Baptiste Giabiconi | Bojana Tatarska | DANSK Magazine S/S 2011

Baptiste Giabiconi projects a steaming sensuality, photographed by Bojana Tatarska as the “choice of a new generation” in Dansk magazine’s Spring/Summer 2011 issue.

Giabiconi speaks of his relationship with Karl Lagerfeld:

“I honestly consider Karl family. I cherish him and I love him very much. He’s family. He is Le Grand Monsieur. He’s my fashion hero. He has such a big heart, he’s such a generous person, he has so much to give to people. And he’s so talented. Karl may not look very approachable but that’s just the way he presents himself. It’s not what he’s like as a person.”

The exclamation point takeaway from the Dansk interview is Baptiste Giabiconi’s statements about being Karl’s muse:

“One day I went up to Karl and said: ‘Why me? What is it you see in me? Why do you only work with me?’ And he told me it’s because he sees something in me that he doesn’t see in other people, something in the way I carry myself. Karl said: ‘I see both a man and a woman in you at the same time.’”

That’s how I see Baptiste as well. As he moves to carve out his own identity in his music and being lensed by other photographers, the 21-year-old is voluptuously sexual — being masculine and feminine at the same time.

There are multiple trends expressing themselves in sexuality.

Many in the new generation reject the hypersexuality of contemporary Western culture. In Japan the herbivore men express little interest in sex and many loathe it.

This view of sexuality — a sensual monasticism — is deeply grounded in monotheism, which challenges humans that we can’t be sensual and spiritual creatures. I find Karl Lagerfeld to be very much in alignment with the Vatican in his views of sexuality and human nature.

Lagerfeld is against gay marriage, saying that gays shouldn’t desire a bourgeoise life.

“For me it’s difficult to imagine—one of the papas at work and the other at home with the baby. How would that be for the baby? I don’t know. I see more lesbians married with babies than I see boys married with babies. And I also believe more in the relationship between mother and child than in that between father and child.”  via Karl’s Vice Magazine interview

Lagerfeld admits that he doesn’t like getting sexually intimate with people he loves, preferring high-class escorts.  Sexual desire is fleeting, which is a true statement without creative intervention.

Baptiste erupts with sexuality in these Bojana Tatarska images, and Lagerfeld has lensed Giabiconi’s sexual nature as well. The opposite of a herbivore, Baptiste appears to embrace his sexuality and to cultivate it as a core part of his identity. Anne

via Dansk