Handsome designer Thom Browne may need a new sartorial schtick.

Sure, critics loved his high-water suits, but Page Six offers a sobering wake-up call: [Browne] is a darling of the fashion elite, but the masses aren’t enthralled. Despite his being crowed over by the New York Times and vying for the CFDA menswear designer of the year award (he lost to Tom Ford), fashionistas point out Browne’s deal at Brooks Brothers is over, and just last month, Bergdorf Goodman was still selling his Spring 2006 tuxedos. “His stuff may be acclaimed, but it’s not very popular with the consumer,” one insider said. Browne’s rep didn’t return repeated calls. Wait - Bergdorf is still … Continued…

Designer Tom Ford enlisted some pretty models for his latest ad campaign.

And, as a permanent provocateur, he had one of the men, Brazilian Alex Schultz strip to his birthday suit.

Check out the NSFW results, after the jump.
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The New York Times style section today tackles a big, hard, throbbing sartorial debate: If Thom Browne has come to represent sartorial arrested development, the proponent of a kind of masculinity that suggests one is never sexier than when being carded, Tom Ford is a throwback to a different manliness. In one of those funny confluences that retailers like Bergdorf Goodman are seemingly built to showcase, the two designers and their variant ideas of how men should dress now find themselves cheek by jowl. We suggest Browne and Ford settle this the old fashioned way: naked oil wrestling.

It’s only fair…

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Former Gucci god and all-around homosexual Tom Ford designed the costumes for the Santa Fe Opera’s production of The Letter, which is apparently all sorts of sexy. [Santa Fe New Mexican]

Ugly Betty actress Becki Newton no doubt enjoyed herself at last night’s GLAAD Media Awards. Newton and her castmates, including the ever-adorable Michael Urie, took home the prize for outstanding comedy series, while fellow ABC show, Brothers & Sisters, won in the drama category.

Ms. Jackson if you’re nasty accepted the Vanguard Award, and got a little friendly with presenter Ellen DeGeneres. Kathy Griffin won for My Life On The D-List, and shared the award with her lovely mother, just like a gay man!

Tom Ford, meanwhile, awarded Herb Ritts a posthumous award, and a Medusa-esque Sharon Stone presented Rufus Wainwright with Stephen F. Kolzak award.

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Remember Tom Ford’s naughty cologne adverts? You know - the ones which Out adapted for its glossy pages (pictured)?

Well, now a web designer offered his own take - and it doesn’t stink.

The American Family Association has some bald-eagle eyes! We never would have noticed the Volvo C-30’s well-placed ad next to Tom Ford’s Out-sponsored tush!
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• You really do learn something new everyday. Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, whose work we’ve never read, apparently likes ladies. She liked a woman so much, in fact, she married one! Cornwell opens up to UK’s Telegraph about her wife, Dr. Staci Gruber: I finally feel rooted somewhere. I feel a sense of responsibility and stability that I didn’t have before.
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I’ve never been a soapbox person for gay rights, but now I’m in a same-sex marriage I tend to be more open, because I am outraged that it should be illegal in other states. Looking at this picture really puts things in perspective.

• Refinery 29 gets behind our imaginary main squeeze, Thom Browne.

• Barack, Babs, Oprah and Hillary get into a campaign menage-a-quatre.

• Legendary lobbyist Aubrey Sarvis goes after Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
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Some of the shots from Tom Ford’s shoot with Out proved to be too steamy for the gay glossy.

Not ones to waste a perfectly good Terry Richardson picture, the Out media machine’s circulating one particular shot, which they described to us as “super exclusive” but it’s already appeared on Radar, who claim the publicist has been saving just for them. Funny, we heard the same thing. How queer - and gay, too.

Of the shot, a boyish take on his vaginal cologne campaign, Ford says:
It was meant to be a play on the new [fragrance] campaign. But there’s a double standard with featuring female nudity and featuring male nudity. When people … Continued…

The Out staffers love their aforementioned Tom Ford feature so much, they’re sharing some exclusive Terry Richardson snap shots. And some quotes: I have to say that I don’t think gay is the most attractive word… Gay makes us sound silly and frivolous, which is probably where it came from - it was first used in a Cole Porter song in the ’30s - and I think it was probably a bit derogatory, and so it’s not a word I necessarily like, but it’s what I am, whatever. Ford also tells the gay glossy that most of his friends are straight men - and he has crushes on them.

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Tom Ford lets it all out in his forthcoming Out interview.

Apparently the former Gucci designer, seen here through Terry Richardson’s lens, couldn’t handle his unprecedented early success: Says Ben Widdicombe: …The man who built his fortune making schlubs like us jealous of his fabulous lifestyle (buy his $3,000 jacket and you can be cool, too!) is going through a midlife crisis.

“All of a sudden, I realized that 40 years had gone by, and I had everything that I ever wanted, and yet I wasn’t completely, deeply inside, happy or satisfied,” he says. “It was like, is that all there is?” Our virtual heart just broke… Oh, wait, that was nausea.

Tom Ford’s cologne doesn’t smell like cocaine! It smells like moist vagina!

• A look at Vogue’s first black cover model: Beverly Johnson.

• Another anti-gay Republican reverend bites the dust: D. James Kennedy dead at 76.

• Gay Blind Item Madness: which media “insider” enjoys a little ManHunt?

• Tom Ford’s a party monster.

• Queer copper stands up for equality.

• Anti-gay Ugandan not about Human Rights Watch’s meddling.

• Wait, straight people hustle for sex on Craigslist, too?

Always a class act, designer Tom Ford once likened his new cologne’s scent to that of a man’s crotch.

Now, we’re not sure where Ford’s fashionable nose goes, but his cologne’s apparently got another prominent, perhaps illicit aroma: …Does [Ford’s] scent Tuscan Leather actually smell like cocaine? Well, according to cognoscenti of that drug, yes, a bit. “That’s what everyone says,” admits a counterboy at the Ford store on Madison, who adds that one customer even bought a bottle because he thought it smelled like coke. Homeboy better watch out for drug dogs. And, also, ravenous coke heads looking for a fix.

Journo Geofrrey Gray points out, however, that Ford’s scent’s way more affordable than the … Continued…

Move over Tom Ford, there’s a new designer sex symbol on the block. A studly looking Marc Jacobs appears on Out’s September issue and let’s just say he’s letting it all hang out.

In addition to appearing nudie on the cover, Mr. MJ opens up about…well, everything, including his much-publicized relationship with former rent boy Jason Preston. I had a relationship with him, and it was crazy, and sometimes it was a lot of fun, and sometimes it was not a lot of fun, and the biggest frustration was that I wanted him to be something he wasn’t, and I don’t mean on a social level, and I don’t mean about his past or anything like … Continued…