L'uomo Vogue Italia revisits the magic duo of their luglio/agusto issue, which OC reported on here, with a follow-up of the Roberto Bolle/Juan Diego Flórez KO sucka punch [stay tuned next for Bolle].
Over the summer we saw the L’uomo Vogue feature "Private People and Their Own Style", and highlighted the spread of JDF photographed by Bryan Adams. Here in the dicembre issue (with Snoop Dogg on the cover), we find a few outtakes and a small write-up of our favorite Peruvian from Peru.
The article doesn’t divulge anything that hasn’t been heard before: amazement @ Flórez's multifarious accomplishments, his flawless voice & seamless acting, his grace & beauty, his rise to fame, the important players, the life lessons, etc…
But this time, JDF name-drops someone in the industry outside of opera, by mentioning an encounter with Salma Hayek, relaying that time when she asked him all about the strange idiosyncrasies of opera acting. It’s all good, JD, we’d mention Hayek, too, if we knew her and her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, head of PPR, who owns Gucci, YSL, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen (just to name a few). Own it like it’s yours, JDF, we'll never give you any static. They could publish pictures of you kicking kittens and clubbing baby seals, and we’d still <3 u. Even with that mullet in the last picture...
(Above: The image was faux aged/washed-out...think old Kokachrome from the late 70s...not crappy photoshop skillz)
