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TOP MODEL SWEDEN SEASON PREMIERE

Top Model Sweden is finally back on TV with its fifth season of fierce wannabe models competing for the prize of becoming Sweden’s next Top Model, some of the most luxurious prizes ever given in the show, and of course a contract with one of the worlds’s biggest model agencies.

24 lucky girls has been selected in the first episode and will compete for being one of the final ten who will move to the city where fashion meets luxury; Los Angeles. Model and actress Izabella Scorupco and celebrity stylist Jonas Hallberg will teach these girls everything the model industry requires of them throughout the show until it’s only one left claiming the title.

Prepare for fierce competing of who will be the final one who can walk the talk in The City of Angels this spring.

Season premiere on TV3 20:00 tonight.

31 Jan 12

NEWS ORGY

The Dorian team is back in business delivering style and substance, after decadent New Year celebrations in Europe’s Brazil, Portugal. Details to follow in the upcoming issue of Dorian.

Mathias Bergh (large image) is looking utterly delicious in the retrotastic Tom Ford SS12 look book and ads, shot by Tom himself.

Conniving bitch, saintlike bore or pretentious snob? Fans of Downton Abbey should take the DA Quiz to see which character they mostly resemble.

A UK study shows that half of gay men would give up a year from their lifes to have a body like Adonis. Would you?

Keep the holiday spirit going with ferosh mixes from young Brazilian DJ Arthur Valleti and Spanish DJ Ivan Gomez (Downloadable!)

David Beckham launches affordable ‘bodywear’ together with H&M February 2nd. Is it just us but isn’t babydaddy looking a bit…bloated or did he just forget to flex? Also, before the Marni collection arrives in H&M stores in March, the Versace Cruise collection is made available online January 19.

New year. New male calendars. Here’s a round-up of the weirdest ones.

Designer names can be tricky to pronounce, especially if you’re ‘Brüno’ or American. Perhaps watching this instruction video might help.

Shit People Say is a popular video series poking fun at the stereotypical lingo used by certain demographics. Spin-off versions include Shit Gay Guys Say or Shit Straight Guys say to Gay Guys. Funny ’cause it’s true.

Madonna is getting on the PR train for her directorial debut W.E. with candid (i.e. bitchy) appearances on the Graham Norton talk show and ABC News this week.

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley talk about Ab Fab’s history in a new documentary series. Years ago the dynamic duo French & Saunders made this EPIC reading of a badly translated Madonna interview which now conveniantly has resurfaced.

10 Jan 12

Baptiste Giabiconi

FLASHBACK: BAPTISTE GIABICONI FOR DORIAN

We celebrate supermodel and pop star Baptiste Giabiconi’s first ‘serious’ single One Night In Paradise and upcoming debut album by taking a look at the summer issue, as we had the pleasure of working with him in Paris, where Baptiste showed off his physique and supermodel talents in pop star fashion. If copying is a compliment we should be very proud, as another magazine almost plagiarised(!) the entire job.

Click image for gallery or Buy the issue in the shop.

10 Jan 12

Red Model Management

RED MODEL MANAGEMENT COCKTAIL

Red Model Management invited us over for a cocktailparty at their office with a view over Chelsea in New York where some of their hottest and most booked models attended. Christophe Sanchez-Vale, agent for the men’s division, took us around their office to introduce us to their newest male model Kim Kraglund from Denmark, and the sweet model Nykhor Paul. Some photographers behind these model shoots as Joseph Bleu, who said he’s a big fan of Dorian, enjoyed champagne among peers such as Renie Saliba, Gary Lupton and the team behind models.com.

It was a beautiful view to enjoy among the people from the fashion industry and we don’t just talk about the view.

Danish supermodel Kim Kraglund with agent Christophe Sanchez-Vale. Klick image for gallery.

3 Dec 11

FASHION EVENT SEASON

It truly is the festive season with a virtual explosion of lovely fashion events. A few favourites has been the intimate dinner with Spalt PR and german, urban fashion brand New Yorker at F12 and Thomas Hägg’s Dockers flagship store opening at PK-Huset – making a wonderful addition to the department store’s offer.

RMPR hosted J Lindeberg‘s new coffee table photo book launch aswell as a lavish evening for Swedish suit masters Cavaliere with master chef Gert Klötzke, at Stockholm’s historical Skansen, where we learned about the brand’s advanced skills and the spring collection; slim silouettes in a sea of blue hues, contrasted by crisp white, coloured pinstripes or a lot of checkered fabrics – silk, wool or jersey – all from iconic fabric makers Loro Piana and Cerruti – and always with a coloured pocket square! We were also fortunate enough to create our own suit jacket, before we all helped make dinner. It was hilarous to see ten top fashion individuals trying to execute Gert Klötzke’s instructions. The outcome was a delicious three course triumph with hand made sausage, perfectly cooked duck breast and panna cotta. Klick image for gallery.

Cavaliere jacket, New Yorker shirt & Dockers Alpha Khaki.

2 Dec 11

NEWS ORGY

A beautiful activism video promotes Australian marriage equality.

Seems the world has caught up with us loving young DJ Avicii. His banger Levels gets a video.

Iconic 70-s, disco diva (and alleged transexual) Amanda Lear is making a comeback album, to be released in January. She recently performed on french television.

Adele releases Live At The Royal Albert Hall DVD/CD in time for the holidays. Gaga also drops a surprise christmas album – and poses in her birthday suit for Annie Liebowitz in Vanity Fair.

Italian print masters Marni will be the next H&M collaborator with a collection in stores March, but Versace’s in-your-face style will also return this spring(!) and according to rumours we may soon be sexing it up in H&M by Tom Ford.

Were looking forward to the sexually provocative Steve Mc Queen directed movie Shame, featuring the gorgeous Michael Fassbender. Also, watch him play ‘guess the celeb penis’.

The fashion- and artcollective SHOWstudio feature long interviews with movers and shakers in a series called The Café. In the latest installment, the intriguing, transexual Dear Or Alive-singer Peter Burns is extremely candid.

Tommy Hilfiger shows the latest styles in a camp and sexy holiday commercial.

J-Lo deserves killing her career at the American Music Awards with the most embarrassing, cynical product placement in history. (1.15 into the clip)

Ab Fab-creator Jennifer Saunders showed a sneak preview of the upcoming special on Graham Nortons talk show.

Watch out lovers of huge Ed Hardy-like logo prints. Mega-DJ Tiesto launches clothing.

1 Dec 11

PK Magazine

PK MAGAZINE IS HERE!

Congratulations Stockholm! PK Magazine, our new, mixed fashion and lifestyle magazine for upscale department store PK-Huset has arrived. Jampacked with winter style guides, spring fashion galore, travels and Swedish pop sensation Danny Saucedo. Visit PK-Huset to grab your own copy or visit the homepage or download a digital version here now. (The magazine is in Swedish but with international appeal!).

1 Dec 11

NEWS ORGY

Do you feel like Dorian hasn’t given you enough love lately? No worries. We’re working hard putting finishing touches on TWO magazines, to be released soon (and visiting a bunch of fab events of course). Meanwhile:

Ab Fab: The Movie? Yes, it’s happening. “We thought it would be hilarious if they went to a party on an oligarch’s yacht, got drunk, fell asleep and woke up in the middle of the ocean” says Jennifer Saunders about the movie, that will take place on the Riviera. Jennifer will finish the script next year.

Duran Durans new video Girl Panic shot by Jonas Åkerlund features ALL the original supermodels.

Madonna’s future single appears online. What on paper sounded faboulous proves to be a quite underwhelming 80s pastiche. She does, however, look good in the new Harper’s Bazaar.

Two male penguins in the Toronto Zoo fell in love, but will be separated as they need to perform their ‘procreational duties’ to keep the species alive.

Super premium watch retailer Nymans Ur held Watchout Evening, a glamorous gala event, the other night and last week we attended the Swedish Symphonics 75th anniversary gala.

A straight, british rygby player had a stroke during training and woke up…gay.

The video for Big Bad Wolf, the new song from Duck Sauce (Armand Van Helden) features a lot of humorous phallic fantasies/nightmares.

The cultural abomination, aka Eurovision, released all upcoming competitors. We’re (always) rooting for Danny Saucedo.

H&M held a catwalk launch in New York last night to celebrate the extremely anticipated (and overexposed) Versace collaboration.

Homoerotic, swedish synth pop galore: Sound Of Arrows releases the new single Wonders.

Paco Rabanne’s new face is…Iggy Pop?! Yes, the new fragrance Black XS will feature the 64-year-old rocker in it’s advertising.

9 Nov 11

STOCKHOLM SS/12 PRESS DAYS ROUNDUP

So ended another rain- and champagne-filled press week where a multitude of agencys showed off the upcoming SS12 collections. And what collections – prepare for an abundance of inspired color- and texture clashes in the menswear that – magnificently styled and beautifully shot – will end up in the pages of DORIAN Magazine – aswell as womenswear(!) in our new, mixed fashion magazine: PK Magazine (launching 24 november).

Congratulations to JUNG, G-STAR and MODIN/ÅKERLIND for their new stylish offices, to SPALT for 15 successful years, and huge thanks to RMPR, SCANDINAVIAN PRESSROOM, RED & SQUARE, POLHEM and THOMAS HÄGG for inspiration.

Klick image for a small preview.

13 Oct 11

NEWSORGY

Watch out ‘Twilighters‘, we’re meeting Robert Pattinson later this month. Oh, and by the way, DORIAN winter edition also features Taylor Lautner!

Enrique Badulescu directed Cory Bond in the steamy commercial for Michael Kors’ new underwear line. Now all we have to do is mentally retouch the girl, Kors- and the branding out.

Dorian is launching a new, glossy, mixed fashion magazine. PK Magazine, made for a luxe Stockholm department store, and will create a stir when launching end of november.

Balmain, now for everyone! The (cheaper) Pierre Balmain SS12 lookbook is released.

Aaw, cuteness alert: watch Ford Model Francisco Lachowski in action.

The long-anticipated Versace for H&M collection drops mid-November. Riper Viiperi rocks the colorful pieces in ads with more image leaks online. Baroque print trucker hat anyone?

Imagine a world without your ‘gay PC’, (MAC), or a Grindr-infused iPhone? Apples visionary Steve Jobs just passed away. iPhone 4S (For Steve) is Apples salute.

Does your kid really need a college degree? The freaky Olsen Twins‘ fashion line The Row features a $39,000 alligator backpack – which has sold out! And, yes, we crave one aswell.

Congratulations to the the ‘world’s most noble person’ (according to Guinnes), the 85 years-young Duchess of Alba, for just getting married!

Crossdressing? Check. Vacuuming? Check. Those Marc Jacobs‘ commercials just keep getting weirder!

There was fashion drama during the Paris shows when the benches broke at Balenciaga, leaving Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld standing (gasp!).

6 Oct 11