Shenki Versace (real name Shenki Maslani), a 30-year-old Albanian car salesman living in northern Macedonia, shows off his obsession with Italian fashion label Versace in pictures, above and below.

Shenki recently spoke to the Macedonian media about his obsession, saying that virtually everything he owns has either the Versace name or the company’s iconic Medusa logo on it – from clothing and jewelry to his several luxury cars and even his house. The young car salesman claims to have spent around $1.1 million on his obsession, and has no regrets. And why should he? He’s living the Versace dream.

“I have been obsessed with Versace since 2009,” Shenki says. “I started to buy Versace clothes and then branded every single item in my house to Versace. From the floor in the bathroom to bed sheets. I branded my cars, pool, home, even the tiles in the kitchen. My jewelry, cosmetics, bedding, carpets, curtains, there is nothing that has not been branded. You know, even the plates I eat from have the Versace sign on it. Curtains, too. Every single item in my home. My life is Versace.”

“I live my Versace dream and I do not regret paying 188 euro for my Versace underpants or 45 Euro for Versace socks,” the now famous Shenki Versace concluded.

After planning to legally change his name to Shenki Versace, he says he wants to open a Versace cafe, which will be his ultimate homage to the brand he loves so much.

“I’m sure the place will be a real attraction and I plan to get the legendary Donatella Versace along to the opening. I hope she will come,” he added.

Donatella, are you reading this? I hope you go. I hope you stay at Villa Shenki Versace. (And I hope you bring a faaaaaaaabulous hostess gift for him).

(via Oddity Central)

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On this episode of UNHhhh, Trixie and Katya discuss even MORE of their favorite beauty tips and tricks!

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Are you spinning your wheels, unable to come up with a decent Halloween outfit? Does the idea of being Donald Trump or Barb from Stranger Things leave you flat? FEAR NOT! I’ve compiled a MASSIVE playlist of Halloween-themed or Halloween-adjacent Transformation episodes that’s sure to jumpstart your creative juices! Thirty-two episodes in all! Including (but not limited to) Mathu Andersen! Dax ExclaimationPoint! Ginger Minj! Detox! Sharon Needles! Manila Luzon! AND MORE! Hours (and hours… and hours…) of pure Transformational BLISS at your fingertips. Start watching NOW!

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The mother of Bob The Drag Queen, Martha Anna Caldwell, was taken to a hospital Sunday night with non-life threatening injuries after a gunman hopped out of a car and started shooting at another man. Caldwell was in her car about a block away when one of the rounds struck the windshield , causing glass and projectile fragments to strike her face.

Bob confirmed the story to TMZ, saying:

“It’s a miracle that she’s not only alive, but able to go home after a few stitches.”

TMZ says that Bob is pissed about the shooting and railed on what he calls Georgia’s “lax gun laws.” He pleaded,

“This could have been you, or worse this could have been your mother.”

More news on her recovery as we get it.

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Hannah Lux Davis has directed the gleefully lurid video for band’s first single off their self-titled debut album. In it, a sexy AF Joe Jonas cavorts with a blond model in an elevator where they undress and pose and dance and dry hump each other, as you do. Meanwhile his bandmates (including the suddenly hot mohawked dude) hook up various other models and undress and pose and dance and dry-hump each other. It’s all very titillating and scandalous and easily the best music video of the week. And the best music video of their career. And yowza, Joe. Whatever you and your trainer are doing, KEEP IT UP.

Also: just pointing it out, I have that same hole-y t-shirt from American Apparel that Joe’s wearing. OMG I LOVE YOU JOOOOOOOOOOE!

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On the FABULOUS new series “All My Gay Friends Are Getting Married,” on ABC Digital’s new app, host Michelle Collins sits down for a chat with newly married gay couples who regale her with tales of their over-the-top, super-fabulous weddings. Each couple shares the story of their amazing journey to the altar, along with tantalizing tidbits about their incredible guests, locations, and themes from their big day..,

Five episodes, five timeless couples available ONLY on the app (which you can download here.)

JSJ: Hello gorgeous! So I just now watched your new show All My Gay Friends Are Getting Married for ABCDigital and I loveloveloved it!
Michelle Collins: Are the reviews in? You liked it?

I thought it was superfun! Why don’t you tell us a little bit about what it is, and how you came up with the idea…
Well I love hosting people, I love interviewing people, and who do I love more than my gay friends? I mean, truly, without them I would be like Howard Hughes peeing in jars [laughs]. I would have like three girlfriends and that would be it. No, I’m just kidding. But you know what I’m saying. So I discussed it with ABC and it just kind of came about that what’s a better way to celebrate then to interview these wonderful gay couples about their weddings. Its something that is just so new. And it’s something that has only been happening the past few years.

Everybody loves a wedding and everyone loves a good wedding story. So it seems that it is a perfect match.
Thats right! Listen, I love a wedding. In fact, I just invited myself to a wedding recently. I met these people at a brunch back in March and they were like “Yeah we’re getting married in Santa Barbara” and I was like “I’ll be there! When is it!?” and I went to it in August! [laughs]. I will worm my way into any nuptial. The thing is, with these couples (on the show) I didn’t know them before I interviewed them, so they were strangers to me. Which I actually thought was kind of fun. I get to learn every aspect of their lives, how they met, how they fell in love… And, of course, I’ve been watching Say Yes to the Dress for 10 years now, and there are rarely gay men on the show. Sometimes they have lesbian couples but that’s, like, a Very Special Edition – a Flintstones-meets-The Jetsons kind of thing – you know, very, very rare. So it was a nice way to learn about their stories because there really isn’t anything on TV or online that really does that at the moment.

Some of them were really touching, the first story with Jeff and Paul (Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, the couple who overturned Prop 8 in the Supreme Court) talking about how they were coming down the Supreme Court steps and people were chanting “Thank You, Thank You”, I got a little teary eyed. It was a really sweet moment.
Michelle Collins: It’s interesting because initially I thought this show was gonna be so funny and constant laughs and then when I was sitting down with them it’s obviously not just that.

Right! They are a part of history!
Exactly. They are people who really believed in their cause. And to me, thats the best thing to listen to. I loved those touching moments when we were talking to the couples. Like Josh and Michael, the ones who got married in the south. One was a pastor, married with kids.

OMG! Yes! The couple from Nashville. LOVED THEM! When I saw Josh’s hair – that Farrah Fawcett ‘do – and the bejeweled cape, his blinded-out bag, I just am obsessed, absolutely obsessed with him!
I actually felt much less beautiful around him [laughs]. The woman who did my hair and makeup is also RuPaul’s HMU artist – which alone is worth doing the show – so I felt pretty good… and then he showed up and I was like “oh shit…” [laughs]. But they were so sweet. Having to come out to your entire congregation, when you are leading them, and then on top of that having them accept you. It was just a pretty special thing. I assume some churches or even religions wouldn’t be as accepting. It’s just a really nice thing. It shows that we are moving forward as a nation, slowly, but surely.

Almost all of the stories are over the top in their own ways. There were a lot of very ra-sha-sha, star-studded affairs. Like Danny and Aaron, who came in on the unicorn, I just loved that.
They were hysterical, those two. This show was also way for me to make friends [laughs]. I was in LA last month and I went out with Danny for some wine! I really wormed my way into making new friends.

Yeah, they all seem pretty A-list [laughs] and good people to know. At Danny and Aaron’swedding, for example, Joss Stone was the canter, John Legend sang, then J-Lo gave that shout out. And you know the couple, Jamal and Octavious, who got married on MTV, I saw Sonny from Days of Our Lives in the wedding in the background. So I was super- impressed with them too!
It’s interesting how, and I’m not going to say they run Hollywood, but they had some suspicious connections [laughs]. How they had John Legend just come rolling in. It’s like “Oh thats exciting”. A fun part of this show is also me having FOMO… of not knowing them before the wedding. I have so much fun at weddings, four tequilas in you’re like “she is so fun, where has she been our who life”. It really just describes my three favorite things in life; weddings, interviewing people, and fun gays!

Well, it’s a really fun series. I hope you’re doing more. Do you know anything about doing more episodes?
We are still waiting. There might be talk about doing another season. We would expand, if that happens, and bring in other diverse couples. We are really hoping a second season will come out of it for sure. There are so many people who need to tell their stories. We can’t just end with 5 episodes! In fact if anyone reading this has a fabulous gay wedding to share, tweet me @michcoll or Instagram me pictures of what I missed!

Thank you so much for you time. And please come visit us at WOW when you are in LA!
I would love to. Thank you!

Download all five episodes HERE.

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Here’s DJ Paul V‘s perfect 30-minute megamix, featuring the trailblazing out and queer artists who shaped and inspired us all. From Freddie Mercury to Fischerspooner to RuPaul and beyond. Play it out loud and proud! If you love it, follow Paul on Twitter.

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October 11, 1987– The NAMES Project Memorial Quilt is shown for the first time. The idea for The Quilt was conceived in 1985 by activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march in remembrance of the 1978 murders of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

At that time, many people who died of AIDS-related causes did not receive funerals due to both the social stigma of HIV and the outright refusal by many funeral homes and cemeteries to handle the deceased’s remains. Lacking a memorial service or grave site, The Quilt was often the only opportunity friends and families had to remember and celebrate their loved ones’ lives.

The first showing of The Quilt was on this very day in 1987 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It covered a space larger than a football field WITH 1,920 panels (today it has over 48,000 panels). Over a three-day weekend, half a million people visited the Quilt.

It is enormous. Weighing more than 55 tons, it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world.

The Quilt was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT won the Academy Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary that same year.

 The NAMES Project Foundation was formed in 1987 as the custodian of The Quilt and its archives, and to foster healing, heighten awareness, and inspire action in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Do you know someone remembered with a panel? I do.

You can “like” The Quilt on The Facebook and you help maintain The Quilt by going to http://www.aidsquilt.org/donate

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So CoverGirl DOES cover boy!  The cosmetic company just announced the addition of James Charles, a 17-year-old male makeup artist and YouTuber, to join the illustrious roster of celebrity spokesmodels like Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Queen Latifah. James, you may recall, went viral last month when he decided to reshoot his senior photos so that his makeup could be, as the kids say, “on fleek.” (SEE PHOTO, ABOVE) His tweet attracted over 37,000 retweets and led to the groundbreaking offer from CoverGirl.

Katy Perry announced his ascendency to supermodel status at a press conference this morning, saying she was “honored to have the pleasure to announce the very first COVERBOY, James Charles!” James will start by being the face and lashes of a new mascara launch, and will later be fully integrated into ads and commercials.

Condragulations, James!

From USA Today:

Charles — who first began documenting his work on Instagram a year ago and went viral last month following his fierce yearbook shoot — will continue the partnership through the year and star in CoverGirl’s new mascara campaign, “So Lashy,” which goes live later this month.

“I am so honored and excited to be working with such an iconic brand,” he wrote on his personal Instagram. “I started my Instagram one year ago to inspire others and as an artistic outlet to challenge myself creatively. I truly hope that this shows that anyone and everyone can wear makeup and can do anything if you work hard.”

 

Just wrapped another great @COVERGIRL shoot. Honored to have the pleasure to announce the very first COVERBOY, James Charles! Follow him @JCharlesBeauty! #COVERGIRLJames #glam❗️

A photo posted by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on Oct 10, 2016 at 10:52pm PDT

It’s official: so excited to welcome @JCharlesBeauty to the COVERGIRL family. ❤️ Show your support for James by regramming his COVERGIRL vid using #COVERGIRLJames!

A video posted by COVERGIRL (@covergirl) on Oct 11, 2016 at 6:17am PDT

Meet @JCharlesBeauty: makeup artist, boundary breaker, and the newest COVERGIRL! Spread the word by regramming using #COVERGIRLJames.

A photo posted by COVERGIRL (@covergirl) on Oct 11, 2016 at 7:03am PDT

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Fresh off two Critic’s Choice Documentary nominations for HBO and WOW produced Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive has been short listed for a 2016 Aperture Book Award.

Check it out:

Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive is in-depth analysis of Mapplethorpe and the commercialization of the sexual black male body by Frances Terpak and Michelle Brunnick, with essays by Patti Smith and Jonathan Weinberg.

The book is said to:

Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, combining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history. Mapplethorpe’s artistic vision helped shape the social and cultural fabric of the 1970s and ’80s and, following his death in 1989 from AIDS, informed the political landscape of the 1990s. His photographic works continue to resonate with audiences all over the world.

You can order your copy here.

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Sources say it’s no longer a matter of “IF” but “WHEN” embattled TV host Billy Bush will go from being suspended to being fired by the network. One of those sources said his departure will be announced “in the coming days.”

According to CNN Money, he is effectively already gone.

After being suspended on Sunday night, his name was missing from the 9 a.m. hour graphics on Monday and Tuesday. He and his assistant have not been in the office.

Behind the scenes at the “Today” show, “everyone’s just shaking their head,” said one of the staffers who spoke anonymously for this story.

What’s clearing the way for his removal, a third staffer said, is that Bush is new to the show — “he isn’t really a part of the ‘Today’ show family yet.”

This “family” concept, while easy to mock from the outside, is genuinely important to both “Today” insiders and viewers. The hosts were once dubbed “America’s first family,” and this sense of closeness is important to the audience at home. Plus, the show has a relatively tight-knit staff that has squeezed outsiders out before.

He had a “rocky entrance,” an on-air source noted, pointing to Bush’s weak interview with Ryan Lochte in Rio. “He was in the papers too much.”

Furthermore, “he didn’t ingratiate himself with Al Roker and Tamron Hall,” the other regular co-hosts of the 9 a.m. hour, the source said.

Bush has apologized for his lewd comments, made in 2005 with Donald Trump, but has not made said anything to the media since.

From Seth Meyers (pre-permanent ousting):

(Top photo: Pacific Coast News)

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ConDRAGulations to producers Randy Barbat0 & Fenton Bailey, directors Chris McKim & Eva Orner, stars Nayyef & Btoo, and everyone involved in making the amazing love story Out Of Iraq from Logo and World of Wonder on the film being screened this Saturday, October 15 at 7PM at TWIST – Seattle’s Queer Film Festival!

And that’s not all! Not only will love-birds and super cuties Nayyef and Btoo taking over Logo’s Snapchat the night of the premiere, they’ll also be joined by the man who helped to bring them together, Michael Failla. It’s an event NOT to be missed! Get your tickets!

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Now you can watch Bianca Del Rio aka Roy Haylock – winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6 – STARRING in her first feature film alongside BIG NAMES like RuPaul, Rachel Dratch, Alan Cumming, and Margaret Cho in Hurricane Bianca, now available on Vimeo, Amazon, iTunes, on DVD, or stream it internationally via WolfeOnDemand!

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Ken Bone, the cheerily dressed “undecided” at the 2nd presidential debate, has clearly captured the public’s imagination. With his distinctive red sweater, manly Midwestern mustache, and disposable camera, he’s a natural choice for a Halloween costume. Unfortunately, IZOD has announced that they already mostly sold out of the iconic red sweater he wore.

But fear not, #BoneZoners, Halloween costumier Yandy has turned the Kenneth Bone “look” into a costume. They’re calling it the “Sexy Undecided Voter Costume.”

Via HuffPo:

We have absolutely no idea why you’d want to go as a sexy Kenneth Bone for Halloween, particularly when the costume costs nearly $100. Oh, and the mustache looks more like Groucho Marx’s than it does dear Kenny Bone’s.

The costume description says it features “an iconic red crop top with cap sleeves, a white cropped undershirt, blue high waisted pants with a back zipper closure, the must-have mustache, black glasses and a microphone.”

Apparently, Yandy started taking pre-orders on Tuesday and sold out its initial run “within four hours,” according to People.

This is why we can’t have nice memes.

Yeah, and that red crop top looks like it’s just a recycled “slutty Mrs Clause.” You’d be better off making your own Ken Bone.

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Cakes Da Killa collaborated with Adult Swim on a technicolor, animated lyric video for his new single, “New Phone (Who Dis?)” and it’s legendary already. You’re gonna want to delete all your exes numbers and clap along to the catchy new tune.

You HAVE to check it out:

Gag on it, hunties:

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Actor John Malkovich along with acclaimed photographer Sandro Miller and Squarespace have collaborated to celebrate the release of a new David Lynch tribute album; The Music of David Lynch. The website features a number of different vignettes where Malkovich reinterprets characters from Lynch’s iconic films.

This series of never-before-seen photographs from Playing Lynch are now available through Artsy and proceeds benefit the David Lynch Foundation, which helps at-risk children and adults by through Transcendental Meditation techniques in inner-city schools, military hospitals, and shelters.

The images are amazing whether you are familiar with Lynch’s films, Malkovich’s acting, Sandro’s photography or not. Go to PlayingLynch.com to see the clips and here the music.

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Heretofore untold truths about the iconic slasher series: Jason was almost named Josh (which is SO TOTALLY NOT SCARY), the kid who played Jason in the original now has a metal band called “First Jason,” and big-time Hollywood actress Betsy Palmer only agreed to do the first movie so she could buy Volkswagen Scirocco… ALL THESE AND MORE CRAZY STORIES in the video below!

The name Jason Voorhees is synonymous with horror. The hockey mask-wearing, machete-toting maniac has terrorized unsuspecting precoital teens for decades. Since Friday the 13th hit screens in 1980, the franchise has produced 12 movies, a TV show, a series of graphic novels, and a brutal video game, but audiences still want more. Jason’s origin and evolution are known to many genre devotees, but a look behind the scenes at how he came to be one of the most recognizable movie monsters of all time reveals how close he also came to total obscurity.

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Check out the latest videos from our WOWPresents Network! Tom Goss, Stephanie Brite, Capitol Hill, Chris Sapphire, Watts the Safeword, and SO MANY MORE all have new videos from the WOWPresents Network!!! Watch all these and more right now on the WOW Report!

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Omg, HOW have I not been following this story closer?

Married Louisiana politician Mike Yenni apologized in a new video for a series of sexts (and MORE!) to a 17-year-old boy that have landed him in hot water. In addition to the sexts (which included salacious offers of sex acts and threesome fantasies) he also allegedly bought the boy underwear and kissed him in a mall bathroom. Although he didn’t reeeeeeeally go into detail in his apology video (and has no plans to step down as Jefferson Parish president), he did say he would “work hard every day to prove that good people can rise from a bad decision” and that he’s “smart enough never to repeat the past.’

In the one-minute infomercial, Yenni – a Republican politician who has a three-year-old daughter with wife Michelle – says his constituents “deserve the truth from (him) directly.”

‘Last summer I was old enough to know better, but I guess I was still young enough to do something stupid,’ 40-year-old Jefferson Parish President Mike Yenni says in the video posted by NOLA.com.

‘I chose to send improper texts to a young man,’ he explains. ‘I won’t go into details out of respect for the rights and privacy of all parties.’

His remarks come just over a week after the FBI confirmed it was investigating claims he had an improper relationship with the teen, which included kissing him, buying him underwear and sending sexts of threesome fantasies.

From Daily Mail:

According to WWL TV, Yenni was introduced to the youth by a 19-year-old mutual friend at a function being held at the boy’s Catholic high school. Their relationship is said to have developed through phone and text messages, with Yenni allegedly meeting the boy at his food court job to give him designer underwear. It’s also alleged that the two briefly kissed in the mall’s bathroom.

The youth provided WWL with text messages sent by Yenni from a personal number. That number is not being billed to taxpayers. In the texts, Yenni allegedly asks the boy if he’s worn the underwear and says he wants to see him modeling them. He also says he wants to perform a sex act on the boy, and that he would like a threesome with the boy and their 19-year-old mutual friend, it is claimed.

The youth said he was flattered at first by the attention, but became uncomfortable with the increasingly detailed texts.

‘He asked me to go with him to his house in Oxford (Mississippi),’ the youth told WWL. ‘Also, the way he would describe the sexual things he wanted to do to me. And he asked me to be a secretary or assistant in his office; that way I could be with him and not be questioned.’

The age of consent in Louisiana is 17, so a sexual relationship would not have been illegal – but it has hit Yenni’s career hard.

In his video, Yenni says he ‘never abused or misused’ his powers as a public official, but only addresses the sexting claims.

And the video hasn’t stopped local officials demanding his head.

On Thursday, Jefferson Parish Councilman at-large Chris Roberts and council Chairwoman Cynthia Lee-Sheng drafted a letter calling for Yenni’s resignation. They join Jefferson County’s coroner, Gerry Cvitanovich; assessor, Thomas Capella; and clerk of court Jon Gegenheimer in demanding Yenni step down.

But in his video Yenni makes it quite clear that he’s going nowhere.

‘I will work hard every day to prove that good people can rise from a bad decision,’ he says. ‘I’m certainly not afraid of the future because I’m smart enough never to repeat the past.’

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We’ve had many legends walk through World of Wonder Headquarters, and today’s ‘Receptionist of the Day’ continues that legacy because a certain Diesel Artistic Director graced the fourth floor offices and brought, flare, fashion, and fierceness, hunties.

Check it out:

Why, it’s none other than Nicola Formichetti!!!

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