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more about #doutzenkroes Eleanor Ramilly: Wow, photo #2. The Virgin Suicides called, it wants its concept back. #deadmodels more » miss.terious: so, photography is a new art medium, but artists have been in LOVE with depictions of death since cavemen drew on walls. renaissance art is chock ful... more » RisaPlata: All those boots really make me want to be dead! No, wait... All that death really makes me want boots! No, wait... #deadmodels more » abagatelle: #1 is kind of funny, death by roller skating around a mansion is ridiculous enough to not be gruesome. Just about everything else made me squirm thoug... more » Fatwetdog: I guess no one ever told the photographers that at some point every photographer shoots a dead girl in couture and thinks they're a freaking genius fo... more » Caitlin Petrakovitz: I actually enjoy the first two. They're hilarious and awk and funny and intriguing. Why yes, I do have a morbid fascination with death and crime sce... more » Seize: Hmm...I think it's a little hypocritical of us to get our panties in a twist about this, when every third article on Jez is rape this captivity that. ... more » Jack_Burton: # 1 makes me want to strap on some skates and find those stairs. Lunchtime Poll: Seriously, has anyone here ever seen a crime-scene photo and thought... more » voteforme: Generally speaking, feminism isn't always about choice; many women will opt toward the disempowering option if it benefits them on a personal level (w... more » Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter: Wonder if we would feel differently if these were images taken by a woman and sold as "thought-provoking art"? Does the message change when we sell it... more » femme-bot: At least it's more interesting than this. I'd rather be offended than bored. #deadmodels more » sybann: Don't buy them. That's what I do. But then it's easy for me since I think couture is usually ugly and too expensive - not to mention not in my size. ;... more » hortense: Also, writing "high fashion" on the ad itself is the advertising equivalent of proving your classiness by going around telling everyone how classy you... more » vamvaki_poulaki: argh, I might be a little behind on this, but this is part of what annoys me about Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" music video. It flashes the fashionable pic... more » GirlFailer: I admittedly don't know a lot about "high fashion". My idea of fashion is limited to JCrew and Target, but I still feel the need to give my opinion on... more » Penny: I think that violence has kind of a weird, tenuous relationship with sex, and it's fashion's favorite transgression. I find some imagery more shockin... more » hortense: All it says to me is that clothes are more important than human beings, specifically women, which seems to be the theme of the fashion industry, no? ... more » lilbobbytables: I think that these are common/popular, for the same reason that the story of the Black Dahlia is still of such interest (I am not sure if a more appro... more » CurtCole: #8 should have a tag line that reads "Fur Killz." #deadmodels more » andBegorrah: At least with these injured, prostrate bodies, the fashion industry is showing the physical dangers of all that jumping. #deadmodels more » -
#deathinfashion
The Problem With Fashion's Obsession With Death
Why, in so many fashion photographs, do the models look dead? It's a theme that's persisted in magazines as long as I can remember. These ads for the New Zealand boutique Superette are only the tip of the violence-glamorizing iceberg.
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#theseptemberissues
Join Us For Vogue's Smallest September Issue Ever!
It's back to the futureindeterminate past this season at Vogue. The page-count is vintage 1991, the styling is vintage 40s, but the direct inspiration for most of the fashion spreads is...somewhat more recent. Let's trace the anxiety of influence! More » -
#ragtrade
Sophie Dahl Gets A Cooking Show; Tilda Swinton To Be Face of Pringle
- Model turned cookbook author Sophie Dahl is getting her own cooking show on BBC 2. Dahl says her show will cover on the "emotional" side of food. "It's cooking with an anecdotal thread, irreverent, unpredictable and not without flaw." [Sun]
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#modelbehaviors
The 5 Model Boyfriends You Meet At Castings
Oh, the incredible, never-ending weirdness of the dudes you get to date when you have to respond to the "What do you do?" question with "Uh...I'm a model." Fear not, Vogue is on the case!
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#ragtrade
Karl Relaxes His "Fatty" Fatwa, Chills On His Stoop With Style Critic
- Is former overweight person and current size-o-phobe Karl Lagerfeld changing his Hedi Slimane stripes? Beth Ditto, who in addition to being very talented, weighs somewhat more than 100 lbs, is playing a Fendi party. [FWD]
