Some preliminary ads from my fashion shoot for Marc Jacobs Clothing:

[MLeonard]

hello again everyone!!!!

so, recently i had a shoot for some magazine ads for the fashion designer marc jacobs (marcjacobs.com) he's very big right now and if you haven't seen his clothes and are into fashion, you should realy check them out. the shoot was a month or so ago and this weekend the agency e-mailed me some of the shots they were thinking of using... everything is kind of up in the air right now and i'm not sure which magazines/regions these might turn up in. i'm pretty sure it will be limited to the UK or Europe... but possibly America if things go well ...so be on the lookout!

[MLeonard]

and another:

[Ted Striker]

congrats

who's that other dude

[MLeonard]

his name is dan. we hadn't known each other before the shoot...
for the most part they put us together for contrast. just kind of the way things worked out i guess.

[Ted Striker]

Are you two supposed to be a couple in those shots?

First shot

Second shot

[MLeonard]

the fashion scene as a whole right now is very ambgiuous in regards to sexuality... even in abercrombie and fitch ads there is some boy on boy action... but i don't think the idea was necessarily for us to be a couple.

i like the first pic a lot better too. the agency mentioned that they would most likely use the first one if anything at all.

[Ted Striker]

So is this something you set out to do, or is it something that just sort of happened?

[MLeonard]

there was a walk on shoot casting call in boston. they took preliminary pictures and then sent them out to various agencies. apparently my look was what they were looking for so i got called back a week after for this shoot.

[Ted Striker]

nice work

[monolith94]

I have trouble finding a job in Iowa, and he gets to be a model in Boston...

Funny how things turn out in life.

[Asher]

Originally posted by MLeonard
the fashion scene as a whole right now is very ambgiuous in regards to sexuality... even in abercrombie and fitch ads there is some boy on boy action... but i don't think the idea was necessarily for us to be a couple.

A&F specifically marketed towards gay people when it was first started, and it's still very popular among gay people (hence why so many of their adds are blatantly homoerotic). The main idea was that gay people were hip and leaders of fashion ( ), so if they targeted them soon many more people would wear it...

And that first pic is great.

[MLeonard]

Originally posted by Asher

A&F specifically marketed towards gay people when it was first started, and it's still very popular among gay people (hence why so many of their adds are blatantly homoerotic). The main idea was that gay people were hip and leaders of fashion ( ), so if they targeted them soon many more people would wear it...

And that first pic is great.

thanks!

yeah, the A&F phenomenon is so interesting given the variety of people that wear it. everyone from butch lesbians to flamboyant gay guys and then the toughest jocks you'll ever see.
go figure.