Flipping through my roommate’s subscription to GQ, and what do I notice? This little dreamboat of a picture:
Not sure how I feel. His facial hair, outside of a Hollywood timepiece, looks really douchey. And not in a Hipster way, either. In a “I’m trying way too hard to recreate a trend that was never really a trend and will never really be a trend” type way.
But I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt, because once some cute chick said I looked a little bit like him. It was probably a backhanded anti-Semitic comment saying that all Jews look the same. But I’ll take it either way.
The takeaway?
Adrien Brody, when asked if his facial hair is sometimes influenced by woman, he answered a resounding ‘yes’. It’s why you should date a Hipster girl. She’ll love ALL types of whiskers.
Mr Handsome's Wife
02/02/2012
I don’t know him at all, this pic was pointed out to me by a friend because it makes him look a little like my husband. The facial hair is similar to 17th century styles – it was a trend that lasted decades, so one just needs to extend one’s definition of fashion and not see it as a ‘Hollywood timepiece’. I think he looks fine. Nothing douchey about neat facial hair. He’d look better if he grew his hair into long curls (no not Hasidic ones, the sort fashionable men wore in the 1630s) and sharpened the moustache a bit. He’s a good-looking man. :)
Chicky
02/03/2012
Fair enough. Hollywood has ruined me however and all I can think of is the three musketeers’ facial hair. I only understand history through the lens of Hollywood costume and makeup artists.