Sex, Love, and Fashion by Bruce Hulse

From the Publisher

You may think you’ve heard everything about the modeling industry from Tyra Banks, but Sex, Love, and Fashion is the real behind-the-scenes scoop, from a true insider who is considered one of the top ten male models of all time.

In the glamorous galaxy of modeling, Bruce Hulse was a supernova. Taken under the wing of famed photographer Bruce Weber as a fledgling model, Hulse went on to collaborate with the industry’s biggest names as one of the world’s top male models.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the exciting world of top models was filled with sex, drugs, and countless other indulgences. Bruce Hulse is one of the most recognizable figures of that time; from his iconic Calvin Klein and Levi's ads to his appearance on the cover of GQ, his face defined an era. In Sex, Love, and Fashion, Bruce shares the true stories of his globe-trotting career working with some of the industry’s biggest names–Calvin Klein, Janice Dickinson, Herb Ritts, Elle Macpherson, Andie MacDowell, Paulina Porizkova, and Cindy Crawford among them–and also details the exhilarating successes and painful failures he experienced on his way to the top.

Bruce Hulse pulls back the curtain on the life of an international supermodel and reveals everything the cameras don’t expose. Sex, Love, and Fashion is a dishy, sexy, and honest look at what really happens to beautiful people playing in the often decadent fields of fashion glory.

Publishers Weekly

One of the world's top male models-working for Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, among others-Hulse describes being a "star athlete" as a teenager, before going to Cornell, where he modeled nude for art classes; discovered his first guru, Maharaj Ji; and cultivated his passion for surfing. Once he realized that modeling paid better than carpentry, he commissioned a portfolio, signed with an agency and worked every booking he was offered. Soon, top photographers like Bruce Weber were hiring him regularly. While meditation helped him stay centered, and running and surfing kept him in shape, his sexual appetite was uncontrollable; he bedded countless models. Then he ran into a woman he'd met years before, and they both knew Hulse had to stop womanizing for their relationship to work. With newfound trust, the two married and had children together-an oddly conventional ending to an otherwise exotic life story. Hulse's unabashed kiss-and-tell, plus all his photos, add up to a surprisingly entertaining memoir. (Aug.)

Kirkus Reviews

The "male Lauren Hutton" spills all. It will be the rare reader of supermodel Hulse's memoir who doesn't envy at least some aspects of the life splashed across these shallow, sunny pages. Growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, he had an all-American glow. A football star, then lifeguard, surfer and jobbing carpenter with a wide-ranging band of buddies at his side, he rode the decade's buoyant waves to easy good times. At a girlfriend's suggestion, the sleekly muscled Hulse, whose gleaming visage and pecs dot this book in a mix of ad reproductions and snapshots, moved into modeling as a way of making easier money than hammering nails. The work was slow at first but built steadily. By the '80s, he was one of the earliest male supermodels, thriving under the tutelage of Bruce Weber and reveling in exotic photo shoots and constant adulation. Although the work slowed down once he hit silver-haired middle age, Hulse kept a solid modeling career going into his second half-century; he was recently a judge on a modeling reality show. In what is sure to be one of the book's major selling points, he gossips about the steady supply of bedmates he found among female models, detailing steamy encounters with Paulina Porizkova ("it was like a professional wrestling match") and a pre-Hollywood Andie MacDowell ("we made love all night long"). Reality-TV fans will be disappointed, however, to find out Hulse didn't bed Janice Dickinson; he was turned off by her "negative aura." The author isn't just a serial womanizer, he tells us; he's also into meditation and Eastern philosophies and is more than happy to sprinkle his thoughts on such matters throughout the book. A few juicy insider stories, but in generala flatly delivered recital of events, all seen through the narrow prism of naked self-regard. Agent: Alan Nevins/The Firm

Details from Seller

• ISBN: 0307381684
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Pub. Date: August 2008
• Condition:

Comments from the Seller: 2008 Hardcover Fine Publisher overstock. May have remainder mark.

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