Go ahead, call me Ishmael.I just couldn’t resist taking a hasty ‘fishing’ expedition once word reached me about the pending Fashion Week debut of Dwight Eubanks’ new underwear line.
Eubanks owns the venerable Purple Door Salons in Atlanta and deserves to have his mugshot placed next to the definition of “lavish” in any dictionary. The TV-viewing public knows him best as the chap who virtually hijacked Season 1 of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta” franchise.
“Who is this girl (Sheree) who had a fashion show with no fashions?”
If that’s not Bartlett’s material, what is?
Anyway, Eubanks (left, with Atlanta socialite Tracie Howard) has an ax to grind with the sorry state of men’s underwear. And he reckons he’ll start correcting it with the launch of his new “Tool Box” label on September 14 at the M2 Ultra Lounge in lower Manhattan.
Partial proceeds from the $40-$100 collection, which will include pajamas and smoking jackets at retail outlets to be determined, will benefit AIDS charities.
“I’m going for the kill,” Eubanks said, after being asked how far he’s willing to reach for more than the fame “Real Housewives…” has already afforded him..
He calls “Tool Box” one man’s humble answer to the saggy, baggy jeans trend popularized by urban youth.
“They’re not going to stop wearing their pants that way. So they might as well show (underwear) that looks good.”
And he demurely coughed _ three times, at suggestive two second intervals _ when asked if the underwear brand launch was part of a master plan to land a reality series of his own.
“If that was what this is all about, then it would have to include everything about me: the parties I throw, the circles I travel in, the hair, the makeup, all that. But I wouldn’t rule it out.”
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