as-a-man-grows-older

abalk · 08/27/07 08:36AM

The audience for men's magazines is maturing, but don't call readers metrosexual. The Financial Times talks to Men's Vogue editor Jay Fielden, who is trying to sneak fashion past suspicious straight guys. "'Earning your way into men's working and leisure time is a difficult thing,' says Mr Fielden, who previously worked as an editor at Vogue and The New Yorker and might serve as a stand-in for his ideal reader. At our meeting in the Condé Nast cafeteria, he was wearing a pinstripe suit with a pink polkadot handkerchief. His tie was askew. Yet Mr Fielden's Texas roots filter through his accent, he is married, and can credibly claim to hunt quail." Hunting quail? Don't go getting too butch on us, Jay. We're easily confused. [FT]