GQ Brazil taps into the vast pot of top Brazilian male models for a perfect fall editorial by Richard Phibbs. Featuring the season’s best black pieces by Armani, Calvin Klein, Dior Homme and Hugo Boss, as styled by Antonio Branco, the images prove that once again, there’s nothing like menswear as worn by real men. Who is YOUR favorite Brazilian face?

Arthur Sales and Diego Miguel

Leo Peixoto and Andre Ziehe

Romulo Pires and Thiago Ribeiro

Marlon Teixeira and Evandro Soldati

The new issue of Client hits out with two special covers featuring Jordan Coulter & River Viiperi looking divine in black and white; the dual covers shot by Karl Simone and Saverio Cardia, represent the elegant yet edgy look the magazine is all about. Inside Client’s pages the focus is on luxurious menswear with Chiun-Kai Shih shooting an exclusive preview of Tom Ford’s latest collection.

Jordan Coulter

Jules Hamilton

Arthur Sales

River Viiperi

Arthur Sales. Ph: Milan Vukmirovic for L’Officiel Hommes S/S 10

L’Officiel, that is.. Arthur Sales, the 19 year old Brazilian beauty has 200 pages and the cover of the latest L’Officiel Hommes. Milan Vukmirovic’s last couple of special issues devoted to solo young men were Jon Kortajarena and Andres Velencoso Segura, models with super staying power. Carrying a whole magazine requires an engaging intensity, chameleon like beauty and the ability to model one’s socks off. Looks like there’s a new sheriff in town.

The young men of the season’s liveliest party have been revealed. We recognize Thomas Hoefnagels, Sebastian Lund, former MOTW Vincent Dienst and Andrea Petri for D&G S/S 10 by Mario Testino. Readers, help us out with the 5th young man. (image courtesy of IMM Bruxelles).

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Modeling:
Lily Cole talks about the making of Dr. Parnassus.

I did a quick interview about the modeling industry for my friend, photographer Lara Rossignol. Lara is a true professional, having shot everyone from Johnny Depp and Liv Tyler to Jermaine Dupre.

She is not the Jersey Shore, that’s for sure! Model Jacquelyn Jablonski‘s on The NY Times Nifty 50.

Made in Brazil said it first.. Arthur Sales would be major… and here’s the first of much to come.

Fashion and photography:
Venetia Scott is one of our favorite stylists out there.. here is a fantastic interview she did with Ponystep. What an insight into her world.

Douglas Perrett‘s malendar (male calendar) is really too cute with some of the top up and coming straight male photographers, including Sebastian Kim and Dan Martensen. Buy it here.

Tsk, tsk.. just more tsk from us for Ms. Lindsay Lohan about her straight out copying of up and coming designer Jen Kao and her dress for Lindsay’s new line, especially as Lindsay was photographed wearing Jen’s dress a month ago. As my little girl would say: Not Nice!

Miscellaneous:
And in case you haven’t heard… Lady Gaga is the new creative director of Polaroid. If she can’t get our beloved Polaroid into the modern era, we don’t know who can.

In the NY Times’ story about MDC’s special preview of V’s size issue, one of the funniest comments was this person who called Karl Lagerfeld a “vacuous, vapid, old parvenu”.

No one does bathing suits better than the Brazilians (say THAT 5 times fast). Our friends at Butch sent us pictures of their new campaign (yes it is summer down there) with hot new face Arthur Sales photographed by Cristiano Madureira. Check out Get Butch for a 4-minute video of Arthur, as well as a video of the runway show at Fashion Rio back in June, which was loaded with new boys from Brazil. If you can drag your eyes away from Arthur’s perfection, you’ll see that the suits are perfect for that vacation in Rio you are planning right about now.

Arthur Sales/EP Models Brazil. Photos by Cristiano Madureira, courtesy of Made In Brazil.
Arriving this week is the amazing Arthur Sales from Recife, Brazil. Made in Brazil’s Juliano who has been tracking him since Arthur walked the DSquared show back in June, calls him one of the best Brazilian kids in a long time. Onset he is apparently like Caroline Trentini reincarnated as a guy. For more pics, click here. (with Elite Milan)

Dynamic duo: Marc Jacobs and Juergen Teller; Interview reviews the Marc Jacobs advertising book and for more Juergen fans, Cathyn Horyn talks to Juergen Teller.

Watch Karl Lagerfeld shoot Baptiste Giabiconi for Purple Fashion, with a giraffe and what looks like his cell phone. See some of his editorial here.

More Baptiste news, Naomi Campbell is envious of him!!

Here’s video of Jourdan Dunn and Chanel Iman from the i-D shoot. They talk about the pressures of being an ethnic model in this industry. The video is amazing, watch the girls work it, i-D’s signature winks and all, while Edward Enninful talks about the beauties.

More MTA’s (model turned actor). This time, it’s a male model, Trevor Donovan, who has shot D&G with Steven Klein and A&F with Bruce Weber and is on the next 90210.

WWD calls it the return of the “himbo” but mistakenly calls it a Numero shoot by Karl Lagerfeld, when it REALLY should be Lara Stone and the boys’ DSquared campaign by Mert and Marcus… Hmph, if they need help with boys they can certainly call us.. We know all the top males there is to know.

Supreme’s showcards reverberate down in Australia.

Mariano Vivanco shoots Megan Fox for Wonderland Magazine. She’s one of the few actresses that look like they could have been a model, especially in this moody shoot. See pics and behind the scenes video.

September’s Vogue Italia editorial by Steven Meisel has re-energized and re-invigorated me in a way that no editorial has done in a long time. The messiness, the fun, the contorted faces, the in your face energy is completely exuberant and what we need during these dour times. Vive la revolution!
For the entire ed, scanned by the lovely Diciassette, see Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

Sessilee Lopez and model. Photo: Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia