March 21, 2007

Falcon's Erik Rhodes Models for Loehmann's

Is it possible that gays might be working in design or display at a big department store chain? Apparently so, and not only that, they're fans of gay porn stars! We've come a long way, baby!

If you happen to be walking by one of Loehmann’s flagship department stores in NYC’s Chelsea district or LA’s West Hollywood district and notice a familiar face in the window display take a closer look, yep, that’s right, it’s none other than Falcon Exclusive Erik Rhodes!

Falcon's press release reads, "Rhodes was tapped to do their spring campaign because of his high profile in the adult industry and his wholesome good looks." Oh please, a couple tres-gay window dressers got a budget to hire models, so they figured, "Why not spend it on a slab of meat we've been jerking-off to at home?" Enter the hulking slab 'o meat known as Erik Rhodes. I'm sure the gay window dressers (are there any other kind?) were sick of those stuck-up manorexic runway mode-el types, and Erik's really fun and flirty, so I'm sure the queens from Loehmann's got their money's worth.

"The creative team at Loehmann’s wanted to feature an adult star that could turn the heads of their high gay clientele in key markets but yet do it in a way where it wasn’t overtly obvious." Hmm, I never knew Loehmann's even carried men's clothes. Their supposed gay clientele must only be buying women's clothes...

Rhodes can also be seen the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month at www.ErikRhodes.com where he performs his LIVE shows for members of the Falcon Studios website. His latest film, in which Rhodes gives it to Jason Adonis for the first time, is “The Farmers Son” FVP172.

UPDATE: Just got a call from Michael Lucas who informed me that the other guy in the photos is Ben Andrews, a Lucas Entertainment exclusive! The photographer was Joe Oppedisano, who also shot for "La Dolce Vita", and they needed two models about the same height, so they put 6'3" Erik Rhodes together with fellow New Yorker 6'2" Ben Andrews to be the "twin towers". Michael said he didn't think it was worth sending out a press release, but apparently he will now... Naturally, there will be some controversy involved.

Apparently the pictures taken of the posters in the store were shot by Ben Andrews and posted to his MySpace site, which Falcon used for their press release. Whatever. I could re-write the story and give both guys equal billing, get stuck in the middle of a battle between studios, but I really don't have time for this. I have ten zillion billion links to all the gay porn studios, but they always seem to forget to send any links back to me.

You're welcome.

Posted by lavenderlounge at 12:54 PM

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