Michael Muncie featured in MANDATE, September 1978.
Michael Muncie
A popular face around New York City’s Greenwich Village belongs to handsome Michael Muncie, a personable young man whose physical appeal by no means stops with what’s above the neck. A quick glance at the way he stretches that tee shirt to new and provocative limits explains exactly what we mean, and as you flip through this pictorial lensed exclusively for Mandate by Roy Blakey, we think you’ll agree that the tee shirt isn’t the only thing Michael manages to fill out quite nicely. A native of Arlington, Massachusetts, Michael lived both there and in Boston before deciding three and a half years ago that he wanted to try New York. “I just wanted a change. New people. New faces.
A new environment of sorts.” His first job in the Big Apple was with Pauline Trigere, one of the legendary forces in haute couture for ladies. Michael has remained with La Trigere’s savvy enterprise since he came to New York, processing garments, tagging for fabric content and style number. He somehow manages (“usually with three hours of sleep a night”) to handle this full-time venture and still include part-time work as a bartender at Ty’s, one of the Village’s perennial favorite gay bars on Christopher Street. Michael told us he’d like to pursue bartending on a full-time basis for three simple reasons: “People, money and fun.” That’s the sort of no-nonsense response you can expect from this no-nonsense New Englander.
Photograph by Roy Blakey
