Ditto Akimbo // Big Vamping

Another month and another hilarious issue of Out catwalks into the AnA loft. Beth Ditto smolders on the cover a la i-D Magazine but we approve a muff-diving Barbarella, especially when she can scowl with her eyes like this.

With this and a pin-up spread from LOVE magazine under her enviably Rubenesque belt, La Ditto cements her editorial panache. She gives FACE throughout. Gays rejoice, our thunderous goddess is here!

Hallowed Be Thy Tame / Whip It

Yank it, strangle and flex.

Dandy Decisions Akimbo!

The eternal question: Which brand of dandy are you? The issue arises via many men's editorial this month, and it boils down roughly to two divergent directions. The sophisticate Brit as done by Out Magazine and played by Steve Gold?

Or for the love of accessory do you swing to the more flamboyant beat à la Vogue Hommes Japan?

Choices! Either way Spring is the time to experiment. AnA expects a lot of new looks and experimental shapes from you all!

Manning Up Akimbo // Athletics

Here at the AnA loft, "exercise" means walking in 6-inch Laboutins; carrying Venti non-fat vanilla foam lattes; struggling with giant Givenchy snakeskin totes on bone-thin limbs; and giving FACE. But at Out Magazine, which we're loving right now, the girls give us an idea of higher-end traditional athletic wear that we've seen Chelsea queens wear through the tint of our aviators.

Loving the neon, a hint of boy cleavage and arms. Summer is coming so your biceps better be tanned and skinnay!

Out Akimbo // Thighs

The girls over at Out Magazine treat us to a fun, colorful ode to European menswear with this, an energetic editorial about bright leggings, neon and other great looks for summer. The rosy shirt on the left, by Romain Kremer, shows how to mix pinks (read: complimentarily); and Akimbo would like to go on record on the adorability of mixing shoes-to-shirt.Many a day pass here at the Akimbo war room with all of us girls in some sort of legging. Glad to see Louis Vuitton promoting our ideas with these graphic prints. Euro knitwear label Sibling sneaks into our hearts with that adorable leopard print sweater; it's sequined.

Those graphic trousers look shockingly akin to those newspaper-print jeans worn by one Ms. Dolly; but hey, not everyone can be original.

If anyone gets their claws on a Lycra bodsuit, perhaps like this orange psycahdelic number by Walter Van Beirendonck, please forward it over; our thighs are toned from catwalking all last week and we need to show them off! Yes yes, loving sneakers too.
And finally, like only a gay rag can do, here are the best swimsuits of the season; and by the best we mean the ones that slip innocently off of muscled bodies when pulled by teeth. VERSACE DUVET. On a sad note, most of these clothes are from newer smaller European lines that are not available yet here in the States; sugar daddy shopping trip to Paris? Anyone? Anyone?