fashion

After buying some RIPS underwear, I noticed this book, and thought, hey, let's see what this is all about. This books shows a very artistic method of selling their products. You get to see some very abercrombie-esque boys in various settings wearing RIPS...... Some of the pics are done in a very erotic setting (male standing ..... behind a fountain, and such). Some of the images are rather homoerotic with two of the male models holding each other or laying near each other. For a coffee table book, I think it works great. I put it along side such books as Erotic Art, and my Abercrombie catalogs. It is tasteful, no explicit...... images, just very attractive men in interesting scenes with RIPS underwear, and it some cases, no .......

I read the reviews, but bought the book anyway, because the cover was so hot! Only buy the book if you love the cover. The blonde cover model is not even hot when you see the rest of the pics. And don't expect more hot models inside, except in their underwear.

The photographer should be praised for trying, but this effort falls short. The models are pretty great, but there should be more variety. The photography is uneven, with some good shots along with many that should have been edited out. The reproduction is AWFUL, with many pages being the quality of a Xerox. These guys dedicate the book to Bruce Weber, and they should take a page from how Bruce pays meticulous attention to the edit, design, and reproduction of his books.