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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
No. "Metrosexual" is not synonymous with the fashion in GQ. GQ is how gentlemen should dress. Not to sound too elitist, but any lawyer or businessman ought to dress like the men in GQ. I would not describe this as metrosexual or dandy, but "dandy" is closer than "metrosexual" to the GQ style.
To my native ear, "metrosexual" involves more than just clothing (which is often quite tight and has a style typically associated with either gay culture or female culture). GQ is about looking traditionally manly (good, "normal" haircut; nice suits, ties, etc.). It's called the Gentlemen's Quarterly for a reason!
I think maybe "dandy" might be the 19th and early 20th centuries' equivalent of "metrosexual." Well, analogue. Not equivalent.
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I used to subscribe to GQ, and when I think of metrosexual I think of those images that I see in it.
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The promotion of metrosexuality was left to the men's style press, magazines such as The Face, GQ, Esquire, Arena and FHM, the new media which took off in the Eighties and is still growing (GQ gains 10,000 new readers every month). They filled their magazines with images of narcissistic young men sporting fashionable clothes and accessories. And they persuaded other young men to study them with a mixture of envy and desire.
Some people said unkind things. American GQ, for example, was popularly dubbed ''Gay Quarterly''. Little wonder that all these magazines — with the possible exception of The Face — address their metrosexual readership as if none of them were homosexual or even bisexual.
—Mark Simpson, "Here come the mirror men," The Independent, November 15, 1994
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Word Spy - metrosexual
I think the only people who make a connection between metrosexual and gay are those kinds of people that don't really understand fashion or can't afford to dress well. There's no need for you to defend what you see in GQ as not being metrosexual.
I invite you to post a link to a picture of something that you think is metrosexual but would not be seen in GQ.