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5 September 2012

GQ’s men of the year covers – spot the odd one out

"One of these things is not like the others."

By Alex Hern

GQ has done a special series of five covers for their “Men of the Year” awards. See if you can spot the odd one out:

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Hat tip to The Times‘ Kat Brown for the spot.

UPDATE 07/0972012 10:30

It just gets worse. Check out the striking similarity between Lana Del Rey’s “woman of the year” cover pose and the above image, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, comes from a 1970s porn poster. Shame on you, GQ.

Fantagraphics are shortly to put out a coffee table book of posters like this – more details here.

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