But maybe there is some hope yet that the macho role models like Schwarznegger and Stallone are giving way to a more caring type of male.
Move over Rambo, you're cramping new man's style
"PARIS (AFP) - Macho man is an endangered species, with today's male more likely to opt for a pink flowered shirt and swingers' clubs than the traditional role as family super-hero, fashion industry insiders say.
A study along these lines led by French marketing and style consultants Nelly Rodi was unveiled to Fashion Group International during a seminar Tuesday on future strategy for the fashion industry in Europe.
"The masculine ideal is being completely modified. All the traditional male values of authority, infallibility, virility and strength are being completely overturned," said Pierre Francois Le Louet, the agency's managing director.
Instead today's males are turning more towards "creativity, sensitivity and multiplicity," as seen already in recent seasons on the catwalks of Paris and Milan."
thanks to Cap'n Marrrrk for the link!
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I am bewildered;why are people so amazed that fashion changes? We know that things grow old and go out of fashion, to be replaced by something even older. The John Wayne machismo replaced the 19th century dandy. The 17/18th century Patriarch all powdered and fluffed; standing hip shot and crook wristed looking so genteel. The Age of Chivalry where men were expected to know music and art and recite poetry. Even the ancient Celts went through a time of primping and preening. Thus it has ever been. Even the NEW Male will eventually give way to a NEW Machismo.
Why does this astound everyone? Why does everyone marvel and analyse it to death?
Ecclesiastes 1: 9-11
9: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
10: Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us.
11: There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.
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