Laucas Garcez: The Interview

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Lucas Garcez: “I like to work with photographers that let u free to express your atitude, your feeling toward the cam”

Hello everyone, I'm Lucas Garcez, 23 years old. I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, but I grew up in Vinhedo (famous for the good quality wines), a small town 1 hour away from São Paulo and I also visit my dad in Santos, the city where he lives, located in the coast of São Paulo State. 

I think u guys are familiar with this city cause that´s the place where my bud Ed (the brazilian editor of World of Models) lives too. Since I was a kid I´ve been into the fashion world. I remember my first job when I was 6 years old for Fathers Day ad in Iguatemi mall São Paulo, I still have this picture ! My dad used to be a model before, so he used to tell me to keep doing that. He helped me and taught me so much about modeling. And he always support me about my decisions.

Making good friends around the world

I´m in New York now working and the best thing about modeling is to travel around the world and have the opportunity to live in different countries, see different cultures and also meet so many people, not just meet them, but also make good friends that u can keep for the whole life. There is no better experience than this.

Working with photographers? posed naked already?

I like to work with photographers that let u free to express your atitude, your feeling toward the cam. A picture is not just the model, you have a teamwork behind working to achieve the best result.

My previous preparation is a good night sleep the day before and focus on what I have to do, a previous talking to photographer helps a lot!

A funny story? Maybe not funny but something that happens sometimes when I arrive in the studio or in a shooting location. There are lots of models and we start a conversation in english. After 30 minutes talking we realized that we were all brazilian guys! lol lol

 

Male models X Female models

Women still rule this business (of course, they are beautiful lol!), but a picture shows a story. Behind a beautiful woman, there comes his man, so we are the half part of their image.

The catwalks experiences

In Asia I´ve walked for Tommy Hilfiger, Y-3, Burberry, Michael Kors.

A fashionista?

Not at al, but I like to read about the fashion world and I always wear what makes me feel good and comfortable. For a dinner Im gonna wear something more formal, elegant. "
When I´m with my buddies in Brazil, probably flip-flops, shorts and maybe not even a T-shirt lol.

Imagine u a famous model surrounded by a huge crowd!

Well this is a funny situation, I am very friendly and I always treats well who treats me well, sometimes people ask for a picture after a show or a shooting and I always accept it, but if I were a celebrity I think that it would be hard to attend all people. But, like I said, the most important thing is to be nice to everyone, after all, the fans are the main reason for your success.

Show biz, fame, success and the most important things for his life

Show business is the toughest business in the industry. I believe that fame can be both good or bad, u have to deal with gossips but also people recognize your hard work and effort that lead to be succesful.
Most important things for me are health, family, love and good friends ! o /

Sports

I love to watch and play soccer.

Having fun and enjoying life

I love nature, I love go to the beach, surfing and hanging out with my buddies

The craziest thing in a summer time season

The craziest thing I`ve ever done was trying to drink a snake`s blood and snake soup when I was in Taiwan.

Favorite body part and why

Smile because it shows the truth of a person

In his Ipod

Bob Marley, Jack Johnson, Pete Murray, Donavon Frankenreiter, Matisyahu, Marcelo D2, Emicida and some others.

Favorite food

Seafood

If you weren´t a model, u'd be…

An actor, because I could play many different roles feel how to be someone else`s life.

Guilty pleasure

Chocolate

Motto

To be successful and happy in whatever I do in life.

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Soccer superstars Sergi Enrich and Antonio Luna play for the Spanish club Eibar, and they’re both extremely talented. The two players are in the center of a social media scandal after a video depicting Enrich and Luna embroiled in a threesome leaked.
The short video identifies both players and also features an unidentified young woman. Some believe the clip shows Luna topping Enrich while he receives oral from the woman.
Since the video leaked, they released a heartfelt and apologetic statement that read:

“In light of the circulation on social media of a sexually explicit video in which we, the undersigned, appear, we want to state that the video shows a recording of a private act which took place between fully consenting adults, within the scope of the freedoms we all enjoy.

We deeply regret that an indiscretion for which we are not responsible has led to these images being published without our knowledge or, far less, our consent.
We likewise regret the potential damage [not only] to our image but in particular to that of our club, whose colors we represent, and that it could have offended our supporters and the city of Eibar in general.

We are aware that professional footballers should set an example in every walk of life, especially to children; this being the reason we apologize if this incident has caused harm to anyone.
Equally, we want to apologize for the damage the circulation of this video could cause to the third person involved in the video.
We wish to stress that, as SD Eibar players, an exemplary club that represents a set of fans and a city equally exemplary, we stand by the values that have been shown to us since we arrived in Eibar. We hope this incident does not in any way harm the image of the club, nor that of our team-mates.”

The 17-second clip surfaced on Twitter, and exploded on Tumblr. Following the leak, Spanish news sites recirculated a photo of Enrich and Luna holding hands while on vacation last summer in New York, which has some fans hoping they’re a couple. Although the scandal is potentially damaging to the club, we applaud them for their honesty and bravery as athletes.

Nick Jonas on Using His Sexuality ‘as Ammunition’

October 8, 2016, 4:39 pm

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     Nick Jonas is a gay-baiter. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a thing, and he’s well aware of the criticism. At 24, Jonas has been in the spotlight for a long time, but since pursuing a solo career, he’s repeatedly used the allure of his sexuality to entice his gay and bisexual fans to buy his music.

In an interview with Out magazine, Jonas addressed the accusations saying, “It’s not the majority, but a large handful have a negative opinion for whatever reason, and I think it’s really quite sad.”Jonas addressed the charges again in the Autumn 2016 fashion issue of Wonderland magazine.Ironically, the interview accompanied a particularly steamy photo shoot in which Jonas leaves little to the imagination. Jonas openly discussed his sexuality and the criticism he regularly receives for being an ally to the LGBT community.

“Sexuality is important as an artist, to embrace and use it as ammunition in your creative life, and understanding that part of your life, and how it makes you feel,” he said.

Starting in theater growing into the performer I am today, I’ve made so many great friends belonging to the LGBT community. The positive impact is ten times more important than the negative comments.”

He also talked about his upcoming fraternity-hazing movie, Goat, opposite another accused gay-baiter, James Franco. When asked what drew him to the role, Jonas affirmed that he believed the film sparked dialogue around the controversial practice of hazing in fraternity culture.

      

“I think it’s a conversation that is important at this moment because they’re so many of these stories in recent years of young men pushing each other to a point where it’s all just so dangerous,” Jonas told Wonderland.

He went on to defend the premise of the film, saying, “At the center of the film, as far as themes go, is masculinity: and what that looks like at 16, and the pressures forced onto these young men and the stakes that become so high. So being able to tell that story in a way that feels very grounded and very real, and starting a conversation, was important.”
Look for the Autumn 2016 issue on newsstands in the United States this week.

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You may not be a superstar athlete or a supermodel, but you can certainly eat like one. While some might think that New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bündchen (and kids) have a limiting diet, it's actually not all that crazy... it's simply clean.
 

What do they eat?

• Vegetables (a lot -- it's about 80% of their diet according to their personal chef Allen Campbell)
• Gluten-free grains (think quinoa, millet, brown rice)
• Legumes (lentils and beans)
• Lean meats (organic steak and chicken) and fish (mostly wild salmon)
• Coconut oil

 

What don't they eat?

• No white sugar
• No white flour
• No dairy
• No gluten
• No coffee or caffeine
• No nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms or eggplants)
• No cooking with olive oil (although, raw olive oil has been given the thumbs up)
• No iodized salt
• No fruits (for the most part; the kids eat fruit and Tom eats bananas in his smoothies)

 

No fun? Not so fast! Even if you don't follow their diet to a T, you can still incorporate some of their dos and dont's into your meal .

 

The Hidden Dangers of Male Modeling

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The casting director, a Dutch man in his 50s with a large paunch, looked at me, his eyes darting around my body. “Take off your top and show me your torso,” he said. I was exhausted after 14 hours of castings, and so I did what I was told and removed my undershirt to reveal my rather pallid chest. After a quick glance, the casting director returned to his seat in the adjacent room and muttered to his stylist, “He’s beautiful, but he’s fat.” Sound travels easily in a hard-floored warehouse; I had moved to the changing room, but I heard his words clearly. I felt humiliated.

 

I had walked the catwalk twice at Paris Fashion Week, worked with a range of talented photographers and stylists, and was part of a world filled with staggeringly beautiful people. But this wasn’t the first time I had been called overweight, despite my jutting rib cage and hips. At a fitting for a Japanese menswear show in Paris in the summer of 2014, a group of elderly women from the designer’s team gathered behind me to laugh and lightly slap my buttocks as the material stretched to cover my rear. On another shoot, a stylist who had started drinking vodka at 9 a.m. told me I was “handsome” but needed to “stop being lazy and do some fucking crunches.” I didn’t like any of it—and I certainly didn’t like being called “beautiful” but “fat.” I decided then, that summer, to quit modeling.

 

When most people think of exploitation in modeling, they think of young women and girls walking the catwalk with alarmingly protruding hips and angular shoulders, or they remember the lurid tales of celebrity photographers manipulating or coercing young women into sex acts. Muscle-bound male models with perfect cheekbones and fat paychecks? They do not seem like obvious victims. But as I found during my short career as a male model, men and boys are increasingly at risk in the odd, unregulated workplace that is the fashion world. Being a man does not make you safe: Male models are often subject to sexual harassment but rarely report it. And, like their female counterparts, they are under intense pressure to have just the right kind of body. 

 

Recent menswear trends have polarized male catwalk modeling, encouraging either extreme muscularity or waifish androgyny. Want to look like that? It will likely make you sick.
 Many models complain of inappropriate touching and sexual advances by photographers, casting agents, editors and fashion designers. 

 

And there’s another factor that makes male models more vulnerable today: Emerging East Asian economies have created a demand for designer clothes and consequently for models. Growing numbers of young models, both men and women, are heading to Asia, far from their families and support networks, and working in poorly regulated conditions that leave them at risk of being overworked and underpaid. It turns out that being really, really, really good-looking—as Ben Stiller’s male model character Derek Zoolander describes himself—will not guarantee you wealth, health or security.

 

Sam Thomas, founder of the U.K.-based charity Men Get Eating Disorders Too, is highly critical of recent shifts in the fashion industry. “There has certainly been a trend in which some male models are getting younger and definitely skinnier,” says Thomas. The industry seems “particularly polarized right now,” he says, with hypermuscular looks becoming increasingly popular at the same time as demand has surged for waifish male models.

 

Sara Ziff, founder of the Model Alliance, a New York City nonprofit labor organization advocating for greater protection of models, says male models face a uniquely difficult situation. “I definitely think that men have just as many labor-related concerns as women, if not more,” says Ziff, a longtime model. “The industry urgently needs reform. It’s an industry that has escaped any real regulation for decades.”
The models and insiders I spoke with for this story were often hesitant to talk for fear of reprisals, and many requested anonymity. Their insights reveal an industry struggling to safeguard some of its youngest employees—many of whom have very little employment protection, are ill-informed of their rights and suffer from a culture of silence that protects the abusers within the industry who are considered too powerful to confront.

 

At the age of 20, I fell for that world. It seemed to me like easy money and a shortcut to joining a glamorous elite. But after a year of dabbling in the industry, I realized it was making me miserable. Sure, I had become part of a rarefied world cordoned off from the public—and I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t enjoyed that—but to remain part of that elite I was expected to work unpaid to gain a degree of celebrity that never came. I had to cope with relentless pressure to keep my weight down, and my agency bookers expected me to attend castings for up to 17 hours a day in the run-up to fashion week.

 

 And there was this: The money turned out to be lousy. While a male model might earn a few thousand dollars for a major show and maybe in the tens of thousands for an international campaign, many magazine shoots are unpaid, and small shows often pay only a few hundred. I felt exploited, as did many of my peers, and yet all of us felt we couldn’t speak out because getting a reputation as being “difficult” or “demanding” could kill your fledgling career. So we kept posing and we kept quiet.

Boys on Film

I became a model in 2013, when I was in my third year of studying English and French literature at Oxford University. I had moved to Paris as part of my studies, and my teenage interest in fashion was reborn. I had always been excited by the pace of the industry and found the processes behind designing and creating these garments fascinating. But I had never considered working as a model.

 

Three days after arriving in Paris in September 2013, I headed out to a gay club, exhausted (from the move) and a little drunk (from the vodka). A guy across the room with stubble and chiseled cheekbones caught my attention; when I ventured out into the street for a cigarette, he followed. He asked for a light and then asked if I was a model. I told him it was a terrible pickup line. He told me he was a casting director and invited me to his studio a few days later, took some photos and added me to his database.
The following weekend, we shot a series of portraits. A few weeks later, he cast me in a music video. And a few months later, he sent me to one of Paris’s most prestigious modeling agencies. Its verdict? That I was “unsuitable.”

 

A chance encounter with another casting director in early 2014 led to an invitation to visit a modeling agency. I posed for a few Polaroids, wrote down my measurements and awaited the decision. The booker—a kind, freckled man in his 30s—looked me up and down as I stood by the window of his fifth-floor studio, whispering to his assistant. “You could do with some exercise,” he said finally, as though I was an out-of-season racehorse, “but we’d love you to come on board.”

 

In spite of my reservations, I felt a flood of nervous euphoria. I couldn’t help but be seduced by the idea that I would be paid mountains of cash to lounge around and have my face splashed across billboards. And then I began working, and reality hit: To be a model is to accept that you are a product as well as a person. You are also a target for sexual predators.
At first, I was relatively oblivious to the extent of the sexual harassment and abuse in the industry. Serious propositions and sexual advances are often framed as jokes, allowing the powerful figures who make them—photographers, editors and casting directors—to dismiss them as such should they be declined. 

 

In September 2013, while I was shooting a music video, a fashion consultant in his 60s spent the day making inappropriate comments and asking if what was “down there” was as “intoxicating” as my “handsome face.” I ignored him and moved away when he repeatedly brushed against me. As he slid past me, he stroked his hand across my lower back and slapped my backside.
A few weeks later, an editor offered to shoot me for the cover of his magazine, with the caveat that I pose naked and join him for a “romantic” dinner that evening. I said I wasn’t interested, but he messaged me regularly throughout the year. His messages became increasingly graphic, including sending me links to porn videos and images of another model whose career he claimed to have launched.

 

 In June 2014, a photographer tried to make me commit to orgies while on a shoot, with the promise of getting me “exposure.” He also convinced me and the other male model I was shooting with to strip down to our underwear in the middle of the Bois de Vincennes, a wooded area southeast of Paris.
At times, these powerful men behave with a remarkable sense of impunity: While I was conducting research for this article, one powerful fashion designer, high on cocaine, repeatedly sent me unsolicited naked videos when I attempted to arrange an interview.
In some ways, I got off lightly. Matthew, a British model, signed up with his first agency while he settled into life in Paris (a few months later, he joined Elite, the world’s leading agency). He soon found himself in the studio of a photographer who overstepped the mark.

 

“It was horrible,” says Matthew, which is his real first name. He has now quit modeling and is a student living in London. “He made me take all my clothes off, including my underwear. His rationale was that he needed to get me over the phase of being awkward and make me more comfortable in my own body.”
Exposing the photographer was impossible, Matthew says. “I couldn’t complain because he was part of my agency.” The man was one of the bookers working at the agency; he freelanced as a photographer on the side.

 

“In fashion, it is always older people controlling younger,” says René Habermacher, a Swiss-born photographer who works regularly for Japanese Vogue and other leading titles. Ziff, of the Model Alliance, says she has heard about countless situations that mirrored Matthew’s story. “I don’t think I’ve ever spoken with a male model about the Model Alliance without them talking about sexual harassment,” she says.
 
Their age makes many models particularly vulnerable. “When starting out, models tend to be very young,” says Ziff, whose modeling career started at 14. “Their careers are short-lived and tenuous for the most part. If you know that you have a shelf life of maybe five years, you're much less likely to stick your neck out or complain, especially since it is so competitive.”
 ‘Underage and Underfed’
I have found it hard to stick to my decision to quit modeling. I still take jobs now and then. I miss the excitement. Also, as a recent graduate, I could do with the cash. On certain jobs, I have been shocked by how young many of the models are. At my last show, the Andrea Crews collection shown in Paris in January 2016, I shared a cigarette with a boy backstage whose tousled hair, slender body, boyish features and full lips combined to make him look delicate and androgynous. “How old are you?” I asked him. “Fifteen,” he said, looking nervous. “I don’t really know what I’m doing here.”

 

Critics and commentators have long criticized the use of very young male models in the fashion industry, but the current trend for models with boyish or androgynous looks has intensified that criticism. The androgynous look pushes male models to lose muscle mass and women to lose their natural curves. One model, Jack—that’s a pseudonym—says that has increased competition between men and women for the same shows. (At Gucci’s menswear show in January 2015, for example, boyish female models walked alongside waifish men.)

 

In stark contrast to the androgynous male models on the catwalks in Asia are the muscle-bound male models typified by the perfectly sculpted British model David Gandy. But beneath those hypermuscular builds are often serious health problems. “The big, muscular guys are no better off,” says a British photographer, whose work is regularly featured in American Vogue and GQ France and who requested anonymity. “Men who are that big, who go to the gym that often and have 2 percent body fat—they are starving themselves too.” Researchers and mental health experts have coined the term bigorexia to describe muscle dysmorphia, a distorted perception of the body as too weak and lacking muscle that fuels obsessive workouts even among the most toned men and bodybuilders.

 

The pressure to lose weight is common among male models. In December 2013, Jack, who had trained as a dancer and had muscular legs, was told by his agents to lose 3 kilograms (about 6.5 pounds) from his legs for a Saint Laurent fitting. “It was a huge pressure.” He prioritized reaching his target weight over his health. “It pushed me towards an eating disorder. All the guilt, constantly—it was like pre-bulimia.”

 

Almost every one of the 15 insiders who agreed to speak to Newsweek said Saint Laurent’s recently departed creative director, Hedi Slimane, spearheaded the rise of the ultra-skinny male model. Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Chanel and one of fashion’s most powerful designers, wrote in The Telegraph in 2004 that “Slimane’s fashions, modelled by very, very slim boys, required me to lose at least six of my 16 stone.”

 

Slimane defended his preference for super skinny young men in an interview with Yahoo Style last year, explaining that he was bullied as a teenager for not having a traditionally masculine build: “I was precisely just like any of these guys I photograph or that walk my shows. Jackets were always a little too big for me. Many in high school, or in my family, were attempting to make me feel I was half a man because I was lean.” Slimane says later in the interview that there was a derogatory and homophobic undertone to the idea that skinny was “queer.”

 

For many fashion insiders, the reasons for his casting choices are hardly relevant; what matters is the impact Slimane had on models—and even men outside the fashion world. The British photographer who worked for American Vogue is highly critical of the male body type promoted by the designer. “Hedi idolizes emaciated boys,” he says. Slimane created an aesthetic that he sums up as “underage and underfed.” Saint Laurent and Slimane declined repeated requests for comment when approached by Newsweek.

Thin in Japan

Nowhere has super skinny become more prevalent than in East Asia. Japan has long been a major player in the fashion world, but the rise of China and South Korea has cemented the importance of East Asia. But Asia doesn’t just present new opportunities; it also brings new threats. The market is known in the fashion world for its preference for ultra-skinny male models.

 

 “In Japan, you have a strong desire for younger, sweet-looking male models, and to the extent that you must represent the market, they’re simply smaller sized,” says Valerie Steele, an American fashion historian, curator and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Combined with culture shock, long work hours and isolation from their families and friends, young male models often enter these new markets unaware of their labor rights and the dangers they might face.
In the summer of 2014, Habermacher joked that I should head to East Asia if I wanted my career to really take off. “They’d love you over there,” the photographer told me, “and the pay is crazy: You can make up to 10,000, maybe 20,000, [euros] a month if you’re busy, but you can be shooting back-to-back for up to 16 or 18 hours a day.” But Habermacher was not actually recommending I make the move because he knew what I would have to do to succeed in Asia. “They like small boys over there, I mean really small,” he said. “You’d have to lose about 10 kilos to really make it.”

 

The idea of starting a new, thrilling life in Tokyo, Seoul or Shanghai was tempting. Losing 15 percent of my body weight was not. Shedding 10 kilograms (about 22 pounds) would have sent my body mass index (BMI), a scale using height and weight measurements to judge whether somebody is overweight or underweight, down to 16.9, a level the World Health Organization defines as “severely malnourished.”

 

But I was tempted, in spite of my concerns over my health. Asia offers male models financial opportunities that seem ever scarcer in saturated Western markets and in an industry where men earn far less than their female counterparts. According to a Forbes report, from June 2012 to June 2013, the top 10 highest-earning female models made a combined $83.3 million; from September 2012 to September 2013, the top 10 men made $8 million. The best-paid female model, Gisele Bundchen, made $42 million between June 2012 and June 2013; Sean O’Pry, the highest-earning man, made $1.5 million in the year ending in September 2013.

 

There’s a gender gap lower down in the market too, with salary data company PayScale reporting that female models can expect an average yearly income of $41,300, compared with the Forbes estimate of male earnings around $28,000 in recent years, approximately $2,000 short of the New York living wage as calculated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
One model from Models 1, Europe’s largest agency, took up his booker’s offer of a summer in the Far East. He agreed to speak to Newsweek on the condition of anonymity. “I came because I wanted to make some money before starting university,” says the model, a 19-year-old British student. Yet in retrospect, he says, specifics were missing from his conversation with his booker. “Money was not discussed,” he says.

 

He signed a contract to head to Tokyo in the winter of 2015 with little knowledge of the small print. He felt honored to be offered the opportunity and assumed the terms and conditions would be reasonable and lucrative. But when he showed his mother the contract, she was appalled at the conditions he had agreed to. “She basically said that I’m going to come back with nothing and that, at best, I’ll break even.”

 

His travel and accommodations were to be covered by the agency, but under the terms of the contract the money had to be paid back. He would start receiving payment for jobs only after this debt was cleared. Until then, he would have to live on an allowance of about $87 a week, an amount he could not survive on, so he needed his mother to supplement.
Certain clauses felt particularly exploitative, he says. If he did not book enough jobs, he would have been sent home at his own expense, owing his agency a four-figure sum. If he breached any other terms, including cutting his hair without permission, getting a suntan or putting on any weight, he could have faced the same forfeit.
But the model decided to go regardless, thinking that the experience of living abroad would be worthwhile and that there was always a chance of getting his big break. “I just feel so lucky,” he says, talking via FaceTime from his small Tokyo apartment.

 

Trust Us

France, Spain, Italy and Israel have all passed legislation within the past decade requiring all models working in those countries to possess a medical certificate that declares them fit to work. The French law stipulates that models’ health must be "assessed in particular in terms of body mass index” but with a nod to more holistic methods of assessment, including body shape and well-being. An agency booker who fails to adhere to the law risks a fine of 75,000 euros (about $83,623) and up to six months in prison. The law also requires agencies to signal when modeling photos have been retouched to alter body shape. 

 

Fines of up to 10,000 euros (about $11,150) and one year in prison can await individuals “provoking people to excessive thinness by encouraging prolonged dietary restrictions that could expose them to a danger of death or directly impair their health.”
In the fashion world, these laws have few fans—even among the models. The three male models interviewed for this story all expressed support for the idea of limiting the weight pressures they faced but questioned the accuracy of the BMI scale as a measure. Industry insiders also attacked the inaccuracy of the BMI when applied to those under 25 and the idea that it might penalize models afflicted by eating disorders. And then there’s this: The majority of the countries in the world where models work have no legislation protecting these young people.

 

The fashion industry is so sprawling and decentralized that many industry insiders believe that the only way it can protect its young is if it decides to take on that responsibility itself. Many powerful figures in the industry say they are already acting responsibly. Storm Models, a leading agency, says it abides by minimum BMI rules. “Ultimately, we’re just a supply chain,” says Cat Trathen, head of the men’s division at Storm. “We only provide what our clients are asking for.” She says that any potential problems lie with the editors and brands booking the models she represents.

 

 And she was adamant that she and her team already do their utmost to safeguard the models signed to their agency: “We do not have and we have never had one model—male or female—on this board who is underweight.” Trathen says it’s not in the economic interests of an agency to promote models who are too thin: “A model who’s underweight is going to be ill. Ultimately, they’re a commodity, and you have to look after them. If someone is ill or too thin, they're not going to work because they're not going to look their best or have the energy to model.”

 

 One prominent casting director, Noah Shelley of AM Casting, says he bears some responsibility for the pressure to be skinny. “If we were to sit down and round table and say there’s blame to be had, then I would definitely deserve some,” says Shelley. “Nonetheless, I don’t feel on a daily basis that I’m responsible for unhealthy body ideals, but I’m not naïve enough to suggest that couldn’t be happening without my intention, and I have to take responsibility for that.”

 

Yet Sebastien Meunier, creative director of the Paris-based cult fashion house Ann Demeulemeester, denies that designers are doing anything wrong. “We are not doing anything shocking: We’re making clothes that are perfectly decent and acceptable,” he tells Newsweek. “At the end of the day, [models] are adults. There’s no problem here.”
“Everyone says they’re not the ones at fault, that they’re just following orders,” she says. “I suspect there’s a lot of blame to be shared. The casting directors and designers and members of the audience want to see thin, white, young models. They’re all at fault.”

 

Why are there no plus-size male models?

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Women's fashion boasts plenty of plus-size stars, while the men's industry has only beefcakes and scrawny geeks, says Alfred Tong. In the current climate of gender equality, when something happens in women's fashion there necessarily has to be a men’s equivalent.Often, all that’s needed to make it acceptable to heterosexual men is to prefix it with the word: man. Hence, man-bags, man-scaping, man-dresses, mewlery, meggings etc.

Women use moisturiser and so men can use moisturiser too - just as long as it comes in ‘manly’ grey packaging a la the Dove Men Care Range. Women wear pink, and so can men: within certain boundaries. Pink shirt OK; pink trousers, no.

Women have supermodels, men have DavidsGandy and Beckham posing in their underpants.

Women have plus-size models, too, such as Crystal Renn, Marquita Pring, Ashley Graham and Robyn Lawley. They are all highly successful, gracing high-fashion catwalks, lingerie adverts and magazine covers. 

 

So where are all the famous big boys? Will we see anyone with a 38-inch waist during London Fashion Week, Britain's biannaul men's fashion festival, which starts today?
It’s not like there isn’t a ‘market’ for it. There's no shortage of big-boned lads out there in search of role models. But, alas, the fashion industry, contrarian thing that it is, does not work that way.
Mark Simpson, coiner of the terms ‘metrosexual’ and "spornosexual" says, “Part of the reason why there are no plus-size male models is that there are no politics behind it. It’s not a controversial issue in the same way that it is for women.

 

 Men are objectified all the time in the media, but it’s not called ‘objectification’. There’s no male equivalent of feminist ideology.”
In 2013, when the designer Rick Owens showedhis S/S14 womenswear collectionusing muscular and plus-sized sorority hip-hop dancers, many of whom were black, some commentators were moved to call it the most provocative fashion statement of the decade. And by the standards of high fashion it probably was. As we look forward to London Collection: Men it’s hard to see how any men’s fashion show, even one performed by, say, a naked rollerblading Ray Winstone, could attract that kind of hyperbole. 

 

In a way, there are plus-size male models, except they’re muscular, says Mark Simpson, “David Gandy is probably the world’s most famous male model, but if you looked at his BMI he’d probably be classed as overweight. Muscle is denser and heavier than fat. BMI is hugely misleading in that respect. He was considered too bulky at the start of his career”.
Even when magazines do try to showcase different body types, they find that agencies only have either classically good looking hunks like Gandy or skinny, teenage boys. Wiliam Selden was photographing a story for i-D with the stylist Simon Foxton, when he ran up against the conservatism of the modelling industry. 

 

“We wanted a very diverse casting," says Selden. "I'd just shot Boris Johnson, who cuts quite a fine figure in a suit, so we thought a bigger bloke would be good. I realised that no model agencies had a plus-size men's division. We were after someone masculine and sexy, like a rugby player, as I’m not really sure anyone really likes skinny teenage models.” 

 

Not that there isn’t controversy when it comes to the representation of men’s bodies in the media. There was a considerable furore in America when baseball star Price Fielder graced the cover of ESPN magazine's 6th annual, ’Body Issue’, naked except for a baseball bat. Andrew Shanahan, founder of online weight-loss magazine ManVFat says, “People were asking whether he was a suitable role model, despite the fact that he is a successful athlete. He’s a big guy and looks fat, but he's in good condition.” 

 

Shanahan faced a similar issue when deciding who to put on the cover of one of his publications. “There was considerable pressure to put an aspirational image on the cover. But I think men of that size feel invisible and found it reassuring to see someone like them.”
He speaks movingly of men who simply want to stop wobbling when they walk, and for whom the aspirational six-packs of established fitness titles like Men’s Health are irrelevant to the central aim of losing weight and getting healthier. 

 

While male eating disorders are on the rise, men generally still have nowhere near the same fraught relationship with food that many women have. “There’s still an attitude that having a big appetite is seen as being masculine. You get praise for having a healthy appetite,” says Shanahan. “Being big still equates to having a big personality, whereas it’s smaller, skinnier men who are associated with being weak and scrawny.” 

 

Perhaps the final word belongs to casting director Simon Lewis, founder of Cast and Elect, who has scouted campaigns and shows for Calvin Klein, House of Holland and Agi and Sam. “Men don’t really care that much," he says. "You can be fat and still get girls. Women are under much more pressure to look a certain way. Most men don’t need to be made to feel good about the fact that they’re fat. As long as they can see their dicks, they just don’t care.” 

 

Who is Juano Diaz?!

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Juano Diaz was born in Glasgow in 1977. At the age of seven he was adopted by a Romany Gypsy family where he was greatly encouraged with music and the arts. Juano has been featured as actor in five Scottish films directed by Wilma Smith, among them the documentary MAGPIE and the film MY LIFE AS A BUS STOP, for which he was was nominated for best actor at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2007 . Juano has worked on screen for Manfred Thierry Mugler in his short film Z CHROMOSOME which opened the Cheries Cheri Film Festival in Paris 2010.

 Noticed for his sittings as model for the renowned Pierre et Gilles, Juano appears in three of their iconic works. He also has had exhibitions of his own psychedelic portraits in Paris, London and NYC. Juano debud as a film director in 2015 with DEUX OMBRES, an experimental film that tells his experience with life, loss and sexuality, mixed with a love of fantasy. starring Juano, alongside Pierre Commoy (Pierre et Gilles). And music by Cocorosie. The film was screened at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay Art NYC 2014. Juano currently resides in NYC his work includes painting, film and photography.

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Juano Diaz to join UvenioVasi Coffeetable book!

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Juano Diaz's MasterPieces

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(Katherine Lanziero by Juano Diaz 2014)

He also has had exhibitions of his own psychedelic portraits in Paris, London and NYC. Juano debud as a film director in 2015 with DEUX OMBRES, an experimental film that tells his experience with life, loss and sexuality, mixed with a love of fantasy. starring Juano, alongside Pierre Commoy (Pierre et Gilles). And music by Cocorosie. The film was screened at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay Art NYC 2014. Juano currently resides in NYC his work includes painting, film and photography.

Juano Diaz may be beautiful and handsome, he is also extremely talented young man....Check out his amazing work!

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Juano Diaz: Masculine

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Not only is Juano Diaz an Artist, he is also the handsome Male Model joining my Coffeetable book very soon before he leaves New York to do his film!

Juano Diaz by Krys Fox

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Juano Diaz: The Artist & Male Model

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Juano Diaz was born in Glasgow 1977, adopted at the age of 7 to a Romany gypsy family where he was encouraged with music and the arts.

The very handsome has featured as actor in 5 Scottish films by director Wilma smith, with nominations for best actor at the Edinburgh film festival 2007 and award of excellence  from the California indie film festival 2010.

(JUANO DIAZ BY JOHNNY ROZSA 2014)

Juano has worked on screen for Manfred Thierry Mugler in his short (z chromosome) starring alongside Partner Joey arias, and most noticed for his sittings as model for the iconic Pierre et Gilles.Juano studied fine art at Glasgow school of art and has since shown work in PARIS, LONDON, NYC. with many celebrity collectors holding his large scale modern cubist paintings, and hand painted photos.

Two documentaries have recently been shot one in Scotland by indie film maker Wilma smith covering his amazing story from adoption and gypsy life.
The second in NYC following juano as an artist, by Courtney Harmel. Juano artwork is now held as part the prestigious Leslie Lohman museum New York, where he now lives.

SuperModel Julien Hedquist's Back!

October 9, 2016, 1:04 pm

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Last September, just months before its untimely end, Details Magazine pulled off a casting coup of epic proportions, with a cover shot of thirty-one top models, from longtime superstars to impressive new faces, arranged class-photo style for Mark Seliger’s camera. Near the center, right between Tyson Ballou and Mark Vanderloo, was a face many in the industry hadn’t seen in years, but who was still recognizable from his heyday over a decade ago, when he fronted campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, DKNY, and the Gap, as well as fragrances for Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, and Hugo Boss. Julien Hedquist had returned.

For a notoriously fickle industry, fashion turns out a surprisingly robust share of comeback stories. Many models take time off for school, or to raise children, but Hedquist’s hiatus was entirely unplanned. In 2006, after years of spectacular success, he lapsed into a coma after a prescription drug overdose from an almost lethal combination of sleeping pills, painkillers, and alcohol, and did not regain consciousness until three weeks later, then spent well over a year working to regain full use of his motor skills.

“I was making money and it was a great time,” he says of the first years of the new millennium. “Then it was one stupid night of too much partying.”

A native of Pennsylvania, Hedquist was discovered at the age of sixteen in a cafe in Stockholm, where his family was living at the time after his father had been transferred there for work. Hedquist picked up modeling jobs quickly, and tried to balance his new career with his schooling after he moved to California to study psychology at the University of San Francisco, but soon found it difficult to devote enough time to either.

He decided to move to New York to model full time, and booked numerous major international campaigns. That success, however, also came with some complications.

Hedquist’s accident was the result of a toxic mix of alcohol and prescription drugs, including sleeping pills, which he had been prescribed to help deal with the pressures of the job and the stress of constant travel. “I was really high-strung and anxious when I was little,” he explains, “and, when you’re a model, there’s this projection put on you that you are special in some way that you have to embody on set. That pressure is sometimes hard to compartmentalize in your real life.”

“It was a maturity issue,” Hedquist emphasizes. “I was not equipped enough mentally and socially to deal with it. I wasn’t mature enough to work like a normal person.” He insists that he accepts responsibility for his addiction, and he is not looking to blame the industry for his mistakes.

Even as he became increasingly dependent on the pills, he says that he believed that he was still in control. “I thought I could handle it, but just like everybody else who’s in that position, they’re in denial and they think they can handle it until they can’t and they end up in a coma. I couldn’t, and I failed.”

Coming out of his coma, Hedquist was initially unable to see and was a quadriplegic. His doctors told him he was unlikely to walk again, which he refused to believe. At first, he spoke only French, his native tongue, but he says that he felt strangely relaxed as he learned to make his way through the world again. “Surprisingly enough, I was the most calm I’ve ever been,” he recalls. “For the first time, nothing was expected of me.”

Follow Hedquist’s journey on Instagram at @julienhedquist.

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Victor Norlander: 5 Simple Questions

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Victor Norlander is well known for his lithe editorial and runway look and modeled for top fashion houses but his original passion came much before modeling. 

When did you begin dancing
When I was four years old

How does it influence your modeling:
Dancing helps me to be aware of my body and movement in front of the camera

What type of dance do you love most:
Lyrical Jazz, second choice – street dance

What dancers do you look up to:
Gene Kelly from Singing in the Rain – 1952

Favorite place to dance:
New York City

        

Joseph Altuzarra: Premiere Interview

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Though many names are buzzed about each season it takes a rare talent to capture the attention of fashion editors, the celebrity set and buyers alike. In just two seasons Joseph Altuzarra has risen from designing under Ricardo Tisci at Givenchy to fronting his namesake line, Altuzarra. With a focus on sharp tailoring, body conscious looks and the kind of easy glamor that never goes out of style, Joseph’s line is quickly becoming a favorite of women on the pulse of what is fashionable. Just ask Carine Roitfeld and Anna Wintour – both of whom sat front row at his Spring show.  Icatched up with the rising star to talk about how he got his start, what defines his process and just why Tom Ford is such an influence.

Joseph Altuzarra, a name that frequently falls upon the lips of the current Fashion frenzy. Paris born, and yet you chose to work with American designers in your early days, what was the initial attraction?
Joseph Altuzarra: I think that, like most things, it was about being at the right place at the right time. I sent my resume to Marc Jacobs after College, but if I hadn’t gotten an answer I would have probably gone back to Paris, and tried my luck there. I was hoping I could stay in New York though. I love New York, I love the energy and the freedom. And I love my life here.

 New York is indeed the center of it all isn’t it? Or so it feels…. It’s funny how we spend so much time trying to decide what it is exactly that we want to do for our “career”, and yet more often than not when discussing a success story with someone, they will always tell you “I never really planned to do this”. You yourself started off as an Art History major and never really planned to work in Fashion. What initially inspired you to send that resume over to Marc Jacobs?
JA: I have always been interested in fashion, from a very young age, and I drew a lot, and was an avid magazine reader. But I was also interested in a lot of other things: music, cinema, art. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, because there are so many things that are fascinating to me. In the end though, fashion is the best thing for me, because I’m able to learn and discover different things, and incorporate them in my work.

 I think an interest in all of those things is definitely a major contribution to the makings of a talented designer..I was at the show this season and aside from the beauty of the collection itself and the incredible casting, the hair and make up was another personal favorite detail of the show. Is that something that you also take part in when the decision is being made on the “look” etc?
JA: Absolutely. It’s something I discuss with my team fairly early on, and that we kind of mull over, think about. Laurent Philippon does the hair for the collection, and Tom Pecheux does the makeup, and they are masters at what they do. I also think that at this point we are so comfortable with each other that we can have very free conversations about the direction we think we should go in, and new ideas. And of course, working with Stefanie Stein, who did the casting, was crucial in taking us to the next level, and developing our image. In the end, it is a team effort, and I am lucky to be working with incredibly talented and hard working people.

 The Show this season was styled by a Priestess of the house of Vogue Paris, Melanie hyunh, how did you two initially come together and start working with one another on the show?
JA: Melanie and I have known each other for a while, from living in Paris. Initially we were just really close friends, which is why I asked her if she would help me with Altuzarra. She understands me better than anyone, and has an incredible eye. And it’s important for me to be able to have an honest dialogue with someone about the direction of the season, and vision for the brand, not to mention whether or not she would wear it!


 I don’t think it’s a secret that the New York Fashion week is quite thrilled to have you showing here, but naturally it’s come up in question as to why you would choose to show the collection here in New York over your hometown of Paris?
JA: I think Paris is such a wonderful and inspiring city. I draw all the collections there, and do research there, and work with a primarily French team. But New York feels like the right city for me to show in today. It embraces new talent, encourages it, and builds a very strong community of designers, editors, and buyers.

 As a self proclaimed “child of the 90s” (me too!) You’ve attributed some of your early inspirations to designers like Jil Sander and Helmut Lang.. What other aspects of yourself do you affiliate with being a child of this particular decade?
JA: Mainly, some bad taste in music and movies!
 (Laughs)..That is all too true of a statement! Tom Ford is an incredible Icon and impeccable Talent internationally respected in our business, its been said that he is your idol in the fashion industry… Obviously there are many reasons to hold him so high but what is it to you that make’s him an idol?
JA: He was really able (and still is) to make clothing that was both very desirable, while driving fashion forward, which I think is a rare talent. In the end, he made women look beautiful. And you have to admire how strongly and one-mindedly he developed a brand.

One of my favorite things that you’ve ever said is that you like working with people who are at the start of their careers, so that way you all get to grow up and succeed together. When this economic crash started, everyone was wondering if it would push us back to powerhouse names or if it would make room for the new. In a sense I feel as though it’s done both at once, what’s your perspective on this?
JA: I think working with newer people is very important to my process, because we all share the same drive to succeed and to innovate. I can’t build Altuzarra on my own, and the strongest way to do it is to create a family of peers who you can grow with over time.

Eddie Klint: Voyage Interview with A SuperModel

October 9, 2016, 3:58 pm

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When Eddie Klint left Copenhagen last July, instead of hopping on a plane for New York or a train to Paris, he boarded a boat and took to the Øresund. Klint, best-known for his many seasons as the face of Prada, was setting off on a year-long trip circling the Atlantic, a journey that took him from Europe to Africa and both Americas and is coming to an end this month. Like Daria Werbowy—who, coincidentally, also fronted a long succession of Prada campaigns, and spoke about her love of sailing in a recent issue of T Magazine—Klint seems to feel the pull of a particularly powerful form of wanderlust, the kind that makes someone spend months navigating a decades-old ship across ocean swells and down the Amazon in pursuit of novelty and escape. Klint talked with me during his recent stop in New York about his time aboard the thirty-meter Opal.

 What was your favorite part of the trip so far?
Eddie: The places I found the most interesting were the places that were most foreign to me. Like Morocco and Cape Verde and Brazil, Belém especially.

 Is this the first time that you’ve taken a sailing trip like this?
Eddie: Nope. Well, this is the first time it was this long, but this same ship, Opal, was on a two-year trip twelve years ago. My relationship to the boat is that my dad helped build the boat so I’ve always been sailing with the ship since I was a kid. Twelve years ago I did my first long trip. My brother, my dad, and I flew down and sailed with the ship for three months in Venezuela and Cuba. So that’s where it started, because since that trip we have always been talking about going on a trip again. We’ve kind of been hoping and waiting for our parents to do another trip, but they never did. So eventually we became old enough and figured out that, ok, we have to be the ones that plan the trip. So I guess it’s like an a longtime dream coming true.

 You said at one point you had over twenty people on the ship. Who were all the other people with you?
Eddie: Well, the people basically are just friends, family, and other people who contacted us. A lot of the people are friends and family that we already knew, but quite a few have also been people we didn’t know that contacted us regarding the trip and then they came along. So a lot of new friends as well. But it’s basically just been open for everybody. It’s vacation on a shared basis—if you can call it that. It’s not charter or anything, nobody makes money off it. We all just split the bill, and everybody pays for the food and maintenance. And then we do most of the work ourselves and then buy the materials to fix the boat up. So that sets us apart, it’s unique. But it’s also a lot of work to maintain a ship like this.

 Do you think you want to go on another trip like this?
Eddie: Yes, definitely.
 Where would you go?
Eddie: Next time I would go to the Pacific. I would start from Denmark, just cross the Atlantic, and then sail through the Panama Canal and out into the Pacific. Definitely. It should be amazing. Also, it’s the largest ocean and they have so many thousands of islands. I had a friend who did a two-year stint in the Pacific, and he came to one island and they hadn’t seen any foreigners for one and a half years. So you can get to these places that are still really untouched. Yeah, I love the Pacific.

 Does your father build ships for a living?
Eddie: He used to. He was educated as a shipbuilder, and he does more carpentry now. People don’t get wooden boats these days, it’s more fiberglass so there’s not really that much work in boatbuilding. So he does carpentry now in general, mostly kitchens. He did the kitchen on the ship.
How did you learn to sail?
Eddie: I never went to a class. I’ve never sailed on a small boat, it’s always been this boat. I’ve had a few trips on smaller boats, but mostly it’s been this boat, so I know how to sail this really well because I grew up on it. But a lot of things are different from smaller boats to bigger boats; you need a lot more people to do stuff with all the sails that maybe one or two guys could do on a smaller boat. But that’s basically just how I learned, growing up on this. Every summer, my whole life, we’ve been doing summer trips sailing around Denmark and Sweden.

Yeah, I was surprised at how big the boat is. I was expecting something more like those…
Eddie: A small one? (Laughs) Yeah, I know, it’s a big one. It’s a really cool story. Magnus, the one we did the trip with, his dad and a friend bought the hull of the ship in the ’70s and it was just a fishing trawler. I can show you pictures. It was almost a wreck—really, really old and destroyed. It didn’t have a mast, anything at all. It used to have just a motor and that was it. They bought it in their early 20’s, and then they wanted to renovate it and transform it into a sailing vessel and sail it around the world. They thought it was going to take two years and then be done and then they were going to sail around the world. But it took them ten years. (Laughs) So, it took a bit longer. They didn’t have any money so they did everything themselves. That’s also what is so charming about the boat—everything you see, they built it. And there’s pictures in the albums we have on the ship of the way they went to the forest and cut down the trees for the mast and took the bark off. My dad was in the same school as Jacob, the owner, so he was in on the project from the beginning, helping to build it, even before my brother and I were born.

Where are you heading next?
Eddie: We’re going to head down the Hudson River and then up the East River and then out through Long Island Sound. We are going to stop at a place called Mystic Seaport and get the last things fixed on the boat and get all the food. That’s going to be actually the longest stretch on the whole trip, the one from the States to the Azores in the North Atlantic. That’s about 2,000 miles, so it could be like three weeks on the ocean depending on how fast we go. It’s all about the weather.
Thank you Eddie!!

CBS Daytime #1 for 30 years!

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This week marks the 30th consecutive year at #1 for CBS Daytime, which includes “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Let’s Make a Deal,” “The Price is Right,” “The Talk” and “The Young and the Restless.” The winning streak began in 1986 and remains one of the longest in television history - reaching 117.6 million viewers in all.

'Price Is Right' Crosses Over With 'The Talk' to Celebrate CBS Daytime's 30-Year Winning Streak

With The Price Is Rightcelebrating its streak as the longest-running game show in TV history, CBS is commemorating 30 years as the No. 1 daytime network with a week of exciting crossovers.       

                            

The celebration kicks off Monday when The Talk's Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne are featured as models on The Price Is Right, now in its 45th year.                                                          

"We had all the right moves," Chen told ET while on the Price Is Right set.

                                                                                                          

Julie Chen and Osbourne were joined by The Young and the Restless stars Peter Bergman, Joshua Morrow and Jason Thompson; The Bold and the Beautiful stars Pierson Fode, Katherine Kelly Lang and Heather Tom; and Let's Make a Deal's Tiffany Coyne and Jonathan Mangum.                                       

"You come into this studio, it's so bright and fun," Osbourne gushed to ET. "We were just saying what a great place to work every day!"

                  

Host Drew Carey seems to agree. It's almost been a decade since he took over for Bob Barker, who led the iconic game show for nearly 35 years.

                       

"I feel like a new kid," Carey said. "I'm only in my tenth year."

“This winning streak is an incredible source of pride for all of us at CBS,” said Angelica McDaniel, Executive Vice President, Daytime Programs, CBS Entertainment. “It speaks to three decades of great storytelling from the best creative artists in front of and behind the camera, and the amazing support from a very passionate and loyal fan base.”

Full broadcast year highlights for the soap operas include… “The Young and the Restless” remains at number one with 5.20 million viewers with the highest rated in women ages 25 to 54 (1.8 million) and women 18 to 49 (1.2 million). “The Bold and the Beautiful” ranked second with 3.96 million viewers, 1.5 million women ranging from 25 to 54.

The Talk To Celebrate CBS Soaps Stars!

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CBS Daytime is commemorating 30 years at #1 with a variety of celebrations. From special programming to can’t-miss events, to classic video moments, photo galleries and promotions on each show’s website and CBS Daytime’s social media platforms.

The network kicks off the celebration the week of October 10th with crossovers abound for all of the five CBS daytime programs starting with Y&R’s Jason Thompson, Peter Bergman, Joshua Morrow and B&B’s Pierson Fode, Katherine Kelly Lang and Heather Tom appearing on The Price Is Right.

Then on October 12th, it’s a big day for soap fans on The Talk when the ladies welcome cast members from Guiding Light, As the World Turns and Y&R and B&B!  Meanwhile, The Price is Right’s George Gray appears on the day’s episode of Y&R as a GC Buzz employee.

Mark October 13th for the return of The Talk’s Sheryl Underwood as Emmy on The Bold and the Beautiful, while ‘Price Is Right”s Amber Lancaster plays a model in a Brash & Sassy campaign.

In addition, CBS Daytime is unveiling the special exhibit, “CBS Daytime #1 For 30 Years,” at Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Calif., honoring the Network’s five current shows, as well as legacy programs, including As the World Turns and Guiding Light.

 The exhibit, which runs Oct. 12 – Nov. 27, includes original set pieces, one-of-a-kind memorabilia and interactive elements to give fans a unique, hands-on experience. Also, four consecutive weeks of special panels are planned, featuring talent and producers from the CBS Daytime lineup. More details will be available shortly.

“CBS Daytime’s schedule of top-rated, award-winning programs has been a daily destination for viewers for more than three decades, becoming part of the fabric of America in the process,” said Angelica McDaniel, Executive Vice President, Daytime Programs, CBS Entertainment. “We have the best fans in television who join us every day to laugh, love, chat and cheer. Our celebration of 30 years at #1 honors the hard work of our cast, staff and crew and thanks our audience for their passion and loyalty.”