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Queens of the Stone Age

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I never asked to see Josh Homme’s toes, but then the Queens of the Stone Age frontman sauntered down my timeline in a pinstripe suit and a pair of flip-flops and here we are.

The “Ginger Elvis” turned heads with his runway debut at Ann Demeulemeester’s Paris Fashion Week show recently, with Stereogram calling him a “silver fox”—again, not something I expected to see.…