’t say Icon-worthy.
November 1st, 2011
at 2:51 pm
AJ, what is SMH mean?
November 1st, 2011
at 4:06 pm
he really has to thank mr karl
November 1st, 2011
at 4:25 pm
He is totally a Zoolander’s model. Yes he is beautiful, but sofisticated? I don´t think so.
November 1st, 2011
at 5:52 pm
Embarrassing.
November 1st, 2011
at 5:52 pm
He’s like the haute version of jersey shore. I have to admit that while he has little modelling talent(much like most of his male collegues)he has managed to thrust himself into the consciousnes of the general public, something that models, male or female, find hard to accomplish these days. If he keeps Karls favour and develops his brand in pop culture he might become famous.
November 1st, 2011
at 6:09 pm
Only the first image is good. The rest are, well, icky.
November 1st, 2011
at 7:14 pm
Yeah, he is an icon because Karl Lagerfelds IS! Shame!!!
November 2nd, 2011
at 2:07 am
People are freakin blind seriously he is a very beautiful man no doubt he just doesnt have much fashion sense and dresses like a 15 year old American boy thats all. His appeal is in his feminine elegant face that screeeams high fashion. His appeal is just masked by his poor choice in style.
November 2nd, 2011
at 2:53 am
LOL at Baptiste as Lady Gaga!!
i don’t get how is he in the Top Icons and not Jon K, Noah Mills, David Gandy or Mathias L.
if you guys don’t want to remove other people, why don’t you just extend the list?
.
November 2nd, 2011
at 4:30 am
i love Lulus comment. Good one! I am sorry but MDC stop this campagin.of permoting Baptiste. The real Versatile models are models like Mathias, Sean O pry, Jon k, and many other guys i can list here but they have never got mentioned on MDC. you guys have become very commercial.. Its a shame! And Baptiste is not a great model, his looks are cheap..
November 2nd, 2011
at 4:30 am
This post does not make sense, is only sad and ridiculous.
November 2nd, 2011
at 12:44 pm
@ Nik it means
Shaking My Head. SMH
shaking the head from the left to right
like saying No,no cant beleive it. or something like that lol
but yeah 80 % of the post agreed that he is just no Icon Material!
November 2nd, 2011
at 2:27 pm
he looks like a fucking raccoon or like crash bandicoot
November 2nd, 2011
at 2:37 pm
that music video is incredibly tacky…
November 2nd, 2011
at 3:53 pm
I’ve heard worse music, watched cheesier videos, seen better looking models, but have a look around you, be it in New Jersey or New Delhi, this guy’s appeal is immediate with all the common straight or gay boys who think the good life is about jetting to Miami for a weekend and Ibiza the next in golden belts and D&G shirts, and who couldn’t name a single cause being addressed at ‘Occupy Wall Street’, and couldn’t care less. So yeah, his appeal is spot on and huge, whether I, you or anybody else likes it or not.
November 2nd, 2011
at 5:09 pm
awful
November 2nd, 2011
at 5:55 pm
The Baptiste hate is getting a tad ridiculous. Let it go children, it’s not that serious.
“He looks like this, and like that”. Quite frankly, at the end of the day – I’m pretty sure he looks better than most of if not all of you!(to entertain the vanity). Give it a rest.
He does his thing. He’s not neccessarily the quintessential male model icon of yore but he’s quite a persona, a risk taker and someone who has a real lust for life. Things to be celebrated!! This negativity has got to stop.
Alot of successful models and many of us in our respective areas owe gratitude to someone in some way, shape or form. Would you like a biscuit now?
I truly believe that Baptiste would have been alright without Karl had he taken the usual path. Karl simply allowed him to be himself in an unsual light, that’s all. I bet you’d all be lovin’ him right about now him had he went about his career in a more austere manner.
He’s a good guy, let him live – and I would suggest doing the same.
November 3rd, 2011
at 12:00 am
Nigel,
Hear hear! (tips hat to you)
Betty
MDC
November 3rd, 2011
at 3:00 am
Nigel, you summed it up perfectly. seriously. The hate that is expressed by many is just plain ridiculous.
November 3rd, 2011
at 3:59 am
Lol, everyone hates him…
November 3rd, 2011
at 5:19 am
ben stiller looks better than him
November 3rd, 2011
at 9:08 am
Baptiste is still young, let him enjoy what he is doing… it sure seems he’s having fun! Plus, he is the male face of Chanel…hello!!!!
November 3rd, 2011
at 9:35 am
Never got it! Ordinary and cross eyed!
November 3rd, 2011
at 11:39 am
Rather than to negatively critique the model, I suggest that criticism be directed toward the photographer/directors. The model is in their hands for better or worse. I’d like to see Baptiste seen through the lens of a talent that doesn’t just treat him as a pretty boy toy.
November 3rd, 2011
at 1:24 pm
“Baptiste immortalized in chocolate by Karl Lagerfeld”
Sorry, I almost threw up with that filth image. Batiste in chocolate is totaly bad taste.
November 3rd, 2011
at 1:32 pm
Sorry, if Baptiste Giabiconi is an icon model, Jesus Luz needs to be an icon also, because they belong in the same level and concept of “model”.
November 3rd, 2011
at 2:07 pm
Whoever was the ‘Lily’ commenting before, it wasn’t me.
Anyway, I think the hatred here for Batiste spawns from the fact that he was kept #1 on the male list for ages and is now the icons list.
Don’t blame the poor guy, don’t blame Karl, blame MDC.
November 4th, 2011
at 9:17 am
He is the Sarah Palin of male models……..
November 10th, 2011
at 12:57 am
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