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Love It: EH Best of the Week #10

The other parts of the world that aren’t America are celebrating the first day of summer. Doesn’t seem like that’s happening for us anytime soon meteorologically-wise, but NYC is kicking off its own mini-summer this weekend with The Governors Ball festival and the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic. See you there! (Pst, check our Insta-stories tomorrow for an inside scoop from both events.)

In other news, here’s a compilation of this week’s most fabulous, fresh, new, and just our faves!

EYES: IZIPIZI x MoMa Design Store, $45

Photo Courtesy of IZIPIZI.

The French-brand is renowned back home for being an affordable chic option for shades. Already available at Dover Street Market and Barney’s, this time around IZIPIZI made a special collaboration with MoMa. Yesterday’s launch of the pop two-colored sunglasses marks a classy yet funky combination that is a must-have for summer time (and a perfect gift!)

RUN: Sandro Two-Tone Leather Trainers, $305

Photo Courtesy of Sandro.

This pair of sneakers has a sense of American nostalgia of the the elegance of the 50s, and at the same time a European ease at the French Riviera. Pair with a variation on the marinière and pair of slacks and your Sunday brunch outfit is set.

DRINK: D’USSÉ Lemonade

Photo Courtesy of D’USSÉ.

Monday June 4th is National Cognac Day (not that we need a reason,) and D’USSÉ has some perfect options for the occasions. We recommend starting to celebrate early this weekend and making yourself a lemonade with a hint of cognac obviously! Recipe below.

1 1/2 oz- D’USSÉ Cognac
4 oz- Lemonade

Glassware: Highball

Garnish: Lemon Wheel

Method: Add D’USSÉ and lemonade into an ice filled Highball glass. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

DRAMA: The Boys in The Band featuring cover star Zachary Quinto

The highly anticipated revival of Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking play The Boys in the Band hit Broadway this week. Featuring an all-star cast including Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Andrew Rannells, and our own summer cover star Zachary Quinto, the play is a lively show chronicling the relationships between several gay men at a birthday party. Get your fix of drama by buying tickets here.

ART: Ierimonti Gallery

Photo Courtesy of Ierimonti Gallery.

A new installation from Ierimonti Gallery might satisfy your aesthetic whims. The new exhibition “The Place For Standing Still” from Iulian Bisericaru is a lively critique of environment versus architecture juxtaposed with plenty of abstract visuals. Pro tip: Grab a map of LES galleries from there and continue gallery hopping.

Zachary Quinto Becomes One of ‘The Boys in the Band’

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Images: Kevin Sinclair.
Styled by Joseph Episcopo.

When a gay actor in Hollywood embarks on press rounds to promote his latest project, there must be a pressure—not to mention, fatigue—he feels when faced with the inevitable subject of queer representation in the industry. Zachary Quinto, on the heels of a starring role in a Broadway revival of the classic and controversial 1968 play The Boys in the Band, is nonplussed.

That’s not to say that he is indifferent to the conversation. On the contrary, Quinto speaks about his role as a queer actor and the role Hollywood assumes in telling stories about marginalized people, like someone who is never not thinking about this, like someone who is careful with his words but not in a rehearsed “my publicist coached me” way.

“Masculinity,” Quinto begins. “It’s so intertwined with male identity. I think the journey of gay men, of openly gay actors, and the heteronormative idea of what masculinity is, is still at odds in Hollywood. I think it’s something that is changing, but hasn’t changed entirely. It still has a ways to go.”

His eloquence feels earned, particularly when you look at the characters he’s played on stage and screen. Quinto isn’t a stranger to legendary 20th century works by gay playwrights. He played Louis Ironson in a 2010 Off-Broadway production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Tom Wingfield in a 2013 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, and now Harold in Matt Crowley’s The Boys in the Band (produced by Ryan Murphy, who he also worked with on FX’s American Horror Story, and directed by Joe Mantello).

Given that Angels in America is currently running, The Boys in the Band feels like an odd choice to bring back (previews began on April 30 with the show opening on May 31), even though it boasts a cast that, in addition to Quinto, includes Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, and Jim Parsons—some of the most established out gay actors working today. Despite its historical importance, many consider it dated, a reaction that stems from a fierce protest of the work’s relevance when it was adapted into a film in 1970. The gay men in the play can feel like stereotypes. They’re loud, effeminate, shallow, and full of a powerful shame that didn’t resonate with audiences and readers as years passed.

Quinto doesn’t disagree, alluding to a time in college, at Carnegie Mellon, when he first read scenes from the play. But this time around, there was something that struck a chord. “Everybody is paranoid. Everybody is afraid. Everybody has internalized this hatred they’ve been pummeled with in the real world. How does that inform a character?” he explains before justifying the timeliness of Mantello’s revival.

The Boys in the Band is a contained work, a short play that takes place in one setting over a dinner party between several gay friends. At the time of its pre-Stonewall release, this felt important. Here are a bunch of men who are unapologetically themselves, and the play follows them through a night of heavy drinking, which opens doors to subtle and not so subtle tensions in their dynamics. It feels astonishingly open for its time in the way it broaches gay men’s relationships with themselves, and the ways in which they grapple with their own identities, which are things Quinto feels still matter.

“How far we’ve come socially, politically, legislatively in the last 50 years is one thing, but where are we in terms of self-acceptance? Self-love? I don’t think we live in a culture or society today that’s any more encouraging of loving ourselves than it was 50 years ago,” he says.

Although he appeared in FOX’s 24 and had a leading role on the short-lived but acclaimed VH1 series So Notorious alongside Tori Spelling, Quinto’s breakout was in the NBC sci-fi series Heroes, where he played villain Gabriel “Sylar” Grey. It was a standout role, one that led to his first film opportunity playing Spock in J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek reboot.

Considering these roles alongside his stage career and other choices—Quinto has a production company called Before the Door Pictures and has produced award-winning films like Margin Call (2011)—his decisions are pretty scattered. “A lot of the things that I’ve done have been zeitgeisty—American Horror Story and Heroes. Star Trek is very iconic. I remember that moment when I was doing Heroes and people didn’t know my name yet. It was a lot of, ‘Oh, you’re that character.’ I remember when it switched and people started recognizing me for myself.”

“[Heroes and Star Trek] was like hitting the lottery twice, as far as I’m concerned. Both of those projects were very sci-fi, comic book-y. That set a kind of expectation right away. Once you get known for something it becomes very difficult for people to know you for anything else.”

Quinto, 40, may be articulate and considerate when speaking about his career, but he also holds aspirations outside of the more stoic—and often frightening—characters he’s played.

He mentions that he wants to try funny again, referring to a small arc he had on HBO’s Girls. He played Ace, a bro-y artist and ex-boyfriend to Gillian Jacobs’ Mimi-Rose, the new girlfriend of Adam Driver’s character. He’ll get the chance to do so with Harold, a neurotic, quick-witted Jewish gay man who shows up late for his own birthday party in The Boys in the Band, but he seems eager to avoid stagnancy in his career.

This pervasive anxiety about being typecast, which feels inherent to any actor who takes on a larger than life role, extends beyond the sci-fi world for Quinto as well.

“I probably feel conflicted about the idea that one of the things that people feel is that it’s all that gay actors can do, which I vehemently disagree with,” he states, noting the hypocrisy in having straight actors play gay characters when gay actors aren’t as likely to have the opportunity in reverse. “It’s about working against the institutional homophobia that still relegates gay actors to playing gay characters, the idea that the only way as a gay actor to be viable in the broader industry is to stay in the closet or to deny your sexuality.”

Quinto, who came out publicly in 2011, rejects this. “I was, personally, not capable of making that sacrifice. It wasn’t worth it to me, and I wish it didn’t have to be worth it for other people.”

This story appears in our Summer 2018 issue, out now.

Zachary Quinto is On Top in ESSENTIAL HOMME Summer 2018

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Zachary Quinto talks about his role in the upcoming The Boys in the Band revival and queer representation in our summer issue.

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Images: Yuki Saito.

NEW ARRIVALS: The latest style collaborations and product launches, including Bally and Paul Smith.

Images: Fabian Ohrn.

SHARP SIGHT: Attention to cut elevates form to new levels.

Images: Léa Nielsen.
Styled by: Darryl Rodrigues.

UTILITARIAN FLEX: High-performance outerwear adapts to a climate in flux.

Images: A. P. Kim.
Styled by Terry Lu.

PROSE LEGATO: When roaming the course of the familiar, proceed in earnest.

Images: Thomas Goldblum.
Styled by Darryl Rodrigues.

A PLACID PLACE: Ryan Yoon travels the country shooting the understated serenity of American suburbia in an ongoing still-life photo series.

Images: Ryan Yoon.

FREEDOM & FUTURE: Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss is changing the world using fashion as canvas for social change.

Image: Marshall Roach.

Image: Cameron McNee.
Styled by Paul Frederick.

CENTURY AHEAD: LOUIS XIII and Pharrell Williams tease an ambitious release to challenge the world into combating climate change.

Images: LOUIS XIII.

POWER PLAY: Private Policy is the young design duo dominating the downtown scene.

Images: Brian Higbee.
Styled by Henna Koskinen.

MASTER CLASS: Another day, another iconic stage role for actor Zachary Quinto.

Images: Kevin Sinclair.

Styled by Joseph Episcopo.

CULTURE KID: Ben Sherman and House of Holland look to Britain’s historic Northern Soul scene in a club-inspired heritage collection for Fall/Winter 2018.

Images: David Urbanke.
Styled by Joseph Episcopo.

OH MAJESTY: For Pre-Fall 2018, Versace boldly showcases its espousal to opulence.

Images: Cyrill Matter.
Styled by Philipp Junker.

Naomi Campbell Hits The Paris Runway; Gasps Ensue

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Here’s Naomi!

Naomi Campbell opens the show for Versace

Twenty some hours ago, Naomi Campbell sent out a semi-cryptic tweet reading, “A Dreamcometrue guess where I am … ??” And while we immediately ‘guessed’ Paris Fashion Week, the why she was there proved a little more significant.

”I’m so happy to be here in Paris tonight to walk for Donatella. We’ve known each other over 25 years now. Straight away I felt like part of the family, everybody was so warm and supportive. And of course there was Gianni. Apart from being one of the most inspirational and respected of designers of all time, he was like a brother to me… always there in good and bad times the memory will never fade. So as you can tell this is an emotional evening for me. It really is a great privilege to be here.”

It’s been fifteen years since Campbell has worked the runway for Versace, so when the forty-three-year-old super-beauty hit the stage, the flashbulbs danced into an immediate cosmic trance.

Her first look, a bodysuit — emphasis on the body — was constructed using hook and eyes to hold the jacket together, while the fastenings were “left undone in certain places giving the impression of being undressed,” the house said, adding that each hook was held in place with Swarovski crystals.

Then she was back, closing out the show, this time offering even more leg in a body suit embroidered with black crystals and a woven mink fur and chiffon and silk tulle cardigan that breezed back and forth with each commanding step.

Donatella Versace was on hand sans her signature Marlboro Reds (“For the first month and a half, I had no desire to smoke. Now, all of a sudden, I see someone with a cigarette, I want to steal it.”) telling reporters ”I wanted to make [the show] new, and pictured a sexy and sophisticated woman with a strong attitude. Only a true icon like Naomi Campbell could open this show.”

Celebs including Uma Thurman, Emma Roberts, Mena Suvari, and Zachary Quinto were on hand (hiding any cigarettes, we hope) to watch Campbell do what Campbell do best. And she did.

CFDA: Behind The Scenes

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The 2013 CFDA Awards were held last night at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The 400+ members of the CFDA Fashion Awards Selection Committee (comprised of members of CFDA, top fashion retailers, journalists, and stylists) came together to choose the evening’s winners. And while the guest list was tight as ever, Style.com will be broadcasting the awards digitally later today as a consolation for many. In the meantime, we took things to Instagram to immerse ourselves in a little Behind-The-Scenes ventures of three of the evening’s noteworthy guests: Riccardo Tisci, Nicole Richie, and Andy Cohen.

First there’s preparation:

Riccardo Tisci began his evening getting prepped with his date, Adriana Lima, with the caption, “Get ready….cfda…..@adrianalima.”

Meanwhile, Nicole Richie was putting the crowning touches are her evening’s look (Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2013 collection, Louboutin clutch, Jennifer Meyer jewels, Giuseppe Zanotti heels).

Evening’s host, Andy Cohen, snapped a photo with his birthday buddy Zachary Quinto.

Richie then made her way to the show, first snapping a ubiquitous selfie.

Then it was time for the Red Carpet, where she huddled up with amazon Jessica Hart, describing this pose as “the only way I can take a photo with @1jessicahart #fiveoneisthenewblack.”

Then she sauntered over to snap a quick pic (and give a little side-boob) with friends Derek Blasberg and Alexander Wang.

Once inside, the Awards began (full list of winners below), where Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci took home the International Award.

Not pleased with the zoom (or lack thereof), he gave us a close-up.

Meanwhile, Andy Cohen posed backstage with a line-up of Icons: Anna Wintour, Hillary Clinton, Oscar de la Renta, and Diane von Fürstenberg. Earlier in the evening, Clinton presented de la Renta with the Founders Award, recalling her first time meeting Oscar in 1993. “I was hosting, along with my husband, the annual gathering for the Kennedy Center Honors. We were in the receiving line, and people were coming through, and they were making small talk. Along came Oscar and Annette, his fabulous wife. So I reached out to shake Oscar’s hand, and he looked me up and down and said, ‘That’s one of my dresses.’ I said, ‘Really?’” She paused, and then deadpanned: “I always have been, as I am now, such a fashion icon.” Hillary’s Night of a 1000 Laughs continued with her quipping, “Now that I have some more time on my hands,” she told the crowd, “I am going to be pitching Andy [Cohen] and others, a new show for Bravo … We can call it Project Pantsuit.” She gets it!

Four legends just wasn’t enough for Cohen, so he found a cozied up Calvin Klein & Donna Karan, and asked one of them to smile.

Meanwhile, a pixel perfect Tisci had one arm wrapped around his award and the other, the lovely Jessica Chastain.

Winners:

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler
Menswear Designer of the Year: Thom Browne
Accessories Designer of the Year: Phillip Lim for 3.1 Phillip Lim
Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year: Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty for Suno
Swarovski Menswear Designer of the Year: Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne for Public School
Swarovski Accessories Designer of the Year: Pamela Love

In April: Zachary Quinto and Alanis Morissette for Kiehl's

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Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cream may be good for your face, but come April it’ll also be good for the face of the planet. That’s when the product will be launched in two limited edition labels designed by Zachary Quinto and Alanis Morissette with 100% of the proceeds going to one of Kiehl’s favorite charities, Recycle Across America. While your face is getting smoothed over with the moisturizing effects of the cream’s glacial and desert plant extracts, the money you spent goes towards helping America getting some standardized recycling labels across the country. Now, that may seem like something that’s an easy-fix, non-problem but anyone who’s seen Porlandia…or has tried to throw something out in Northern California already knows…recycling isn’t as easy as you think. Check availability after the jump.

Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cream with labels designed by Alanis Morissette and Zachary Quinto ($46.50) will be available at Kiehl’s retail locations, Kiehls.com and at select department stores starting in mid-April.

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Love It: EH Best of the Week #10

Zachary Quinto Becomes One of ‘The Boys in the Band’

Zachary Quinto is On Top in ESSENTIAL HOMME Summer 2018

Naomi Campbell Hits The Paris Runway; Gasps Ensue

CFDA: Behind The Scenes

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In April: Zachary Quinto and Alanis Morissette for Kiehl's