You may have noticed that Josh Homme, deep into the rollout for the new Queens Of The Stone Age album Perfecth, is looking really, really good these days. Homme was always handsome, but he's clearly got one of these faces that gets more interesting as he ages. His eyes are a piercing blue.
He dresses in interesting ways. He's got dangly earring and tattoos on his fingers. He projects a certain calm authority.
There's just a lot to like there. Last weekend, Josh Homme made his runway debut, walking in a Paris Fashion Week show from the Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester. Ethel Cain also walked in the "Lonesome Heaven" show.
Chelsea Wolfe opened it by performing the unreleased song "Wandering," which she has been performing on tour, and her song "Whispers In The Echo Chamber" soundtracked the catwalk. But the part of the show that really went viral was the sight of Homme in a pinstripe suit, neckerchief, and flip-flops, really pulling off that Derek Zoolander expression. The writer Alex Nino Gheciu interviewed Homme for GQ about the viral reaction to his runway moment, and Homme said, "I’m waiting for the backlash of being in people’s feed too much...
Being there was like watching this beehive work of all these talented people. There was nothing not to like." There was, however, at least one thing that he didn't like: I wish they wouldn’t have painted my eyes brown, though. There was this makeup woman, and she’s like, “We are making everyone tired.” I was like, “Do that to the 20-year-olds.
Don’t make my eyes look tired. Hey, could you don’t do that?” That was my one gripe. On the subject of being described as a "silver fox," Homme says, "It’s better than being a dumb fox.
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