GQ Models of yesteryear.

He looks old and young at the same time.

Walter

they don't make them like this anymore.

Why were all the models so old back then?

i was obsessed with Michael Ives at the timeout now I'm like"what?"

Rick again. Yes please

Is there even a market for male models anymore? I remember Bruce Vanderloo, Tyson and Marcus, but not ONE current male model

I used to love to get GQ when I was in High School in the early 80's it was like a portal to another world. Beautiful men and clothes. I eventually became a model but alas I was too short to really make it.

^ r8

Barry Kaufman (aka actor Robert Tyler) was the hottest.

Another of Barry Kaufman from inside the issue above.

OP!!!! Holy shit!!! RICK EDWARDS!!!! I was so in lust with him when I was 13!!! I didn't know his name, until now!!! I'm so blown away! I haven't seen that face in decades! I'm about to careen down an internet rabbit hole!!! See ya next week, this gurl has some stalking-- er, sleuthing-- to do!

Michael Flynn...

I loved Michael Ives. LOVED.

And I've never been into blonds.

Tip: Don't search for your childhood dreamboats today.

WHET Michael Josey, who was one of Bruce Weber's hotties for a second, then disappeared?

He made the cover of After Dark but I believe he was also featured in GQ.

MANSTYLE!

[quote]Tip: Don't search for your childhood dreamboats today.

He's still a handsome man and seems to have aged relatively well. He graduated from Yale in 1980, so 60-ish years old.

What?? No David White...one of the hottest men of the late 70s

r8 I will sit next to you, I also started reading GQ in high school in the 80's and the men then were the hottest.

Todd Ervin was gorgeous.

[quote]What?? No David White...one of the hottest men of the late 70s

You mean other than r3 who posted the identical GQ cover of him?

This thread isn't even that long.

And you know, of course, that David White had posed nude for Playgirl, right?

Even Fabio looked better then

Thom Fleming... YUM

Brian Buzzini was the only man to ever achieve any kind of name recognition in the male model world

R29 Ever hear of Marcus Schenkenberg?

Brian did nudies.

R7, Mark Vanderloo

^^Mark was famous late 90's right? I know he still models.

Today's models are celeb spawn.

He looks fine, R18. Don’t be such a queen.

Bob Archer....father of Devon Archer, who is Hunter Biden’s partner in crime.

Before the Internet there was GQ, INTERNATIONAL MALE, THE SEARS AND JCP CATALOGS .

Wouldn't Tyson Beckford be considered the most famous Male Model ever. Most name recognition. I can't name any other male models.

R38...please look at the title of this thread again, mmmmk?

Not an old yesteryear but old enough for me to post. This is the best Channing Tatum has ever looked. I was fascinated by this GQ cover.

mmm yep. Tyson Beckford would be considered "yesteryear" IMO.

Can someone help me identify the male model in a perfume ad I saw on GQ during that era. I thought I cum just looking at him. And the caption I remembered - “as well as in the bedroom” or something like that. Just wanna look at him again.

Wow. Never heard of David White but he is amazing looking. Any idea what happened to him?

R42 - a Paco Rabanne ad perhaps?

Love this. Robert Tyler was so crazy beautiful.

I loved this model. Don't know his name, though.

David White looked better without the porn stache.

R44 not that one. The ad is basically just a close upon of the face of the model. I thought he just have the sexiest face I’ve seen .

Brian Buzzini was so hot. Remember when he was on The People’s Court? David Speirs was so hot too. For those that think these models look old, this was when models were adults and not children.

WEHT Bob Menna?

I remember seeing a picture of David White from about 10 years ago. He was a nice-looking older man, probably late 50s/early 60s. I believe he owned a gym in either California or Florida.

I remember reading an article about David White a few years ago. He owned a gym in Knoxville TN (but it was being sold).

David white has a beautiful bush and huge balls in his Playgirl spread. I will link

Renauld White

R3 yummy. The combination of blue eyes and dark hair makes me moist every time.

Is David White the GQ cover model the same David White who appeared in Playgirl in Oct 1976?

There is a resemblance but he does look a bit different naked, slightly longer hair and with a mustache.

John Toppa, amazing.

Actor and model Jack Scalia

How could we have forgotten Tom Hintnaus

Are the two David Whites the same? Even outside the 70s porn mustache they don't seem to be the same man.

David White Playgirl

Fun article about a few of the top male models from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

^above. Yes they are the same David White.

Tony Spinelli

As one of the key figures of the 1970s modeling industry, Spinelli’s smoldering good looks could be seen everywhere from Halston’s debut ad campaign to Avedon’s landmark work for Versace. He was a frequent presence in the pages of Vogue, for which he was shot by Arthur Elgort, Helmut Newton, and Bob Richardson.

Tony: “ I was attending the New York Institute of Technology, and while I was studying there a lot of people told me that I should try modeling. Of course, you just blow that off in general conversation. It got to the point, though, where so many people said it that I started to take it seriously. A friend of mine knew of the Ford Agency. Ford would have open calls on Monday or Tuesday, so my friend brought me with her to see the men’s agents. I had just come back from Florida and I was tan, with long hair down my shoulders and a mustache. If you know anything about Ford back then, you know that was not the Ford look!

I had no idea who Eileen Ford was, but she was in the hallway as we arrived, and she came up to my friend and said, ‘What’s going on over here?’ Looking the way I did, Eileen must have thought I was there to pick up the trash! My friend said, ‘Eileen, this is my friend Tony, and he wants to be a model.’ Eileen took one look at me and said, ‘You have got to be kidding me.’ I got rejected from several agencies—Wilhelmina, Elite—but there was one new agency called Zoli that took me, long hair and all.

In the early ’70s I got to do an issue of GQ and that was probably my big break. The photographer at the time was Barry McKinley; working with him was one of my highlights, because by then I had shaved off the mustache. In your first year or two you’re trying just to find your look, find what you’re all about in this industry. Once I got rid of the mustache and cleaned myself up a bit, things really started to happen. I remember booking Vogue with Polly Mellen and Richard Avedon; it was absolutely amazing to be working with them. They were legends, but it wasn’t only them. I got to work with the best hair and makeup people—Way Bandy, Harry King, Sandy Linter. It was all about teamwork and collaboration, to get that end result.“

More thoughts from Tony:

“In the ’70s the business was much smaller than it is today. It was a close-knit group and very professional; everyone knew what they were doing. The photographer was a director, and there was always a story, an action or a reaction within the photograph that made you want to look at it. That has been lost in fashion, but you have to change in order to exist. Nothing stays the same forever, but I feel so fortunate to have been a part of the industry during that time, which was magical and magnificent.

Fashion has lost many of its most creative people—the Helmut Newtons, the Avedons, Horst, Scavullo, Penn—and while there are good photographers out there now, they don’t stick out in quite the same way. You can go on and on about that, but the creativity within the industry is what I miss most. You see it still in some of the advertising—the Versace ads, and Chanel is just outrageous, I love all that it does—but back then it wasn’t the advertising that pushed creativity, it was the editorial.

I did another issue of Vogue with Avedon and Mellen that wound up becoming one of the most controversial issues. Within the double page spread there is a shot where I slap Rene Russo. You could never do a shot like that in magazines today, people would boycott, but the image was part of the story we were trying to tell. Dick and Polly put together a story showing different aspects of a relationship, both good and bad.

I look at the fashion shows today and everyone looks the same, everyone walks the same. There isn’t really that opportunity to stand out; if you remember the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, you would know everyone on a runway by their first name. You had Linda, Stephanie, Pat [Cleveland], Alva [Chinn]—you just knew all these people and they were just so good at what they did. You see it with the men as well; right now it is harder to tell them apart because there are so many people within the industry and everyone is forced to fit the same mold. In the past, models were allowed to be individuals, they didn’t look the same, they had a style all their own, and that was the big difference.”

Bruce Hulse was everywhere in 1983

Bruce then...

...and now

All dead from GRID

Andrew Smith was a cutie

Brian Buzzini follows me on IG! Imagine!

Rick Edwards. Mmmmm

Playgirl made several attempts to encourage Rick Edwards to model for a centerfold. He never took them up on it.

Here's another Tony Spinelli. I remember seeing this in a mainstream magazine back in the 70s. He showed pubic hair! I was laying on my stomach reading and reflexively pressed my cock into the carpet. I creamed my jeans bigtime.

Jeff Aquilon is the Rosetta Stone of GQ models

How many of these guys did Bruce Weber grope?

As many as he could get away with.

I used to think Jeff Aquilon was the most beautiful amn on earth...

Which ones are/were gay?

David White then...

David White now...

David White between Then and Now...

Rick Edwards getting older...but I couldn't find a recent pic:

Are you sure that's Aquilon at R78? Doesn't look like him.

R81: Thanks

Rick Edwards was on "Santa Barbara" for a time where he was almost always shirtless.

Was it GQ or "Details" that were more known as magazines gay men preferred in their earlier days?

GQ

GQ's secret wasn't that it appealed to gay men. It was that its audience was well more than 50 percent black, something Conde Nast went to great pains to hide from advertisers and the media. Trust me -- I was writing for Art Cooper at the time and he was frantic about it.

Art was one of the worst editors I ever met --he died by falling over into his soup at the Four Seasons. Karmic end for a bad guy.

R89. That’s good background! And so true. I never worked w them but I remember a story years ago when gq was going down..... editors tried hard to skew readership away from African american community.

R70, Andrew Smith was my favorite, although he didn't do that much modeling work. For a while, he seemed to focus more on his competitive beach volleyball career.

Rick Edwards was a gorgeous guy.

I always dreamed of looking like these guys so much when I was young. When it hit me like a ton of bricks that I in no way could come anywhere near it I got really depressed and I never really got over it. I mean now obviously it doesn't mean that much but it would have been nice when I was young for a period of time to have been wildly attractive and to have travelled and partied and had relationships with people I was crazy about and not just be friends with. Being held at a distance because of being outright homely hurt deeply. And because gays at that time(maybe still? ) before AIDS could be beyond horrible, like being kept out of Studio 54 because you weren't good looking enough, sometimes totally ignoring you wasn't enough you had to be told you were too ugly. Yes I was one of those people who was told I couldn't have ice cream.

Rick Edward's Hair Restoration Testimonial:

[quote]Being held at a distance because of being outright homely hurt deeply.

You don't have to be "outright homely" to be held at a distance by the ultra beautiful, "average" will do too.

Jeff Aquilon today

I knew I was gay when I saw this photo Jeff Aquilon. I was twelve .

This article updates where those Yesteryear Models are today (well, as of 2016)

Yes R98 see R62

Ha! The average kept me at a distance too!

Ah well, it no longer really matters. Still...

ahem

When Bruce embraced his masculinity, he was a hot piece.

The Donald

Eww R103 ruined this thread!

Back on track.... Hart Bochner

^ Hart Bochner. Like 60 years old never married. Hmmmmmm

Don't forget about me! I played a little baseball too.

I own this thread! Jon Erik (one of the most attractive people ever).

Jon Erik Hexum

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, David White and Norbert Thomas were two male models who I would frequently see in ads and in my mom's Spiegel catalogs, and admire their looks. I didn't know what it was at the time, but they made me feel funny inside.

International Male catalog - THE BEST!

One Pirate shirt please!

Jim Palmer had a dad bod but that's an impressive bulge

Hart Bochner was gorgeous

A documentary about the International Male catalog is now in the works.

Tony Stephano

Jim Palmer always showed a small line of pubes just above the waistband of the underwear, just like in R107. You knew there was a massive bush down there. It drove me wild when I was a teenager. I'm surprised no one in major league baseball objected to it.

the model in clothes:

the model without, in Foxy Lady magazine.

This is a totally true story. I went to FIT. the Coty awards were held there and us students could “work” backstage if we wanted to...I volunteered. We had a break in the rehersal, and I went to the men’s room...just to take a whizz....in walked Jeff Aquilon. I DIED...well he took off his shirt, and began to have a little “bath” in the sink...nothing major, just washing his pits...I was frozen at the urinal...he put his shirt on and left. I totally took the paper towel he dried off with out of the garbage and ate it .

Why were you pre-AIDS gays so out of control?

In the 70s Edmund White wrote about rushing into a bathroom after a hot guy shit just to smell his gas. You ate paper Jeff Aquilon sweated on *out of a public trash receptacle*.

Did that not seem gross to you at the time, R120? To hear the eldergays tell it, you could've gotten fucked three times walking home from FIT— why were you compelled to do that?

Eat a dick r121

R121 Ever hear of the 5 second rule?? MORON

I can understand sniffing the paper towel, but EATING it?

That I don't get. Especially in an era when you could get as much cock and ass as you wanted.

It's actually a serious question.

I think R120 was overcome and starstruck. I believe it can happen.

I believe r121 may have been making something called a “joke.”

R121 why are you post AIDS guys such fat little puritanical morons? Serious question.

Edmund White was a nasty lil piggy

Male models in the 70s and 80s were masculine male ideals- very much men, not boys and androgynous as a lot of male models today. And most of them (at least in the 70s) were gay. In fact they were the magnets at clubs etc to attract the party boys in NYC and LA. In the Pines at tea they would line the staircase of the Botel. I knew many in the 70s when I came of age. They were even a bit cookie cutter when I think about it, 40 regular 5’11 or 6’. Randall Lawrence, Greg Bauer, Conrad Bell, Carlton Fuller, Loic, Ted Dawson, Joe MacDonald, Richard Smith, Freddy Suza and so on. Almost all victims of HIV. But OMG did I have fun and exceed my pubescent wet dream fantasies by miles. I had no interest in modeling- I was also 6’ 3” and a 42L so a bit wrong sized- models fit the clothes not the other way round. And luckily for some reason I knew when to go home so the fun never turned against me. And... my best friend to this day was a model as well- more specialty because he too was 6’3”, but very thin- he did adolescent work- and was an Interman in the Warhol rags. Today he occasionally does senior fitness stuff. He’s even better looking as an older man than he was as a young man. Anyway, we had fun and more incredibly, we survived. I did do some photo shoots with some of my friends and the photogs of the day- just for laughs and of course I’d do anything one of these guys asked me to do- well almost anything. A lot of those pics are surely in the files of the surviving photogs. Fred Eberstat loved to take pics of men for his private collection/consumption I assume. He was not unlike Bruce Weber only very nice, funny and most of all, honest.

^ Thanks for the dish!

They are making a movie/documentary about the effect on the gay community that the International Male catalog had. I think there is a FB page dedicated to it.

R129, Ted Dawson and Joe Macdonald were hot

[quote]Bob Menna

It was obviously all smoke and mirrors.

Joe Macdonald was a beautiful man with a fine athletic build, which made him very popular within the modeling industry in the 1970s and early '80s. It also made him popular within the NYC gay social scene, and it was said that he contracted every sexual disease out there. He couldn't, however, conquer the gay cancer, which was what AIDS was called back then. It ruined his looks and ended his career, and he became one of the early casualties of AIDS, dying in the spring of 1983.

Charlie R129 were you also friendly with Peter Keating by any chance?

His long, lanky image was one of the first that made me feel better about my own looks as a 6’3” skinny kid spending my adolescence in the South where the most popular male ideal was a big hunky football player type.

That's sad about Joe Macdonald

“I earn my living...modeling clothes like this!”

R137, back in the day male model was a nice way of saying male prostitute. I wonder if any of these guys hooked

Seriously r138?

In the late '70s - early '80, GQ Asst Art Director Donald Sterzin and photographer Bruce Weber wisely moved away from hiring models directly from the NY agencies and began recruiting jocks from the college campuses. The NY models were all starting to have that coked out, scraggly quality, so they went looking for clean-cut, All-American types. They discovered rower Michael Ives at Yale, water polo team captain Jeff Aquilon at Pepperdine, and this beauty, Michael Schoeffling, a wrestler at Temple University, who would make several appearances in GQ before landing a pivotal role in John Hughes' "Sixteen Candles."

Another Michael Schoeffling GQ cover. He was one of Bruce Weber's favorites, even paying for Michael's acting classes at the Strasberg Institute in Manhattan.

It is said that Donald Sterzin fell madly, head-over-heels in love with Jeff Aquilon and kept getting him to take off his clothes for fashion spreads that really had nothing to do with fashion. Like doing a back flip while wearing speedos, or doing a handstand while wearing speedos.

R142, don’t see anything wrong with that.

Donald Sterzin, 42

Bruce Hulse and Jeff Aquilon

Bruce Weber discovery, Bruce Hulse, a former lifeguard

Rick Edwards, Bill Curry, Michael Ives, Jeff Aquilon

thanks for the trip down memory lane. OP’s pic is the first copy of GQ I ever purchase, and with all the hot men pictured inside, it quickly turned into porn for this teenager!

Bill Curry seems a bit gay to me, always did.

Those men are all so hot.

Jack Scalia

^^^^mmmmmm Jack Scalia.

That color pattern combo he's wearing would be an eyesore in the light of day, but looks great in that picture.

Or he's just hot and the basic premise of using hot models to sell ugly clothes is affirmed.

Thom Fleming

Bob Menna. Despite the unibrow, he was hot.

r140, you have to wonder about those guys Bruce Weber "discovered"

R155 I don’t think there’s much to wonder about with that first generation of models that Bruce worked with.

Sure he probably got off on shooting pictures of them, but I seriously doubt he harassed them or tried anything inappropriate. He was well known by then but not yet a superstar photographer and these guys weren’t desperate to be models. They were most likely simply enticed by an offer to be in a legitimate magazine, earn very easy money, and how the attention fed the varying degrees of narcissism that most athletes have about their bodies.

By the time the 90s rolled around and Bruce was in a very powerful position in the industry and casting the A&F catalogs then all bets are off. Those guys were actively seeking to be models and knew Bruce could make their dreams come true. That’s when his pervy behavior with models started because he knew by then he could get away with it and the very different circumstances of how new models were approaching him.

[quote]Sure he probably got off on shooting pictures of them, but I seriously doubt he harassed them or tried anything inappropriate.

It wasn't just about photographers, it was the designers too. Believe me, if you were doing the latest campaign for Armani, Versace, Valentino or Enrico Coveri or any of the Euro menswear houses popular at the time, you were propositioned and you put out if you wanted the job.

And it wasn't considered "inapropriate". It was just part of the biz.

r155 was the first copy of GQ I ever bought, when I was in my early teens, and I hid it from my parents like it was Playgirl. They would have thought it was a gay rag, which it pretty much was

Are any of these guys still modeling since older guys are getting more attention now?

I would have pulled off Bob Menna's swimsuit in R154. Sex in a hammock? Anyone tried it?

No R157- didn’t happen to my friends ever on a job- might happen when private pics being taken or an aspiring model putting together a book before landing an agency, which were very powerful and protected their models. Designers etc might make there “moves” in other settings- with promises etc, but I never knew anyone (guys) feel pressured- and I was around that scene a lot in the 79s- in fact I was approached all the time by designers and fashion execs- at clubs, parties etc. wasn’t hard to handle. Jeff A and the Ives brothers were Weber “discoveries”, and straight- the male model scene tacked straight in the 80s.

their, not there , and 70s not 79s

R161 I lived in Italy all through the 1980s when designer menswear took off. I knew THAT scene from Milan to Pantelleria.

Charlie - were you friends with Peter Keating?

Kinda surprised that anyone with Peter Keating's hairline got to be a model.

Rob Yoh (1952-1991)

Kalani Durdan (1947-1987)

Kalani Durdan and Joe Macdonald. Both taken too soon.

And in complete contrast the new editor is turning GQ into a music magazine. Tragic.

Didn’t know Peter Keating at all. Joe was a friend- he was smart, collected art with his $. He was very funny. He had a veneer of “is that all there is”, but he really was a nice guy. He would do very kind little things out of nowhere- kind of protective.

It was horrible watching Joe go down early in the epidemic because we didn’t know what it was and could not believe - that something do awful could be happening.

I still remember reading the New York magazine article about Joe McDonald's sad decline and death in 1983. I was a young'un in Kansas City and for about the hundredth time swore I'd go straight.

Ted Stephenson, the Calvin Klein cologne model. This ad was in magazines for years. I had a friend who worked on processing Bruce Weber's film for this shoot - he said that the film rolls were delivered in a plastic trash bag, hundreds and hundreds of rolls of film, from one day, just for this one photograph. Ted's modeling career does not seem to have lasted all that long.

Kalani Durdan was gorgeous

I wish we could see a photo of what Rick Edwards looks like now. I have Googled several times but can’t find one.

Bruce Hulse, Levi's "Mannish Boy" ad. God, this got my attention when I was a kid.

(don't know if it was screened in the U.S)

R160 Bob Menna 2019

He looks like Marty Scorsese

Oh please Rick Edwards couldn't possibly look like Martin Scorsese. Though Martin was good looking when he was young.

R174. I can’t link from Instagram. But look up Rickedwards333. It is him.

R178 I was referring to Bob Menna as pictured in R176... not Rick Edwards.

How did Joe Macdonald become a model with a horrific nose job like this?

Rick Edwards from a few days ago. Still hot.

He's a hot daddy

Joe McDonald Supermodel is his Insta name...as if.

I mean really...

r144 He died on my birthday....