Dean Shepherd, editor of Gibbons Stamp Monthly, says that he has never seen homoerotic art on stamps before. The Tom of Finland Foundation has said his early process often involved "locking himself in his room, stripping naked, and stroking himself with one hand while the other hand created on paper what he could seldom find on the streets".Įven so, they are considerably more erotic than those usually seen on any nation's envelopes. His art very often pays tribute to a tumescence absent in the images chosen for these stamps. The male portraits on the Finnish stamps aren't the most explicit of the artist's work.
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He created an archive of erotica with a distinct aesthetic – vast-shouldered men in leather, denim and knee-high boots – that is said to have influenced figures including Robert Mapplethorpe, Freddie Mercury and the Village People. The images are by Tom of Finland, the legendary artist who was born in south-west Finland in 1920, and died in 1991.
Roy Halston Frowick (23rd April 1932 – 26th March 1990)Ī nipple, shapely buttocks and a muscular, moustachioed man smoking a cigarette – a new set of three stamps, to be issued in Finland in September, are among the most daring ever seen in the philatelic world. Even during his final months travelling to and from hospital (he died with AIDS-related Kaposi's Sarcoma), he retained his flamboyance - he purchased a chauffeured $200,000 Rolls-Royce Corniche to transport him and his family around, and instructed them to auction the car after his death for AIDS research.In an extraordinary move, in 1984, he was fired from his own company (after his drug use began to affect his work) and lost the right to design and sell clothes under his own name.His uniforms for Braniff International Airways staff revolutionised the "look" of the airline industry in the age of the "jet-set".
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So associated did his brand become with the fabric called Ultrasuede, that it was also used as the title of the biographical movie about Halston.He designed Jackie Kennedy's pill-box hat for her husband's presidential inauguration in 1961.And without Halston's business (and his influential friends), it would be hard to imagine how certain New York night-spots would have survived. One of the most successful fashion entrepreneurs in history, without his designs (jumpsuits as evening-wear, maxi and midi skirts, kaftans, flowing blouses, bibbity-bobbity hats - couture and off-the-peg), the 1970s would have looked very different. "You're only as good as the people you dress." Fiorucci." Names indelibly associated with Studio 54 and the last, riotously decadent days of Disco in particular, the first name - the man who made the scene so much of a magnet for the "beautiful people" - Liza, Liz, The Warhol-ites and the pop divas.
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