So drag queen is an understatement (see: Candy Magazine, below) -- Lady G is 100% synthetic -- pastiche with the backing peeled off. It looks like the physical structure of her face is completely different from shot to shot. Nobody knows what madam really looks like! Just think about the shot where she's shown topless from the back: it's ...

Launched by Luis Venegas (editor of Magateen, among many others) Candy Magazine layers itself over all things drag / queer / trans / body modified - a fantastic frenzy. The first issue is super-limited, only 1000 copies, and the project itself has more than a minor shroud of mystery. Watch the first issue's trailer here; it's shoot footage, s...

Jodorowsky, acid mystic, scholar, director of El Topo and The Magic Mountain, discusses the "original and secret" Marseille tarot.

I once wrote in QVEST magazin, that I would always prefer LANVIN over BALMAIN, living in LA now, I am forced to change my mind. I never saw so many Balmain dresses in the streets (or in the Malibu shops) and every time I see them (combined with those Balmain shoes) i just want to steal them from the "person" that is wearing them. Why is that? I...

Writing about fragrances is normally dominated by the need to please powerful advertising clients. In their book "Perfumes. The A-Z guide" the authors Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez write with profound knowledge, refreshing lack of respect and a remarkable dash of wit about basically every perfume they could get their hands and noses on. I admit ...

Precious didn't wow me. Sure the movie is worth seeing, the story is one of a kind, but Lee Daniels' film adaptation of the ghetto-novella by Sapphire ends up being more manipulative than moving (Daniels falls back on easy, indie devices to try to strengthen his message). What I really liked in the film wasn't Precious, the 350 pound illiterate ...

We wear uniforms. Now, the wearing of uniforms simultaneously humiliates and exalts us. We look like unfree people, and that is possibly a disgrace, but we also look nice in our uniforms, and that sets us apart from the deep disgrace of those people who walk around in their very own clothes but in torn and dirty ones. To me, for instance, weari...

Once I talked to a woman under the arches of St. Peter’s Basilica. She spoke French to me, a very archaic form. She had this extraordinary nose. I said, “What are you doing here?”‬ “Oh, I’m waiting for the Pope to come out.” “Oh, the Pope’s going to come out. That’ll be great.”‬ She said, “Yes. I’m waiting for the Pope to come out beca...