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Disko-Kandi -- I couldn't find the full article from Wallpaper online but I will type it up and let you guys see it...meanwhile here's another article on the same isse - Tom Ford related
| quote: | FOR 15 years having a hairy chest has given a man all the sex appeal of a gorilla.
Throughout the 90s, if you had a chest rug you weren't seen as a sex god, more as walrus-sized singing god Demis Roussos.
Men with well-endowed chests were forced to hide their shameful growth under a polo-neck jumper or tightly buttoned-up shirt.
A carpet of hair had all the stigma of a third nipple, so tell-tale tufts that sprouted from an unbuttoned collar were rigorously tweezed out of existence.
But now the hairy chest is back.
Tom Ford, head of ultra-chic fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, has used a follically blessed man to advertise his latest fragrance, M7.
The model, like Mr Ford himself, is undeniably gorgeous.
He's handsome, smouldering - and sports a crop of hair on his torso that a farmer would be proud of. He's proof that the "perfect" Calvin Klein models who embodied the 90s are yesterday's men.
After being the height of fashion during the 70s and early 80s, it all went downhill fast for hairy chested men.
First we said good-bye to Tom Selleck's bristling chest and Hawaiian shirts when Magnum PI went off the air in 1988.
Just over a year later Baywatch and its smooth-bodied life guards hit our screens and then the hairless Chippendales began stripping to hoards of screaming women.
Sales of depilatory cream soared. Some chaps even took to swallowing their pride and crossed the threshold of beauty salons in the quest for the perfectly waxed smooth chest.
But the image for the new Millennium is all about being down to earth and natural and accepting things the way they really are.
If anyone knows how to start a trend it's Tom Ford, the creative director of the Gucci Group and possibly the world's most influential man when it comes to fashion.
He has just announced that "natural bush" is more masculine and I think he's absolutely right to put hairy chests on the fashion map again. For me, chest hair signals virility.
After all, if you think about it, what could be sexier than a man with a thick, sensuous down on his front?
You can run your fingers through it, tweak it playfully and snuggle up to it on a cold night.
Hey, if you get bored in bed you can even try and plait it.
But the key is a real woman wants a real, grown-up man, not an immature wimp with a chest like a pre-pubescent boy.
Picture all the men with chest rugs - and those without. How do they compete?
In the 70s and early 80s when I was growing up chest hair was the only fashion accessory for a man.
I fell in love with men like Sean Connery - in his prime the sexiest James Bond, George Best, Starsky and Hutch. They were cool, dangerous and sexy - and they all wore their shagpile chests with pride.
Tom Jones is another. He may not be my type but you can't deny his magnetic appeal to women.
I do draw the line at medallions, though. While 70s chest hair may be fashionable again, a hunk of gold metal nestling in it isn't.
Today there is a new army of hirsute men who send women weak at the knees.
George Clooney, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen, Robbie Williams and Ryan Giggs - to my mind they represent some of the sexiest creatures on the planet. Their animal-like chest hair hints at the beast within. Contrast with bare chested Leonardo di Caprio, yesterday's heart-throb.
And although singer Justin Hawkins may have won Brit awards with The Darkness, his skinny hairless body won't win any prizes for sex appeal.
Orlando Bloom may send the pulses of teenage girls racing but who wants a man who's safe and non-threatening enough to appeal to the under 16s?
And then there's Peter Andre - enough said.
A few years ago I went to see The Chippendales. Their bodies were honed to perfection and their chests, like the rest of their bodies, were as smooth as marble and glistening with oil. But I found them as sexy as a Barbie doll. They were pretend men, who summed up what blokes wrongly think women want. They weren't genuine rug and ready men.
There's something quite devil-may-care about the sort of chap who doesn't give a toss about a few hairs sprouting from around his nipple region.
And leaving a hairy chest au naturel hides a multitude of flaws and flab if a man doesn't like to work out.
By contrast you have to wonder about a chap who is vain enough to become obsessed with maintaining a baby soft chest.
I want a man to lavish his time and money on me, not spend hours and his hard-earned cash at a beauty salon. I don't want a bloke who knows the ins and outs of waxing better than I do.
And who would want to commit to a man whose chest is smoother than her legs? Think of the pressure to keep your stubble at bay.
In my opinion the only downside to having a hairy chest is that it must take an age to apply sun cream and you risk an excruciating DIY depilatory treatment putting on a zip up top.
So, if a charming smooth- chested beast swept me off my feet, would I turn him away? Of course I wouldn't.
Ultimately the sexiest men are those who are comfortable and confident in their own skin, whether it's home to a forest of follicles or not.
In any case, while a real woman may prefer men with chest hair, she's also mature enough to look beyond the surface.
Unlike the 90s men and women who thought only a smooth chest was best.
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