Abstract
‘An urban male with a strong esthetical sense who spends a large amount of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.' Like soccer star David Beckham, who has been known to paint his fingernails, the metro-sexual are not afraid to embrace their feminine side anymore.
Mark Simpson invented this term in 1994, and it drifted slowly from one media source to another throughout the rest of the 1990s and early 2000s. Then Simpson wrote another article about metrosexuals in the online magazine Salon.com on July 22, 2002, and the term took off. Since then, it has been picked up by thousands of media outlets, has made numerous TV appearances, has produced at least a couple of books, and has been used in untold numbers of cocktail party conversations.
