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PHOTOS: Gay Classic “Querelle” Gets Fashion Makeover In “Harper’s Bazaar China”

1982’s Querelle — adapted from Jean Genet’s 1947 novel Querelle de Brest — starred Brad Davis as the infamous homme fatale Georges Querelle, a lascivious Belgian sailor who sleeps, steals and murders his way through Brest, France while there on shore leave.

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It’s like On the Town without the songs and if Gene Kelley and Frank Sinatra just gave into their passions and called it a gay. Querelle remains a classic today not only in the queer cinematic canon but as director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film.

Harper’s Bazaar China took a page and a still from Querelle for a stunning editorial shot by Feng Hai and styled by Wei Yang with model Tarik Lakehal slipping into the seaman’s high-waisted pants.
Tarik-Lakehal-Harpers-Bazaar-China-1Tarik-Lakehal-Harpers-Bazaar-China-8Tarik-Lakehal-Harpers-Bazaar-China-3Tarik-Lakehal-Harpers-Bazaar-China-7I could’ve used some more man-on-man action, but when can’t I? Check out more photos from the shoot at The Fashionisto.


Les Fabian Brathwaite — our lady of the showers. 

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