CALIFORNIA DREAM MEN

CROTCH EDITOR IN CHIEF FRANK STRACHAN AND PHOTOGRAPHER RAMON CHRISTIAN TOOK A ROAD TRIP OF THE GOLDEN STATE AND ITS GUYS

by daniel reynolds

The special California edition of Crotch has Sam Smith to thank for its existence. Frank Strachan, the magazine’s editor in chief, is a London-based stylist and creative director who was touring with the “Unholy” singer through the West Coast last year when inspiration struck. (Others among Strachan’s creative collaborators include Kylie Minogue and the Pet Shop Boys.) While on tour, Strachan contacted the photographer and Crotch collaborator Ramon Christian, arranging for him to follow Smith’s bus from San Francisco to Los Angeles — with stops in Big Bear and San Diego — and take pictures of beautiful men along the way. It was a homecoming in a sense. Crotch, which published 10 issues before this special, was born in L.A. several years ago as a men’s underwear and swimwear magazine celebrating…

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