Andrés Velencoso + La Vanguardia Magazine

The heat was on to find a lustworthy topic for my 100th post on the Lust List and who better than my first Model Lust Andrés Velencoso. Luckily Andrés loves his fans, which led me to find his latest project via Twitter [follow @andresvelencoso].

Andrés appears in the latest issue of La Vanguardia Magazine. I've linked it for your lusting pleasure but, be prepared to think back to all those Spanish lessons in high school if you want to read the article. Or simply lust with your eyes and check out a rough translation of the article below.

Andrés is quoted as "a man of peace, who feels more comfortable with the camera than with the microphone". As you may or may not know, he is the lustable boy toy of Kylie Minogue. The article references that their relationship is not out of personal and professional advantage. That he is a man who respects others, and it would appear, respects love.

Born in Tossa de Mar, he was discovered in fashion at the height of "pre-anorexic sickly" models like those of Heidi Slimane for Dior Homme. Success for someone like Andrés who represented strong but natural muscle and a certain "masculinity both in face and body" seemed hopeless. Luckily for us, our friend Marc Jacobs disagreed and plastered this face of masculinity alongside Jennifer Lopez for Louis Vuitton all over New York. Vuitton led to Chanel, which led to Loewe, and so on.

Andrés is managing success at the age of 33, which is rare for most male models. He keeps intact the fundamentals of his life and remains "friendly and polite, never says a word higher than another, and sits well with everyone". It seems this Model Lust hasn't lost sight of his roots in Barcelona, visiting his sisters and father whenever he has a chance. Sometimes even working in his father's restaurant [if only Andrés was on the menu]. He feels very close to his family, especially after the passing of his mother in 2002 who encouraged him to pursue modeling rather than teach Physical Education. Her name, Lucia, appears on his chest in remembrance.

You can check out this blog devoted totally to his career here, and don't forget to lust with Andrés and the Lust List [@LustListTweets] on Twitter.

Andres Velencoso for McNeal

Wouldn't you know it! Destiny brought me to these new images of my favorite Model Lust Andres Velencoso. Okay, maybe not destiny [I'm only dreaming here] but, now you can lust along with me. Andres is shown here photographed by Marcell Hartmann for the McNeal lookbook on location in Oahu, Hawaii. The Lust List is green with envy for whoever got to lei my Andres [pun intended]. Aloha!

Model Lust : Andres & Jon in GQ Style

Have you seen the new GQ Style? Its got double the trouble in a fashion spread with Model Lust BFF's Jon Kortajarena and Andres Velencoso.  This isn't the first time they've been featured together, and hopefully it won't be the last.

Model Lust : Tony Ward

Anthony Borden Ward, better known as Tony Ward, is an American model, actor, fashion designer, painter, and photographer. Ward was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Santa Cruz [ironically, my favorite and least favorite cities].

Ward began his modelling career in 1983 and achieved fame as an international supermodel, first for Calvin Klein underwear with images by Herb Ritts. Later, he worked with photographers like Karl Lagerfeld, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, and Terry Richardson and for fashion designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Diesel, Fendi, H&M, and Hugo Boss. And yes, I did mention he is a fashion designer. He has his own line SixInTheFace "Hand Ravaged Clothing by Mr.Ward".

More recently, Ward is all over the print ads for Dolce & Gabbana [who seems to have the best taste in men]. These images are from Dolce & Gabbana's latest book Uomini, which should be arriving at my door sometime this week! The book features Ward and some of our other favorite Model Lust's like Andres Velencoso and Noah Mills.

Ward was Madonna's boyfriend [someone else who seems to have great taste in men] in the beginning of the 1990s and he appeared in some of her music videos as well as the controversial Sex book in 1992. You can spot him looking all kinds of sexy in the Justify My Love video.

Can you believe Tony Ward is 48 years old? Neither can I.

l'Officiel Hommes

I talk about it enough, I thought I should tell you about it. l'Officiel Hommes is one of my favorite twenty-dollars-for-a-magazine-you-don't-really-need guilty pleasures. Big, glossy, high fashion, and in French, which means I can't actually read it. The cover pictured is actually the first issue that landed in my hands, and the first time I fell in love with frequent guest, and my first Model Lust subject, Andres Velencoso.

l'Officiel Hommes made history in 2005 as a magazine created for the first time by a stylist and not by a journalist. Marie-José Susskind-Jalou,of Editions Jalou Publications, asked one of the founders of the Colette boutique in Paris, Milan Vukmirovic, to make a bi-annual magazine dedicated one hundered percent to fashion. It sets out to adress the trends of each season and presents a luxurious showcase for men's fashion.

Model Lust : Jon Kortajarena

Maybe I was sleeping on Jon Kortajarena, since he has been modeling for major fashion campaigns since 2004, but I never took notice of him until he played the street hustler Carlos in Tom Ford's A Single Man. Yes, another Spanish male model on the Model Lust list. I think I'm just a sucker for passion, which obviously exudes from his piercing stare, out of control hair, signature pout, and chiseled cheek bones.

A native of Bilboa, Spain, his mother is a hairdresser who still manages his signature locks [hey! just like me!]. He was discovered by a modeling agent when he attended a fashion show with a friend on vacation in Barcelona. He was only a minor at the time, and had to convince his parents to let him venture off to Paris to begin his now successful career. He has worked with numerous campaigns and designers including Versace, Etro, Diesel, Guess, and Tom Ford, to name a few. In 2009, Forbes magazine ranked him number eight in the World's Ten Most Successful Male Models.

Most recently, you can catch him in ads for David Yurman, and occasionally you can catch him in spreads with Andres Velencoso, a close personal friend, and my first Model Lust subject.

"For me, it's more about seduction than just a pretty face." - Jon Kortajarena [and I couldn't agree more]

Model Lust : Andres Velencoso

I'm a complete "modelizer" and could not think of any one better to share as my first Model Lust than Spanish male model Andres Velencoso. You can find him on the pages of L'Officiel Hommes in almost every issue, which is where I first spotted him when he graced the cover of No. 15.

Andres says his career didn't begin with some cliche story of being discovered in some supermarket by an agent, but instead was pushed to pursue modeling by his mother, Lucia [whose name is tattooed on his chest], and two sisters after finishing high school. It is rather cliche though that his career began with many rejections until a New York modeling agency named Natalie Kates signed him to Q Model Management.

I've watched some interviews with him on youtube [sadly, the obsession is that bad] and he seems incredibly humble, which is incredibly sexy. I'm sure Kylie Minogue would agree, they've been dating since July 2008.