Deilin is NY's Hottest Latino Model

Deilin has won the NY competition as Next's Hottest Model. He is now in the finals competing against 11 other models from across the country and around the world hoping to be crowned Next's Hottest Model of the Year.

Please vote for him by clicking on all of the links below once per day for the next five days, so he can get as many votes as possible. If he wins, I win. The photographer who shoots the top model is crowned the top photographer, so, cono, help a Boricua brother out, carajo!

Thanks.

Click here:

http://nextmodelmen.typepad.com/nextman/2009/12/deilin-sanz-next-man-ny.html
http://nextmodelmen.typepad.com/next_model_men/2009/12/d-3.html
http://nextmodelmen.typepad.com/expressmen/2009/12/d-3.html
http://nextmodelmen.typepad.com/hottestmodel/2009/12/d-3.html
http://nextmodelmen.typepad.com/focusguys/2009/12/d-3.html
http://nextmodelmen.typepad.com/gossipmodel/2009/12/d-3.html

"Baby Dolls and Corsets"

Stay tuned for the editorial tribute to Franky Rosario, aka FAR Couture, who succumbed to cancer a month after his last NY fashion week show, to be published in Bello Magazine.

Fashion Show Make-Up and Body Art

This year, I took my body art to some of NY's runway shows. Here are some shots from various shows. Although the make-up/body art is mine, some of the photography is the work of others. Each photo is tagged, though, so everyone gets credit, cono.

NICO & ADRIAN NY Underwear

So, Adrian Alicea has finally done it and gone ahead and designed his own brand of underwear under the NICO & ADRIAN NY name. Special thanks to Alek and Step at Ohlala for running an article on the brand and the shows.



These shots are from the launch party at Splash.

Here are the follow-up shots of Adrian's own vogue extravaganza at the Box two weeks later.

To order your own pair, go to www.nicoandadrian.com.

So, how do you like my facial body art?

Carlos Sotelo

Carlito el chulito is my final Next Hottest Model on ExpressMen. Click on his name for more of his pix and his interview on ExpressMEN.

Stay tuned for the winner of my New York model-of-the-year award. The winner will be decided by readers from among eight contestants: Santiago, Corona, Joe, Nick, Will, Deilin, Erik and Carlos. Who's your favorite?

Sancocho

Been busy. Few shoots--with weeks to months between them. Decided to send a hodge-podge of sample shots to the guys at Beautiful. Here are some of the pix I call, "Sancocho." Click on the title above to read the full article and see all of the pix. Also below is a snippet of the write-up from the article.

"Sancocho is a Caribbean latino stew, where everything but the kitchen sink is thrown into a pot and slow-cooked until you get a nice, thick, meaty concoction. This is how Ricardo Muniz described the series he sent in for our consideration. We have to say, we are not quite sure if we agree with the mix and match image we get when hearing Ricardo’s explanation, but we do like the nice, meaty and slow-cooked sensation. Sex objects or not, there is no doubt Ricardo’s men are hot." --Beautiful Mag, October 24, 2009.

Special thanks to the models (Deilin, Will, Joe, Corona, Nick, David, Cesar and Jason) and the clothing people (Aussiebum, Wettackle, Vizeau, and ES Collection). And, of course, big hugs to Rob and Yann at Beautiful Mag.

Erik Gilmore

Erik, my former teammate from the Royals (BASL softball), is my latest model at Next Hottest Model. Congrats to you and Lidya on the baby.