In 2000, Max Guazzani wanted to bring more women to the stadium to see his Stade France team play near Paris. His very creative and controversial solution was to have members of the team pose nude for a fundraising calendar. The next year, "Dieux du Stade" ["Gods of the Stadium"] Calendar 2001 debuted! It was a brilliant marketing concept and the calendar quickly became a hot collectible when the images of young, humpy footballers in the nude raced at record speed around the internet(s).
Now an annual tradition, 2008's Dieux du Stade Calendar is the 8th outing for Max and his collaborators. This year, they chose fashion and celeb photographer Steven Klein to shoot the calendar and "Making of the Calendar..." DVD, and the results are astounding! The Dieux du Stade calendar is now available on Amazon.com
Down Under (that's Australia for the unititated), commercial photographer, Pedro Virgil has been producing "nude rugby" calendars for years featuring Australia's hottest footballers. For 2008, Virgil and his posse have produced an exquisite survey of young male athletes who got NAKED FOR A CAUSE.
There are other nude rugby calendars from universities around the world and even a calendar featuring memebers of San Francisco's gay rugby league, The Fog. But none match the imagery and elaborate production of the Dieux du Stade and Naked for a Cause 2008 calendars. Each measures 14x 18" and features art-book-quality printing. Each also weighs about 2 pounds. Hefty, hunky and gorgeous they are!
Both calendars have been imported to the US (the first time for Naked for a Cause) and are available to purchase on Amazon.com
Because pictures of gorgeous nude athletes never grow old, The Nude Rugby Calendars 2008 are What's Beautiful #012.
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