Home of the show Sex and the City. Basically, that says it all. Museums, restaurants, nightclubs, and unparalleled shopping make this city the Mecca for all metrosexuals. Quite simply put, if you don’t have this place on your places to see before you die, chances are you aren’t a metrosexual.

London

It’s the New York City of England. High society collides with high style in the sprawling metropolis known for its gossip, music, and sense of charm.

Paris

It’s the home of fashion. Anyone metrosexual who doesn’t know where the inspiration for his Hugo Boss suit came from probably is having an identity crisis.. Filled with beautiful people, high fashion, amazing museums and some of the most beautiful architecture in the world, this city will always be near the top of any list for not just metrosexuals, but all people.

Barcelona

It has emerged as the party town of Spain. Any who’s who has been there. Its only an hour flight from London. Take a quick morning flight and be back by the evening. But not before experiencing some of the wine and beautiful women. Its got a laid back pace, but the party here is rockin’.

Los Angeles

Because it’s show biz, babe. Beautiful people, big money, power lunches, swimming pools and movie stars keep the dream alive in movie town where you never know who you might bump into. Did someone say George Clooney? Anyone looking to climb there way up the ladder in the party scene must check this town out. Find out why all the stars do it bigger and better.

Miami

Miami is the people’s party town. Take out all the glitz of Los Angeles and New York city, and add in some Hispanic pastel colors, Deco-decadence, and some ’50s chic. Mix that with world-class hotels and an international social scene and you have one hell of a formula for a great Friday night in South Beach. Miami is the place for a truly multi-cultural metrosexual scene.

Milan

Because chances are your Italian blazer wouldn’t have ever been sitting in the store had it not been for this town. Some of the most beautiful women, and most high end shops line this town from North to South. Get some of the culture at the Duomo and then head on over to a little café. Then, onto the party scene. Oh, and if you don’t come back with some new leather shoes, you might not even bother going there.

San Francisco

This town is made for all “sexuals,” whether its metro, hetero, bi, or homo. It has something for everyone. This is a rich cultural town allowing one to experience how metrosexuals from all over the world party, and live life. Its bohemian past truly does make one feel that they can just be themselves. And, isn’t that what we metrosexuals do best???

Amsterdam

This is the Venice of Northern Europe. It’s a place you’ll see even grandpa wearing nice leather shoes and talking to beautiful blonde bombshells. With its red light district and canals running throughout the city, it truly is a unique experience for anyone just willing to let themselves go.

Montréal

Montréal has transformed itself into a marvelous city in the same class as Paris, Rome, San Francisco, New York, and London.  Being at the confluence of the French and the English traditions,  Montréal has developed a unique and distinguished cultural face.  It has a huge cosmopolitan fashion/arts/cafe scene… a seemingly eccentric population.  That is why the city is highly attractive to metrosexuals all over the world. 

It’s no wonder that James Dean and Sean Connery were revered as gods by an entire race of crazy macho-fanatic female fans around the world. But, that was then and things have changed. The macho man has apparently taken a back seat to a new breed of charmers walking into the center-stage – charmers now known as metrosexuals. Apparently, this new breed knows what impresses girls and is all packed with the right tools to get the job done. They know it is a mix between showing a strong confident image, all masked behind a face that has had a few trips to the day spa that month. They know it is a combination of pure brut toned down by the plucking of the eyebrows and the waxing of their chest that truly makes the difference.

Metrosexual men are no different from their macho counterparts. In fact, in many ways they are like a super version of the macho man. They are, for all intensive purposes, The Hulk on steroids. They’ve got the muscle, they’ve got the tough guy attitude, and on top of that they got it all while being “decked to the 9’s” and a heart to boot. The metrosexual is the macho man of the future, and lets his persona do the fighting as well as his charm, so as to not get the suit ruffled in any sort of physical altercation.

He is the same old hunk who just happens to split his time evenly between the fitness centre and the day spas. He sports designer robes, splashes exotic fragrances on his body, and prefers smart talk shows over football reruns. In fact, metrosexuals are known to spend more and more time behind the hallowed walls of salons and spas than the average woman today.
A good look at the immense popularity of stars like David Beckham, Hugh Jackman, and Ian Thorpe, who embody metrosexuality and all your questions are answered. Interestingly, a metrosexual’s definition in the eyes of girls is that of an elegant specimen who juggles beauty, brains, and brawns with grace, much in the way Grace Kelly did.

Needless to say, metrosexuals are all the rage in the new age, taking over from the macho breed, as today’s girls like boys who are well groomed, smell good, and have a mind as well. Today, you’ll come across more and more girls attracted to guys who are conscious of their appearance and how they influence the masses rather than trying to present a persona of someone with “roid rage.”

The next time you notice a girl taking interest in you. Step back and think about the situation. Is it because of your new Calvin Klein blazer? Or is it the new Ecco loafers? Perhaps the Hugo boss shirt? Or maybe, it’s the whole package. Because, chances are if it’s even one of those, you are a metrosexual. So just sit back and get ready for a great time. Girls, parties, and beauty spas. What could be better?

“A man’s duty is to uphold the banner of beauty. And you, as prince of our fair land must lead the way!”

THE CONFIDENT METROSEXUAL ALWAYS . . .

• Puts others at ease
• Takes responsibility for his actions
• Is aware of his sexuality
• Enjoys looking his best
• Flirts subtly
• Accepts flattery
• Never loses control
• Tells the truth
• Is able to laugh at himself

15 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ

The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway
Myra Breckenridge — Gore Vidal
The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
Underworld — Don DeLillo
Maus and Maus II — Art Spiegelman
Perfume — Susskind
On The Road — Jack Kerouac
The Outsider — Albert Camus
Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Berlin Stories — Christopher Isherwood
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
Barrel Fever — David Sedaris
Fight Club — Chuck Palahniuk

15 ALBUMS YOU SHOULD OWN

Buena Vista Social Club — Various
Chet Baker in Paris — Chet Baker
What’s Goin’ On — Marvin Gaye
Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin — Serge Gainsbourg
Best of Sade (Remastered) — Sade
The Mission: Soundtrack — Ennio Morricone
Painted from Memory — Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
Blue Lines — Massive Attack
Four Sider — Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66
The Moderns: Soundtrack — Mark Isham
Speaking in Tongues — Talking Heads
Best of Bowie — David Bowie
Vertigo — Groove Armada
Parachutes — Coldplay
Berlin — Lou Reed

15 FILMS YOU SHOULD SEE

La Dolce Vita — Federico Fellini
Fargo — The Coen brothers
The Elephant Man — David Lynch
Cinema Paradiso — Giuseppe Tornatore
The Last Emperor — Bernardo Bertolucci
A Clockwork Orange — Stanley Kubrick
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down — Pedro Almodovar
Wings of Desire — Wim Wenders
Amelie — Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Brazil — Terry Gilliam
The Remains of the Day — James Ivory
American Beauty — Sam Mendes
Cabaret — Bob Fosse
Koyaanisqatsi — Godfrey Reggio
Sunset Boulevard — Billy Wilder 

Screwdriver
Vodka and orange juice. The uninspiring drink for the uninspired man.

Margarita
Tequila, sour mix and/or fresh lime (frozen or on the rocks, with or without salt on the rim). A good-time cocktail for a good-time guy.

Rum and Coke
Rum and cola. A dull choice for Dad.

Greyhound
Vodka and grapefruit juice. Good choice for the finicky, body-conscious gym rat.

Daiquiri
Rum, lime juice and fruit mixer (served frozen). Enjoyed by decorators and figure skaters alike.

Gin and Tonic
On the rocks with a lime. The sensible choice for an educated man.

Harvey Wallbanger
Vodka, orange juice and Galliano. For goofy guys who are amused by goofy names.

Tequila Sunrise
Tequila, orange juice and grenadine. A sweet choice for a “man-child”.

Mai Tai
Dark rum and pineapple juice. For the metro-man who wants to be on a tropical holiday.

In a recent interview, Simpson goes on: “Commercially… it makes perfect sense to maintain that metrosexuals are all straight — after all, advertising is trying to persuade as many men as possible to relax their sphincter muscles, cooing in their ear that there’s nothing gay about being f***ed by Corporate consumerism. Which, ironically, is true.” If Mark Simpson is gay, does that mean metrosexuals are too? Most current references point to no. However, according to Simpson’s original definition, orientation is unimportant. Simpson clarified this point in an interview with Russia’s OM Magazine, explaining, “Metrosexuality is in fact the end of ’sexuality’.” He envisions a world that doesn’t care about sexuality. To him, sexuality “is utterly immaterial because the metrosexual has taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual aim. Desire in the metrosexual has been uncoupled, or at least irretrievably loosened, from reproduction and gender — and reattached to commercial signs. Adverts. Images. Icons. Brands.” In esseence, he means that these roles which our societies have for so long been embedded into our minds are changing. Those roles we previously thought only were for men, can now be for women, and vice versa. Basically, it is ok to be whoever you like.

In general everyday use, to be called metrosexual is not to be called gay, but rather sensitive, chic and cultured. In many ways it is more of a compliment than it is a put down. Though some more conservative men would see it other wise, to be called metrosexual is a way of saying that you have evolved with the changing times and you are ready to take on whatever is next.

David Beckham is the biggest metrosexual in the world simply for the fact that he loves himself. He loves being looked at and because so many men and women love to look at him too, it makes him the ultimate meterosexual. Some might even say the Godfather of Metrosexuality. He’s the future, but also a means of adapting other, less advanced men to that future. More to the point, he sucks Corporate cock with no gag reflex and that ain’t gay my friends. A staple of newspapers, men’s magazines, TV advertising and billboards, last year he earned around $8 million for sponsoring various male fashion accessories, such as Police sunglasses.

The Beckham advertising phenomenon, however, goes far beyond the usual cash-ins that are seen among most sporting stars. “Becks” gives the impression that he’d do it for nothing (except the attention); he’s a sporting star who wants to be a model and a model who just wants to be loved by all.

In “Fight Club”, a film that looks like a feature-length glossy men’s magazine fashion shoot, Brad “six-pack” Pitt, smooth Calvin Klein model turned Hollywood pretty boy, and one of America’s most famous metrosexual males, leads an all-boys-together rebellion against …Surprise!Surprise!!…American Consumerism. His long winded monologues tear down all that which has been built up to make this metrosexual world. He tears into the marketing, distribution, and overall system of convincing customers to buy things they never needed or do things they never deemed necessary.

In “American Psycho,” the anti-hero serial killer’s problem is shown by his failure to recognize the woman that could civilize him: “Have you ever wanted to make someone happy?” she asks innocently. He doesn’t hear her: He’s too busy taking out his giant nail gun. Making someone else happy is of course an even more impossible quest than making yourself happy — our parents taught us that. But in this case, it is rather less likely to stain your white silk sofa. Only in Hollywood can they have a man such as Christian Bale playing such an evil person. If he had taken the same care with his victims as he did with his eyebrows then maybe he would never have had the problems he did.

The “Spider-Man” movie offers us the transformation of a nerd into a metrosexual before our very eyes. Apparently, that spider injected him with more than just super-human powers. While gazing into the mirror admiring his new muscular body, next to him is laying a lycra jumpsuit. Once fully clothed he spends his time running around on all fours and pumping his ass in the air while setting up “web” cameras to track his every move. Peter Parker/Tobey Maguire employs designer drugs, clothes, perverse sexuality and multimedia technology to get people to look at him as he swings between the billboards and skyscrapers after other villains in the same flamboyant costumes with perfect bone structure.
In one memorable scene he hangs upside down in his gimp suit while Kirsten Dunst peels off the lower part of his mask to kiss him, before replacing it: a perfect example of the new power dynamic between metrosexual men and women and how metrosexual men have to be the center of attention in this metrosexual universe.
There no longer is the thought of just a leading lady anymore. Now its all about the man. We’re lead to believe that Tobey is motivated by old-fashioned virtues of social concern and love for Kirsten, but we don’t believe it for a moment. We can’t believe it. Nor does she. Kirsten finally offers herself but Tobey declines, realizing that she would come between him and his real love: his metrosexual alter ego. And that is just simply too much to give up.
In today’s modern world, straight men are emasculated on a daily basis. “Sex and the City” has seen to that. Female metrosexuality is the complement of male metrosexuality, except that it’s active where male metrosexuality is passive. Gone are the days that a straight man’s sense of self and manhood delivered by his relationship to women; instead it’s challenged by it. Women are still monarchs of the private world, but increasingly assertive in the public world too. Series like “Oz,” set in a male prison and featuring story lines that revolve around violent buggery, and are the only sanctuary that many men have from the constant male-bashing programs such as “Sex and the City.” It truly is a metrosexual world. And, all the wars of the present aren’t going to change that a bit. Watching war films aren’t even macho anymore. It’s amazing how good Tom Cruise can look in a military uniform. And, the touch of the classic ray bans… Top Gun truly helped save that company.

NO
Gordon Brown
Iain Duncan Smith
Russell Crowe
Jonny Wilkinson
Sean Connery
Keith Richards
David Davis
Tom Cruise
Damien Hirst
Eminem
Jonathan Ross
Philip Green
Alastair Campbell
Paul Gascoigne
Microwave Man

MAYBE
Michael Howard
Robin Cook
Colin Farrell
Michael Owen
Roger Moore
Mick Jagger
Tim Yeo
Ben Affleck
Martin Creed
Damon Albarn
Michael Parkinson
Richard Branson
Godric Smith
Ryan Giggs
Richard Morrison

1. Been hit on by a gay man? If you’re a metrosexual, it’s already happened. (Who can blame them for trying?) And while you were flattered, you’re really straight. The term, “metrosexual,” as originally coined, describes a normal heterosexual male who in many ways dresses and styles himself as a gay man would.
2. Do you carry a purse? Ever seen the episode of “Friends” with Joey and the man bag? Ever been in the same situation. If you’ve got a bag big enough to hold more than credit cards and some cash and you aren’t headed to the gym, there’s a good chance your already a metrosexual..
3. How do you feel about your socks? Do you know what color socks you have on right now? Are they the same color as your shoes? Have you ever jumped out to pick up just a pair of socks? If you answered yes then you already know what you are. Consideration into the details of socks alone makes you a met. Its this detail that serves you well with your other threads too.
4. Do you wear “tighty whities”? Tom Cruise in “Risky Business” is probably the only metrosexual who could ever pull this off. If it ever comes between a pair of these tighty whities and going commando, commando is the way for you. If this sounds familiar, then you know what you are.
5. Do you use more than one product in your hair? Do you have more than one type of gel? Do you have gel for any occasion? Do you use something to keep the highlights from fading. It’s really ok, you’ll do just fine as a met..
6. Have you ever used hair removal services other than shaving? You know — waxing, tweezing, laser, electrolysis? If so, you’ve entered metro country and chances are you’re here to stay.
7. Do you receive spa services? Ever been to a spa? Did you like it? Chances are if you can stand more than 20 minutes in this place without heading for the doors, then you’re a metrosexual. And, if you have any spa treatments, manicures, or facials written on your calendar, chances are you are “uber-metrosexual.”
8. Do you borrow products from the women in your life? Ever snuck something out of a girls purse before other than money? Ever had to hide the fact that your girlfriends tweezers are missing because you decided to do your eyebrows yourself? If you have more than nail clippers and a nose hair trimmer then chances are you are more into yourself than you thought. You’re here, you’re metro, get used to it!!!

Three black T-shirts, three new white T-shirts





Two pairs of flattering jeans (not the same style or color)



One leather or suede short coat (not a bomber jacket!!!… think blazer)





Two turtle-necks or crewneck cable-knit sweaters



Dark suit and two pairs of dark, straight-leg, non-pleated pants



Three well-cut, solid-color, button-down shirts (one white)



Quality sunglasses



One expensive watch, one sports watch





Flattering underwear