Men's Style Debut
New York Magazine Launches First Men's Style Issue Featuring Elliot Page
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New York Magazine has launched its first standalone Men’s Style issue, an 89-page edition with four covers that takes an unconventional approach to men’s fashion and features a photo essay at Manhattan’s Russian & Turkish Baths. One cover features actor Elliot Page, photographed shirtless in shorts, alongside a lineup that includes Troye Sivan and other artists and public figures. Page also discusses visiting a bathhouse and becoming more comfortable in that setting. The cover drew sharply divided reactions online: some critics objected to Page’s inclusion in a men’s style issue, while coverage from LGBTQ-focused outlets presented the shoot as a celebration of queer culture and the bathhouse scene.
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The magazine framed the edition as an expansion of its longstanding men’s-fashion coverage: earlier pieces included a 1971 story asking whether men would wear high heels and a 1996 review of male supermodels. The new issue also covers men’s health.
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The Russian & Turkish Baths opened in 1892 in a basement on East Tenth Street. The facility’s history has included patrons ranging from gangsters and artists to politicians.
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The issue’s other feature topics include “The Armani Succession,” “The Chrome Flippers,” and a piece about artist Alex Katz and model Wisdom Kaye.
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Page said that when he sings in the shower, songs that get stuck in his head include Cher’s “Do You Believe in Life After Love?” and a song from “The Sound of Music,” a movie he said he had never seen.
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