Joao A.

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Héctor T.

Hi John :)

John Y.

Allowing fashion to take the lead in how we think and look is about as ridicules as allowing a drug addict to run a pharmacy. Fashion should be a reflection of society but all too often we are swallowed up by trends, the hype, and the constant brainwashing that bombard our every waking moment. And, for the most part I really don't have too much of an objection with the fashion industry telling us what to wear; as a photographer I am often if not always the worst dressed person in the studio. What I do have a problem with however is that the fashion industry is trying to redefine our sense of who we are and our sexuality. I should restate that and say that we as individuals have given the fashion industry too much power to control our lives by allowing them to define what it is to be a man. If you need any example of how dangerous it is to allow fashion designers to set our standards you need only look at the "skin and bone" starving female models who are losing their lives to eating disorders. These women are victims of a fashion industry that has used them and when nothing is left of their body and soul the industry will toss their famished malnourished bodies out with the trash.
Oh well you say its' all too bad about the mistakes of the women but at least a man is still a man. Wrong! I have watched the slow but steady feminization of male models as fashion designers force their warped ideas into our culture. Gone now is the man’s man with his look of ruggedness, his toughness and the sense of security and protectiveness that his strong masculine look suggested that he could provide to his wife and children. The divorce rate and a judicial system that favors the rights of the mother have produced generation upon generation of boys raised into manhood by women. And the fashion industry always ready to project itself into our culture and minds has convinced us now that for men to look fashionable they must first shed their masculinity. We have boys with eye liner, bracelets, ear rings, primping with hair products, lotions and the final emasculation…”skinny jeans” just like moms.
The process is complete and as mothers have raised their sons to be daughters the fashion industry has pounced upon these poor misguided boys like a hungry cat to a mouse. Skinny boys dressed like girls that lack male role models, women raising men, divorce, fathers disconnected from their sons have all made “unisex” our cultural mantra. Men shaving their legs, shaving their chest, shaving under their arms removing every happy trail of masculinity until their hairless and naked genitalia hang exposed and as ugly as a hairless cat.
In remembrance of a better time, when men roared like the king of beast and smelled of sweat, hard work and pride I give you the following photos I call “Ode To The Happy Trail”