Ever since honeys was wearin Sassoons.

Sexy John!

Kim Jung Gi

Patton classics

David Bowie

kuniyoshi kaneko - le peche original

Drawing by Klaus Voormann, 1966

“Autoestimadero” Boceto 01 / Digital / 35 dibujos / 2016

Cher kicking that Beer Can in 'Moonstruck' (1987)

In the early decades of the 1900’s, Leydendecker would have been a household name that everyone knew but it was J.C. name and not his younger brother Frank that would make its mark on Illustration history. It was Joseph Christian that helped to define “The Jazz Age” and create in “The Arrow Collar Man” the coded homoerotic male sex symbol of its time, receiving more fan letters than Valentino, while Frank was destined to live in the shadow of his older brothers fame. After returning from studying in Paris, the gay brothers set up a studio in NY when an unemployed, untalented actor, who was to become that sex symbol “Arrow Collar Man”, Charles Beach knocked on the studio door and was hired by Frank, in awe of his, by all accounts, amazing beauty. Frank immediately fell in love but it was J.C. who got the eye candy. (J.C. and Charles remained together for 50 years) Frank continued to attempt to claw his way out of the shadows of his brother, though talented he lacked the work ethic, focus and ambition. So J.C. not only got the man but the career, financial success and the lasting legacy. Frank, on the other hand, got the drug and alcohol addiction when the two young brothers were socializing and studying art in The Belle Epoch Paris. In 1923 it all came to a head between the brothers and Frank left J.C.’s estate to live in a space above mutual friend Norman Rockwell’s studio. The jealousy, resentment and addiction loosening his tether to reality, he died in 1924 at the age of 48 of either suicide or accidental overdose. It is said J.C. never recovered from Frank death. (Frank on left as JC leans in)

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