from today’s New York Times, and just in time for you to go out and get something appropriate to wear to my opening in New York:
…Mr. Varvatos’s challenge to the status quo for men was meek in comparison with that of John Bartlett, who based his collection on a hairy and hypermasculine segment of the gay population known as “bears,” and within that category of manly gay men, a subset that paradoxically likes fashion. As Mr. Bartlett described the clothes — including a loden cashmere peacoat and see-through merino wool long johns he set to a dance remix of the music from “Brokeback Mountain” — what makes them more appealing than, say, an affordable wool jacket from Pendleton, is that “even the most butch of creatures love luxury.”
Some designers would tell men that the difference between luxury and affordable is a matter of apples and oranges. But not Mr. Bartlett, who sees only bananas.