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    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. More »
  • #maghag

    Cameron Gets Into The Groove

    Inspired by Madonna, circa True Blue, Cameron Diaz was shot for V Magazine by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott looking very unlike her usual sunny, bronzed California girl self. The issue hits tomorrow; preview images after the jump. [V Magazine] More »
  • #criticaldistance

    This Recession Will Change Everything (About The Way We Dress)

    Everyone has a theory about what the recession will "mean" for fashion. Wanna hear often correct New York Times critic Cathy Horyn's? Oh yes you do! More »