Antique statues with no hair except for a crotchless fuzz to the actor hairy and naked Burt Reynolds in the pages of Cosmopolitan in 1972, then on the “The gods of the stadium” calendar, featuring rugby players with pinpoint hairiness: the history of the representation of male hair, and the erotic gaze on it, is provided.
Waxed or free? This is the (fashion) question
In this episode of Everything is explained », we wonder about this hair of men with Denis Bruna, chief curator in the “fashion and textile” department at the decorative arts museum (MAD) in Paris, and curator of the exhibition “Hair and hair” at MAD, visible until September 17, 2023.
Denis Bruna, historian of clothes and appearances, wanted for this exhibition to question the body, and to take bodily materials, hair and body hair, to show that they are “convertible”. About the hair, we can, for centuries, let it grow, show it off, color it, curl it. How has hair been used to say something, to stage oneself, thus participating in the construction of appearances?
In this episode, we evoke the hair in the representation of male bodies. Hidden, exhibited, rigorously controlled, in each era its look and its representation of the hair of men’s bodies, on the torso, legs or pubis. What erotic connotation does it have? You will know everything. Good listening !
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