SEXBOMBS Vol 1 Golden Boys. (With Excerpt from Book)
In this edition (the first of four) we revisit the compelling mystery of the male sex symbol in a lavish fashion. The lives and legends of Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, Elvis Presley, Harrison Ford, Clark, Gable Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Rudolph Valentino, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Jim Morrison, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Sidney Poitier, Muhammad Ali, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Tom Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, George Clooney, Mick Jagger.
The men we want even if we don't like them (Robbie Williams); we look at them even if we want to look away (Antonio Banderas): and we especially want them if they seem a tiny bit seedy (Colin Farrell) or smug (George Clooney) or just plain...dark, moody difficult and hostile (Clive Owens, Sean Penn, Marlon Brando). And many qualities appeal equally to men as they do to women. A gay icon and a gay sex symbol can share a mainstream hetero following (James Dean) because men and women are drawn to the same spark. It would be convenient to compare the greatest sex symbols to Greek Gods and some actually looked like them, especially Paul Newman, but a keener truth seems to be that we fancy our love gods deeply flawed.
What is it that makes a man so sexy he is known not just as an actor or a rock star but also as a global sex symbol? One is tempted to say: a square jaw, but Jack Nicholson's face is anything but symmetrical. Another assumption might be that sex comes by the pound...of beefcake. But how does that explain the snake hips and bare chests of Johnny Depp, Michael Hutchence and Jonathan Rhy-Myers? The term hunk, seems a bit dated once we have seen the likes of 80s action heroes such as Travolta and Willis go to serous seed. But that has not stopped Hollywood from attempting to inflate certain actors, bulking up the biceps and torsos of Hugh Jackman and Orlando Bloom. Sadly muscles are not a definite sell: because when aquiline or baby faced features are grafted onto hard bodies the fit doesn't sizzle. It fizzles, or worse goes flaccid.
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer foundation and Fashion Industry Broadcast's New Global Publishing Series Launch.
The global and highly prestigious Fashion Targets Breast Cancer foundation (which is licensed in Australia by the National Breast Cancer Foundation) in conjunction with global publishing house Fashion Industry Broadcast has launched a new global publishing operation.
Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publishing house specializing in lifestyle coffee table books, e-books and innovative Apps for mobile devices. FIB is a division of the Branding Establishment Group.
The first of seven series' are being launched in October. The SEXBOMBS series of of four titles chronicles the history of the sex symbol in contemporary culture. The four editions;
SEXBOMBS Vol 1 Golden Boys" ISBN 978-0-9808184-4-4
SEXBOMBS Vol 2 Sirens" ISBN 978-0-9808184-7-5
SEXBOMBS Vol 3 Sex Kittens" ISBN 978-0-9808184-9-9
SEXBOMBS Vol 4Young Guns" ISBN 978-0-9808184-8-2
Each of the four edition in series one is available as 280 page hard cover coffee table books available through better book sellers and Amazon RRP $39.99, e-book versions available through all major e-book sites like Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iBooks, Google books etc... RRP $9.99, and Apps for mobile devices via Apple, Google and Amazon App stores RRP $6.99. Plans are also well advanced to translate the Content into a TV documentary series in 2012.
