Review: Men’s Fashion, Gay History and a Party-Like Atmosphere at All Man: The International Male Story
From directors Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed, the documentary All Man: The International Male Story tells the decades-long, trend-setting story of a male-centric clothing catalog that turned into one of the most influential fashion journals of the 20th century. The brainchild of Wisconsin-born, formerly closed GI Gene Burkard, the International Male The catalog wasn’t explicitly geared toward gay men when it was introduced in the 1970s, but the colorful and forward-thinking designs altered definitions of masculinity and cosmopolitanism to a degree that gay men tended to be its primary customers out of the gate.
But with the magazine’s ridiculously…