International Male catalogs

Brian Buzzini was always hot in them. He's the closest any man every got to supermodel.

My uncle used to get this catalog and one of our vacation homes was near a store and he took me along when he ran in to get something. I remember they constantly had onesies for sale.

Also, I remember there was one model who ended up getting a host gig on a tv show and then committed suicide.

His photo is below.

[quote]Brian Buzzini was always hot in them. He's the closest any man every got to supermodel.

Ahem (not that I'd've been seen in that...wear).

Oh sure. In the old days - we used to order stuff from there until we [html removed] outgrew them. It was funnier when my husband's brother would "borrow" them and order the most outlandish, sluttiest crap you've ever seen and wear it. He's straight. No gay man outside of WeHo would have been caught dead in the stuff he wore. But, he got laid like crazy.

Sexy pirate clothes. I used to jerk off these catalogs all the time.

i miss that catalog !!

Kevin Sorbonne was there.

/Sorbo

That’s Spencer Garbett, r2.

I jacked off SOO hard the teenaged me first found one, I might have hurt myself I was so turned on

and I FOUND the cover

This old topic again? Can’t you think of a reasonably fresh thread topic?

Did anyone buy a matching panty and cami set?

My straight friend used to come over and page through the IM catalog and seemed very interested, commenting on the impressive bulges of the models.

r12, you start

I loved those thongs.

The bulges were identical. They restricted their hairy models to one to three shots per issue.

I loved the sets - prefect contemporary knight in shining armor stalks fat chick in soft lighting. You could smell the anais anais.

so much sex, and they showed pubes, which JCPenny sure the fuck didn't

[quote]JCPenny

JC Penney

You could fill out an insert -- a prepaid postcard, to have a catalogue sent to you. Then you would be bombarded with them and seemingly could not get off their mailing list. So my friends and I started sending them in with the names and work AND home addresses of the most vile bullies and homophobes we knew.

My department chair (grad school) was rabidly antigay. Yep, he started getting them in the office. The mail people snickered and winked at him when they delivered the mail.

I love you, R20. I did that, too.

never knew of that, a fun trick

R21 And they put outrageous amounts of them in each catalogue; you could ALWAYS find some!

I bet those homophobes loved every single one

sexy pages

[quote]My uncle used to get this catalog

Was your uncle gay?

R20: LOVE, Love and ❤❤❤

R26, he was, and we used to share

Shemar Moore used to model for IM before he got the gig on Y&R:

R2, do they know why he killed himself?

It was basically gay porn you could look at without being outed ....just stylish

Kinky fun

I bought the football shorts with lacings - I thought they looked ridiculous when I got them, but wore them at the the White Party in Palms Springs and they got me instantly laid

All of the clothing was ridiculous. The bodies were gorgeous

David Knight dated Jason Gould for a while. What’s he doing these days? He must’ve turned into a real silver fox.

They bring back memories.

Wonder if Kavanaugh ever jacked off to them? Lindsey I'm sure of.

likely

It was my first “erotica”

It was erotic

Didn't International Male start to embrace the gay in the later years (mid 90s)? I vaguely remember rainbow jewelry and shit being sold in those rags. Didn't a lot of the IM models do gay porn?

some certainly did

One of the postings above suggests there was a bricks-and-mortar IM store somewhere. Can anyone comment or clarify the issue.

yeah, m there was in beverly hills.

When Caitlyn was a hunk

Thanks for reminding me of Brian Buzzini. I remember reading about his photo shoot for Cool Water fragrance and the photographer saying Buzzini won the genetic roulette sweepstakes's.

[quote] One of the postings above suggests there was a bricks-and-mortar IM store somewhere. Can anyone comment or clarify the issue.

I only knew of two stores. The first store was in San Diego and the other store was technically in West Hollywood, not Beverly Hills. I went in once but it wasn't very interesting. Kinda like The Sharper Image, where the stuff looked really great in a catalog but pretty ordinary sitting on a table, IM clothes without the IM models were not much fun

I know, because I wore some of it

Unfortunately, Buzzini was a very depressed guy for many years. He attempted suicide more than once before being successful.

R43 There was an International Male store in West Hollywood. It shared a one-story building with one of the very first Banana Republic stores. If I'm not mistaken, it looks like the building is now occupied by the West Hollywood Animal Hospital - owing to why there are large retail display type windows on front of this hospital. This is on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and La Peer - which is about a half block away from what used to be Studio One (the big gay disco and night club back in the day).

If you found a copy somewhere it always had pictures that stuck together.

I still have a pair of Australian rowing shorts from Under Gear. High cut, Poly/cotton blend with a draw string. Great for sleepwear.

There was one model (Christian?) who was in the catalogues. He was also on these fitness programs on cable in the 80s/early 90s. He may have been on the one with the hot Israeli guy.

I bought a pair of black suede (Oxford type) shoes from IM. They were great, lasting years and years. One of my favorite pairs of shoes I ever owned.

R47 IM had a store in Provincetown, MA. it didn't last the merchandise was cheaply made and the prices were high. There were tons of stores in PTown selling better quality products for less money.

I had a thing for this model, Sebastian Siegel

Nice tits

[quote]Unfortunately, Buzzini was a very depressed guy for many years. He attempted suicide more than once before being successful.

Was he a male homosexual?

He didn’t bother girls

I read a profile of Buzzini in Attitude I think, He said he is straight and IIRC married to a woman.

Brian Buzzini has four daughters.

R52, "I still have a pair of Australian rowing shorts from Under Gear. High cut, Poly/cotton blend with a draw string. Great for sleepwear."

God how I loved the look of those! i never bought a pair (or two or three) because i didn't think I was hot enough physically. The model who wore them was j/o material- so sexy!

I prefer the early IM catalogues, when they didn't photoshop the guys, lots of VPL.

Ah did too-ooo

[Quote]r30 do they know why [model Spencer Garbett] killed himself?

All I read was he was 27...and shot himself in the head at a residence in Brentwood.

Not what you’d expect from a six-time STAR SEARCH winner in the 'Male Spokesperson' category. (Or, maybe it is.)

I knew David Knight would morph into an awesome DILF!

he's got it all

2019 is the year of international males

Brian B. Is still working...

Omg, I used to wear all those clothes.

I’m wearing ALL of them in 2019

R64, Spencer was bipolar. Nicest guy and super sweet. Sort of shy. He used to flirt with me a bit but I never engaged. He was involved with a rich older man. In fact it was the older man's house that Spencer committed suicide in. Very sad.

He probably didn’t want to be a kept man.

Just seeing it in my mailbox gave me a boner.

My first serious boyfriend bought me some of those tiny short shorts from IM. Unfortunately the thing that he loves most about my body-my well rounded butt and thighs-meant that I was unable to wear them. We lasted for another year after that.

Slutty fun

I liked to look at the catalogues but never bought anything - totally not my style.

[quote] Unfortunately, Buzzini was a very depressed guy for many years. He attempted suicide more than once before being successful.

I think someone is confusing Brian B with Spencer.

Or did they both end their lives?

I’m not sure

R7 - Where did he study?

International Male used to have a yearly inventory clearance sample sale in the SF Bay Area. What a bunch of cheap polyester and spandex junk. It was in a huge warehouse. Each item was in a small plastic bag. All the items were grouped together in large cardboard boxes.

What sounded like such a good idea, was deadly boring. There was no sizzle. There was nothing hot about it. Without the model filling them out, all those pieces looked like the cheap shit it all was. International Male was a triumph of marketing. The garments themselves were awful.

Way back in the 70s, a friend visited Los Angeles for the first time. The IM store was on Santa Monica Boulevard and had a tiny parking 'lot' with three parking spaces directly in front of the store. He was so excited about going to International Male that he parked there and locked his keys in his rental car. Then he had to suffer through having someone from the car company come to rescue him from International Male while he acted demurely as if he had no idea what was inside and had never, ever, heard of the place.

I loved those sales

A few years ago this man offered to pay me money to "model," a bunch of "clothes," he had. He said he would pay me $100 for each item I tried on and posed for. All I had to do was wear the clothes, pose, and that's it. No photos, no nothing.

He was a lot older than I was and really creepy. He would show up to all of our meets as well as some of our practices, which is where he approached me several times asking if I was interested. One time he brought several of the "clothing" he wanted me to model and they were all underwear items with a label that said, "Undergear," (which I now know was part of the IM catalog. The last time he asked me he said he wanted me to try on 5 or 6 items and he would pay me $600 up front.

I declined because again, he was creepy as fuck. He then asked a teammate of mine and offered him $50/item. My teammate did it and continued to do it on and off for a year. He made a lot of money off that creeper.

30 years ago, I lost 80 lbs and went to the gym daily - bought several items - the ones I recall were the string muscle tees, some shorts and a singlet - which made my ass looked fantastic! Got laid every time I wore it.

I should have added that this was about 5 years ago, and the clothing items were all very old, and worn.

Good for you R83. Did you keep the weight off?

R83 here - R85 I did as a matter of fact - continued at the gym for 20 years - a shoulder injury kind of ended it - but i am still a trim toned 140.

Buzzini is alive. Garbett killed himself.

Brian Bianchini was a model/actor/trainer in LA that did commit suicide. I think he and Brian Buzzini are being confused.

Yes Bianchini killed himself. Parents wouldn't accept his being gay. His Playgirl spread was amazing.

I jacked off to the catalogues as soon as they came in the mail. I still have a collection. Lol.

I ordered a few things from them at one point but had to send them back. You couldnt be even one pound overweight and fit into that brand.

Brian Bianchini

Big cock

The company was headquartered in San Diego. For a brief period of time, I dated the creative director of the IM catalougue.

Brian Buzzini follows me on IG. What an honor!

R94, what an honour!