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Mark Simpson is an English journalist, writer, and broadcaster specialising in popular culture, media, and masculinity. Simpson is the originator of the term and concept metrosexual . He has been described by one critic as "the skinhead Oscar Wilde ".
Feb 24, 2024 · In 1994, Mark Simpson — now 58 — labelled all those young men who had begun to take care of their skin, their hair, their clothes and their esthetics, with the undisguised purpose of being...
About Mark Simpson. English author and journalist Mark Simpson is credited/blamed for coining the term ‘metrosexual ‘ in a 1994 essay in the UK’s Independent newspaper in which he predicted, with terrifying accuracy, that the future belonged to the male desire to be desired.
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Mar 8, 2018 · It’s been nearly a quarter century since author and journalist Mark Simpson coined the term “metrosexual.” Writing in The Independent back in 1994, he described an emerging subculture of men who had been “kept underground for too long.”
Jul 29, 2022 · Twenty years ago, my essay ‘Meet the Metrosexual’ was published on the (then) popular online US magazine Salon.com, introducing my insistently pretty offspring to America. Both the piece and he went virulently viral, starting an outbreak of global metrosexmania that lasted years. Thousands of media outlets ran items on him.
Meet The Metrosexual. By Mark Simpson. Originally appeared on Salon.com (22 July, 2002), virally introducing the word ‘metrosexual’ to the US. (Simpson’s 1994 Independent article ‘Here Come the Mirror Men ‘ is credited with being the first appearance of the word in print.) David Beckham, the captain of the England soccer team at this ...
Mark Simpson (b. 1988) is a UK-based composer of an acclaimed body of work and an internationally-renowned clarinettist, whose programmes champion music new and old.