FASHION ROYALTY MEN

Jet set playboy
Born in Madrid, Spain, in a typical upper middle-class Spanish family, Francisco was the pride of his father and therefore a spoiled young man who could do no wrong. As he grew older, however, Francisco’s keen sense of style, passion for partying, and general lack of interest for the car dealership his father owned led the Leons to start wondering about their son’s aspirations in life. His taste in friends and his disruptive partying habits soon became the talk of the neighborhood, convincing Padre Leon to send sonny abroad to finish school… Just so the hearsay surrounding his “behavior” would die down with his absence, allowing the family business to return to normal.

Forced into exile at a French academy for boys near Paris, Francisco just couldn’t stand the life that had been forced upon him and found himself leaving the dormitories every night to go party in nearby Parisian clubs. That is, until he met Pierre DeVries.

Young DeVries, son of a very powerful European industrialist, had been sent to that school for the exact opposites reasons. Pierre’s parents feared that their son’s bookworm ways would cause him to lead a very sheltered life and prevent him from acquiring the necessary skills he would need to eventually take his father’s place at the head of the company.  However, little did the DeVries family realize how much of a change would result from this big city exile. Pierre was assigned to become Francisco’s roommate at the school, and the pair would soon hit it off in ways no one expected. Pierre actually turned out to be the only positive factor in Francisco’s life, soon convincing him to look at his life and focus his energies into something else than constant partying. Pierre soon became the only person against whom Francisco wasn’t constantly trying to rebel. Under Pierre’s positive influence, Francisco managed to finish school with high honors and earn his business degree, which helped him purchase the building where he eventually opened Club Leon, the first of a string of extremely popular nightclubs that made Leon a millionaire by the age of twenty-seven.

Unfortunately, DeVries’s influence on Leon quickly faded when Francisco’s taste for money and fame surfaced and he met Darius Reid. Pierre’s constant reminders to “think before you act” quickly started to sound like a broken record compared to Reid’s go-getter attitude, and Leon chose to severe the ties. Things wouldn’t stay like this for long, however; and the pair would be reunited in the strangest circumstance after several years of radio silence. While in the middle of a prep session backstage at a special fashion gala that Leon was hosting at Club Libertad (his second club in Paris), a catfight broke out between Missima owner Natalia Fatale and model Vanessa Perrin. Not realizing the other was on the set, the pair of big husky boys rushed to the scene to keep the lioness from scratching out Perrin’s eyes with her nine-inch nails. In an amusing twist, the catfight had broken out after Fatale had accused the make-up artists of foul play:  they had chosen not to use Missima eye shadows since they felt they where far inferior to W’s and had said so without shame right to her face. The resulting name-calling quickly escaladed to a shameful display of misplaced ego. For the first time in years, the two had a good laugh afterwards and putting their principles aside, decided to stay in touch.

Now several years since the infamous incident, the two are seen together more and more often, and rumors abound. Why would a millionaire playboy and a sizzling hot photographer spend so much time together? Are they an item? Should we expect an official coming-out soon? But wait, isn’t Leon going out with that famous model what’s-her-name, or is it what’s-her-name again? Isn’t Devries Véronique Perrin’s sweetheart? It just never stops for Francisco Leon, but he’s used to it by now. He knows that it’s better to let the press and his entourage talk all they want. After all, he still has more money and looks hotter than annyone; and in the end, Francisco will do what Francisco wants, as he is numero uno everywhere he goes.

Best Friend: Darius Reid for everyone who asks, but in secret he’d much rather spend some time with Pierre DeVries. (Pierre keeps Francisco in focus.)
Foe: Vanessa Perrin (The two had a bad fling a while back!)
Love Interest: Too many to say out loud without blushing
Mentor and Personal Guide: Pierre DeVries
Loves: Money and fame
Hates: Most people who tell him what to do

Young and driving enigmatic attitude

Lukas Maverick has quite the little reputation on the streets of London. He’s known as “Gorgeous” for more reasons than one.

Born in Amsterdam, Lukas moved to the UK when he was old enough to have tasted the no-holds-barred culture his native city has to offer. Lukas is well versed in the various arts of physical pleasure and never misses a chance to have fun with someone new. When his family moved to London two years ago, Lukas missed the thrills of his native city and wished he could go back; but that quickly changed when he was head-hunted by Kyori Sato to become the first male on the modeling team of Missima Cosmetics. Lukas doesn’t miss his hometown so much anymore. His taste for mischief and being surrounded by so many cute girls all the time simply took over. For the moment, Lukas is the new and only face of Missima Men, a line of after-shave products that promised to reduce the burning sensation of shaving but has in reality caused more allergic reactions than the Missima chemists care to admit.

Still, Lukas enjoys the attention for now; but his is an unstable persona, and who knows where this young heartthrob will end up next. Will he start hanging out with Pierre and Francisco in Paris? Will he stay put in London? No, no one thinks so. This boy has way too much ambition and wants to take the world by storm!

Best Friend: Whoever’s around right now
Foe: None. (Lukas doesn’t stick around people long enough to make any.)
Love Interest: Hum. Cough. Cough.
Mentor and Personal Guide: Kyori Sato (He views her advice as gold.)
Loves: Pleasure
Hates: When he's not the focus of attention

Top industry mogul with one thing in mind: success!

Born in Paris in very modest surroundings from a Samoan mother and Nigerian father, Darius Reid learned very early in life that, to go straight to the top, “no” was simply not an acceptable answer to any of his demands. Darius showed from a very early age the signs of high intelligence, excelling at pitting people against one another while making himself look like a knight in shining armor.

Quickly tagged as a troublesome fellow (read bully) by the other kids in the neighborhood because of his tricky ways, Darius started surrounding himself with “yes” people. At age sixteen he slowly started promoting small insignificant bands in underground Parisian clubs and constantly fought with club owners who did not take him seriously because of his young age. Following a string of rejections, Darius began doubting his abilities and his future as a top show biz producer; but soon enough, the situation would make a full 360 when Darius met Francisco Leon, and the pair quickly decided to unite as business partners.

Leon himself a very young entrepreneur at the time who had just opened his very first club in a dingy part of town, was looking for obscure yet trendy acts he would be able to afford to get the buzz going about his new place. Fortunately for them both, at the time small acts was all Darius had to offer – that is, until one day, Club Leon featured a very special band from Germany that Reid had discovered by pure luck. The club became the talk of the underground, and soon mainstream club-goers and fashionistas could not get enough of the place. From that point on, they both knew they’d conjured a powerful recipe for success.

Now, several years since Darius Reid and Francisco Leon first ventured into showbiz together, their success enabled them to practically own the Parisian club scene, including the protection rackets that unavoidably go with the lot. Reid now also owns an up-and-coming recording label and is producing concerts all over the world for the likes of Cold Ice, The Stingers (that obscure band from Germany), Ram, and Stereo Junkyard.

More recently, Darius’ life took an unexpected turn when his partner-in-crime introduced him to the women of Missima at a prestigious music industry event. Finally “tamed” for the first time in years, Darius is now the pawn of model Kyori Sato who, for some strange reason, seems to hold an almost mystical bond over the music producer. His infatuation for the famous Japanese model (who is down right rude to him) is a bit puzzling for most in their entourage. Everyone says, “Now look who just can’t say no!”

Best Friend: Francisco Leon
Foe: Darius is naturally very suspicious, so everyone is a potential foe.
Love Interest: Kyori Sato
Mentor and Personal Guide: Darius is a self-made man.
Loves: Making mischief
Hates: When life slows down

Style and wisdom in one package

Born in the South of France, Pierre DeVries had a most promising future all traced out for him. Old money, young aristocrat and son of Jacques DeVries, viscount and owner of one of Europe’s largest wineries – all Pierre would have had to do is stay on track, and the world would have belonged to him one day. But little Pierre has aspirations of his own. Although very athletic, Pierre was never into the typical “rich jock” ego trip most of the other boys in his school with had fallen into. Pierre was far more interested in his art books, photography equipment, and art lectures. This led him to become an outcast of his own; but because of his physical attributes, no bully in school dared take a shot at him because they knew he could far surpass them at any physical competition if he wanted to. Pierre’s father, however, wasn’t impressed with the way his son kept busy in his down time and would have much preferred to see him hanging out with the boys and causing the usual mischief good society teenage boys usually get themselves into.

Thinking he was doing a good thing for his son, DeVries Senior decided to send Pierre to a boys-only boarding school near Paris that had a reputation for being very severe and almost militaristic. Little did he know that the roommate the school would assign to stay with their son would have such an undeniable influence on Pierre’s life. Francisco Leon was a young troubled teen from Madrid who had nothing else in mind than fashion and partying. After Leon purposely ignored DeVries and his geeky ways for a few weeks, things started changing as they started spending more and more time together. For some reason, even with the fact that they didn’t speak each other’s language and had to converse in very bad French in order to understand each other, a “brother’s-in-arm” type of friendship soon took off. The two ended up helping each other in ways that no one expected. Some of Leon’s fashion sense rubbed off on DeVries, who had never paid much attention to the way he dressed before… and Pierre taught Francisco that a sound mind resided in a sound body, forcing an exercise routine on him that soon led the two boys to become ultra-buff and the envy of everyone present anywhere they went – girls and boys included. Everyone envied their friendship; and, through Pierre’s tutoring, Francisco managed to calm down a little and stay focused on his studies. But Pierre DeVries’s friendship with Francisco soon became an obsession, and his constant intervention drove Francisco away from him after a rather explosive fight in a bar one night.

Pursuing his majors in art and photography at another school on the other side of town to escape his former friend and set his life on track again, Pierre soon graduated with high honors; and various talent scouts quickly noticed some of his work across the city. Quickly becoming the talk of town, Pierre sparked the interest of a childhood friend: Monaco heiress and powerful W Cosmetic CEO Véronique Perrin, who invited him on board as her official photographer and publicity art director. This association made Pierre’s talents even more desirable to other companies, and job offers quickly started pouring in, sometimes for more money than Perrin was paying him. But again, his sense of loyalty would kick in, and his devotion to Véronique soon sparked a fling that is still unresolved to this day.

Much to his surprise, Pierre was reunited with college chum Francisco Leon the night he was supposed to be covering young Vanessa Perrin’s first modeling assignment in a downtown Paris club. Not knowing Francisco owned the place and having heard rather unsavory rumors about the club, Pierre had volunteered to act as chaperon, which turned out to be one his best decisions yet. When a rather disgraceful catfight broke out between then Missima owner Natalia Fatale and top Model Vanessa Perrin over some trivial comment, the boys rushed on the scene and were a bit shocked to be reunited this way. Laughing their heads off at Fatale and Perrin, the two met later to reminisce and consequently rekindled their friendship.

Since then their friendship has escalated, much to the despair of Véronique Perrin, who thought she had something going on with Pierre and is still very hopeful that one day she will be the one to steal his heart. Pierre remains close to Véronique, but he is back at his old habits trying to keep Francisco out of trouble.

Best Friend: Véronique Perrin (but really Francisco Leon)
Foe: Natalia Fatalé (He thinks she is ridiculous.)
Love Interest: Wants to keep that one private; “career first,” he tells everyone.
Mentor and Personal Guide: Véronique's mother, Jerrica Perrin
Loves: Truth and beauty
Hates: Liars and deception

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