2022 is the year the summer suit officially got its sexy back - British GQ

Some of us were quick to assume that the Covid-19 had finally killed off the suit after the rise of streetwear had largely pushed it – and menswear’s smarter garments – out of favour. However, while the pandemic might have given rise to remote working culture and relaxed office dress codes forever, all it really meant for the suit is that it had to reinvent itself as a means to survive.

And so it has, as designers have stripped the starch and pulled the traditional tailoring template apart in a bid to restitch suiting in appealing new ways. These days, the most exciting ones in menswear are not the stiff and buttoned-up ones of yesteryear, the ones that made us all feel like corporate drones or cogs in a machine, but ones that would make us stand out. They are generously proportioned, provocative, cut from sumptuous fabrics and available in colours that’d make staunch suit loyalists roll in their graves. This season, the suit has officially got sexy.

All you have to do is look at the SS23 shows to see it. For Saint Laurent, creative director Anthony Vaccarello presented versions of the suit that possessed a silky fluidity to them: slouchy oversized jackets and lanky pants paired with gauzy tops that clung to the torso, or nothing at all so that oil-misted chests were on display. Over at Paul Smith, they were boxy, blousy and low-buttoned and had a jazz-age loucheness and looseness to them, while dutch designer Dries Van Noten took inspiration from the 1940s Zaous in Paris, and the Buffalo club scene in 1980s London - both establishments where loud, bodacious clothing dominated. The result: trousers of great sweeping proportions and blazers that were synched at the waist.

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Watch the Fun, Sexy, Sporty Full Trailer For 'A League of Their Own' - Out Magazine

It’s time to play ball!

The first trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming A League of Their Own series has dropped, and we can’t wait to get out to the ballpark. Based on the classic movie, but going deeper into issues of race, gender, and sexuality, A League of Their Own was created by Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham and is coming this August to Prime Video. Let’s take a look at this new preview.

Right off the bat, we get a great look at what type of character series creator Abbi Jacobson will be playing. Her Idaho housewife Carson Shaw is running for a train, about to miss it when she jumps on at the last second. This is a go-getter and someone desperate to play.

Soon, we meet more of the players, including D’arcy Carden’s Greta and Melanie Fields’ Jo, who look inspired by Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell’s characters from the original film.

“Hey you, you’re clearly going to tryouts,” Jo says.

“She doesn’t look like that much competition,” a gorgeous Greta adds.

“I can be competition. I think,” Shaw replies.

Apart from Shaw, we also meet the series’ other lead, Max Chapman, a Black woman who wants to be a pitcher, played by Chanté Adams. When she shows up to try out, she’s rejected and told, “I don’t think you understand. This is the All-American League.”

“We’re pretty All-American,” she responds, before throwing a ball all the way across the field and into the stands. It’s another callback to the original movie, which had one scene where a Black woman similarly throws the ball better than anyone on the team actually can. But here, that woman is one of the protagonists.

Later in the trailer, we see Max trying out for a different team, one that requires her dressing up like a boy and getting a job at a factory. Adams shines in the trailer and looks like a breakout star.

“Peaches, I’d like to go through a few rules,” the team’s chaperone says, followed by a montage of the Peaches breaking all these rules. “Curfew is at 10pm sharp. No smoking, or drinking. No pants.” If this trailer is any indication, this is going to be one fun and wild team of ball players!

There’s also plenty of great baseball footage since this is a baseball show after all. And, of course, there’s some lesbianism! At the end of the trailer, we see some sapphic glances exchanged between Shaw and Greta, and even a quick glimpse at a scene of them holding hands!!

This really is going to be the gay baseball show of our dreams. This show is going places (including the Emmys) so get on board early!

A League of Their Own premieres its first three episodes on August 12 on Amazon Prime Video.

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11 Sexy Pics of Queer Eye's Antoni to Celebrate His Anniversary - Pride.com

Antoni Porowski became a household name basically overnight after becoming the food and wine expert on Netflix’s Queer Eye.

In 2018, Netflix introduced the world to a brand-new Fab Five. Along with Porowski, the streaming giant introduced audiences to Bobby Berk (design expert), Jonathan Van Ness (grooming expert), Karamo Brown (culture and lifestyle expert), and Tan France (fashion expert). Overall, these five Queer Eye cast members became mainstream sensations immediately after appearing in the reboot.

Thankfully, Queer Eye was only the beginning for Porowski, who has expanded his career into several different ventures and joined numerous projects in Hollywood. For one, the Fab Five member has published two books so far: 2019’s Antoni in the Kitchen and 2021’s Antoni: Let’s Do Dinner. Porowski has also taken a dip into acting in projects such as The Pretenders, Queen, and the upcoming film Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies.

Porowski has also been very successful in his personal life and recently celebrated a major milestone in his love life. As of July 2022, the Queer Eye star shared an Instagram post celebrating his three-year relationship anniversary with his boyfriend Kevin Harrington, who works as a creative director in New York City. “Here’s to three years of asking our friends to take way too many pics like these,” Porowski wrote in the caption.

What better way to celebrate thier love than some sexy pics of Porowski and few of the happy (hot) couple together. Raise a glass because youre about to be very thirsty.

Scroll through to see sexy pictures of Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski and make sure to follow him on Instagram via @antoni.

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After Ukraine, Even Sexy Startups Aren’t Ashamed of Military Ties - The Wall Street Journal

An illustration of the Overture jet by Boom Supersonic, which unveiled a new production design during the 2022 Farnborough International Airshow.

Photo: Boom Supersonic

Even venture capitalists may learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Friday marked the end of the 2022 Farnborough International Airshow, where the global aviation industry gathered in full for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. Apart from a decent amount of orders for Boeing’s once-troubled 737 MAX and a lot of mulling over supply-chain delays, the event was notable for a subtle shift: Aerospace startups no longer feel the need to whisper when talking about their military potential.

Denver-based venture Boom Supersonic, which aims to revive the Concorde with greater comfort and lower fares, announced a collaboration with Northrop Grumman to find defensive use cases for the plane. Boom already had agreements with the U.S. Air Force to potentially transport diplomats and leaders. Previously, though, the company’s founder and chief executive, Blake Scholl, who comes from the technology industry, had appeared reluctant to go much further.

The partnership with Northrop won’t involve anything that goes “boom” on the ground, but it could lead to full-on military missions such as reconnaissance, command and control, and troop transport. “I don’t see those as weaponizing the airplane,” Mr. Scholl said Tuesday.

It makes perfect sense for him to tap what he called “the other half of the market”: Almost all big aerospace companies cater to both and, in a choppy market that has turned its back on pre-revenue ventures like Boom, startups need new sources of capital. Military applications are, after all, where supersonic propulsion survives today, given the many impediments to its commercial use—like high carbon emissions.

Still, Boom’s acknowledging this in a flashy presentation showcases how even “sexy” startups that appeal to Silicon Valley types are now far less embarrassed to publicize their ties to the defense industry.

In recent times, the increase in Pentagon budgets and the maturity of the tech sector have driven giants like Amazon.com, Google and Oracle to bid hard for defense contracts, and given way to a crop of younger players that directly serve this market, such as Palantir, Anduril and drone maker Shield AI. Set against this, however, a renewed focus in the investment industry on environmental, social and governance factors—collectively known as ESG—has diverted money away from military contractors.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year seems to have laid any supposedly ethical concerns to rest at supersonic speed. Raytheon Technologies Chief Executive Greg Hayes argues that defense companies are defending democracy, and this is certainly the new narrative.

“Two years ago many of the European money funds wouldn’t touch Raytheon,” Mr. Hayes said in an interview. “All of the sudden, we’ve become investible from an ESG perspective because of our mission.”

Many Scandinavian investment companies, including SEB, have disclosed their change of heart. There are even serious lobbying attempts to push the European Union to include defense companies in its new standardized ESG taxonomy. Military stocks are up 8% this year, compared with a 16% fall for the S&P 500.

One big takeaway is that ESG talk is all but meaningless, and should be discarded in favor of stand-alone “E” metrics—the only ones that can be objectively measured without recourse to the political views du jour.

The other is that, amid rising geopolitical tensions, some of the moonshots now spurned by public markets could find solace in military funding. These include small-satellite launchers like Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit, which are just starting to take advantage of Washington’s interest in “responsive” launches and hypersonic weapons, as well as air-taxi manufacturers such as Joby Aviation,

which are working on military applications but have de-emphasized them in favor of ill-defined passenger demand.

In a turbulent market, nothing brings certainty like money from the Pentagon.

Write to Jon Sindreu at jon.sindreu@wsj.com

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After Ukraine, Even Sexy Startups Aren’t Ashamed of Military Ties - The Wall Street Journal

An illustration of the Overture jet by Boom Supersonic, which unveiled a new production design during the 2022 Farnborough International Airshow.

Photo: Boom Supersonic

Even venture capitalists may learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Friday marked the end of the 2022 Farnborough International Airshow, where the global aviation industry gathered in full for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. Apart from a decent amount of orders for Boeing’s once-troubled 737 MAX and a lot of mulling over supply-chain delays, the event was notable for a subtle shift: Aerospace startups no longer feel the need to whisper when talking about their military potential.

Denver-based venture Boom Supersonic, which aims to revive the Concorde with greater comfort and lower fares, announced a collaboration with Northrop Grumman to find defensive use cases for the plane. Boom already had agreements with the U.S. Air Force to potentially transport diplomats and leaders. Previously, though, the company’s founder and chief executive, Blake Scholl, who comes from the technology industry, had appeared reluctant to go much further.

The partnership with Northrop won’t involve anything that goes “boom” on the ground, but it could lead to full-on military missions such as reconnaissance, command and control, and troop transport. “I don’t see those as weaponizing the airplane,” Mr. Scholl said Tuesday.

It makes perfect sense for him to tap what he called “the other half of the market”: Almost all big aerospace companies cater to both and, in a choppy market that has turned its back on pre-revenue ventures like Boom, startups need new sources of capital. Military applications are, after all, where supersonic propulsion survives today, given the many impediments to its commercial use—like high carbon emissions.

Still, Boom’s acknowledging this in a flashy presentation showcases how even “sexy” startups that appeal to Silicon Valley types are now far less embarrassed to publicize their ties to the defense industry.

In recent times, the increase in Pentagon budgets and the maturity of the tech sector have driven giants like Amazon.com, Google and Oracle to bid hard for defense contracts, and given way to a crop of younger players that directly serve this market, such as Palantir, Anduril and drone maker Shield AI. Set against this, however, a renewed focus in the investment industry on environmental, social and governance factors—collectively known as ESG—has diverted money away from military contractors.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year seems to have laid any supposedly ethical concerns to rest at supersonic speed. Raytheon Technologies Chief Executive Greg Hayes argues that defense companies are defending democracy, and this is certainly the new narrative.

“Two years ago many of the European money funds wouldn’t touch Raytheon,” Mr. Hayes said in an interview. “All of the sudden, we’ve become investible from an ESG perspective because of our mission.”

Many Scandinavian investment companies, including SEB, have disclosed their change of heart. There are even serious lobbying attempts to push the European Union to include defense companies in its new standardized ESG taxonomy. Military stocks are up 8% this year, compared with a 16% fall for the S&P 500.

One big takeaway is that ESG talk is all but meaningless, and should be discarded in favor of stand-alone “E” metrics—the only ones that can be objectively measured without recourse to the political views du jour.

The other is that, amid rising geopolitical tensions, some of the moonshots now spurned by public markets could find solace in military funding. These include small-satellite launchers like Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit, which are just starting to take advantage of Washington’s interest in “responsive” launches and hypersonic weapons, as well as air-taxi manufacturers such as Joby Aviation,

which are working on military applications but have de-emphasized them in favor of ill-defined passenger demand.

In a turbulent market, nothing brings certainty like money from the Pentagon.

Write to Jon Sindreu at jon.sindreu@wsj.com

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This Sexy New Ice Cream Dance Is Everything Right About Fortnite - GameSpot

In Fortnite, there's a character who is more or less a human-sized ice cream cone with arms, legs, and--on top of everything else--a face. And this week, to kick off Fortnite's No Sweat Summer event, he's released a suggestive hip-hop song and dance about eating ice cream that's got everybody in the metaverse losing their minds in one way or another. Nobody's neutral here. Folks either love the new in-universe song by sentient ice cream cone Lil Whip, or they find it profoundly horrible.

For me, the new emote corresponding with Lil Whip's hip-hop track, Drippin' Flavor, is a masterpiece of both song and dance. But more importantly than that, it's a distillation of what has given Fortnite its staying power: this willingness to put a lot of effort into being extremely stupid.

This is one of those things that you kinda need to see for yourself, so if you haven't seen this beautiful abomination yet, you should take a moment to watch at least some of this little music video that one of Epic's content creator partners put out at the start of Fortnite's No Sweat Summer event.

Just so we all know what we're dealing with here, these are the lyrics for this part of the song: "MMMMMMM/ Lil Whip, Lil Whip Lil Whip/ MMMMMMM/ Take your pick/ Take a lick/ Just like this/ MMMMMM/ Whip it up/ Lil Whippin' in your cup/ MMMMMMM/ Lil Whippin'/ Drippin' flavor/ That's what's up."

Remember, this is a song about ice cream, so it's not sexual! It just FEELS like it is--you can't mention licking stuff in a song if you want to avoid that vibe--and that's a big part of what set off the legions of haters when we first learned about the song.

Somebody who's new here might look at this Lil Whip situation and see some kind of failure. After all, when the emote leaked on Sunday night/Monday morning, the response among the Fortnite community was nearly universally one of disgust. It's easy to see why: The vocals grated, and the lyrics seemed weirdly sexual for a song that's just about eating ice cream--Epic may have let things get out of hand with all those "MMMMMMMMM"s. And the dance definitely includes some of those pelvic motions that freaked people out a half-century ago.

But this ain't a failure. Not even remotely. Drippin' Flavor is a fun song, and the dance fully owns. I've used this thing as my victory royale celebration a few times, and I don't think I'll be using any others for my taunts any time soon. I've stood in a crowded Party Royale bathroom doing this ice cream sex dance with a horde of randoms, and it was beautiful.

Even Ariana Grande and the Xenomorph from Alien are getting in on the Lil Whip craze.

But what really makes it work is the thing that has made Fortnite work since Epic introduced the battle royale mode: just the sheer gall of this shit. This emote is outrageous. A song about eating ice cream that has weird sexual overtones, written and performed by an ice cream cone man, and I can make Thanos and Darth Vader and Superman and Robocop and Ariana Grande do the dope suggestive dance that goes with it? This is squarely within the box of stuff that I want out of Fortnite, delivered with legitimately high quality. I'm not sure I've ever felt this pandered to by any entertainment product that wasn't directed by Michael Bay.

I'm a simple guy, you know? I didn't become a Fortnite guy because I love battle royales or because I thought it was an exceptionally fun game. No, I became a Fortnite guy because I could make Will Smith's character from the Bad Boys movies do the Gangnam Style dance. Hundreds of dollars in microtransactions and a year of "getting good" later, I'm still really just this idiot who wants to make my digital doll do a stupid dance. I play Fortnite for the memes.

And this is as meme-y as it gets, even in Fortnite. Lil Whip also exists as a non-player character in Fortnite's world who you can interact with during battle royale matches. When you find him, this guy even has some weirdly suggestive dialogue that might come up, such as: "If you don't want it in a cone, I can squirt it into a loose paper bag." That's not dirty at all, but it sure does sound like it is.

I can't get enough. Over the next week I'll probably use that Drippin' Flavor twice as much as all my other emotes combined (that's probably a conservative estimate, since I don't even want to use any of the other ones right now). It'll stay on my locker wheel maybe forever.

This song is a bop, and the dance rules, and the whole deal is divisive in a way that doesn't matter. Sounds to me like Lil Whip's Drippin' Flavor is the song of the summer.

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