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more about #vogueitalia more comments → 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 » -
#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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#blackwhite
Fashion Photographer Steven Klein Has Done Blackface Before
This ten-page Italian Vogue editorial from February, 2006, features two Caucasian models made up to look like black women. The photographer? A certain Steven Klein.
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#ragtrade
Doonan Jumps To Ed Hardy's Defense; Smell Like Kate Moss For Fall
- Barneys' Simon Doonan: "Criticizing Ed Hardy for being cheesy is like saying that Elvis was 'flashy' or that Liberace was 'tacky.' It's a giant case of DUH! Of course it's cheesy! That's the whole point, you doo-doo heads." [NY Observer]
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#maghag
Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
This "Vagaries Of Fashion" spread from Italian Vogue — seen on Sociological Images — is the third "neglectful mom" shoot we've seen from a fashion magazine this year. More » -
#maghag
Italian Vogue Serves Up Fashion, Neat
Sometimes, for a scintillating editorial, you don't need a fancy concept, or references to some old movie. You don't require a "narrative." You just need a good model, a good photographer, and some crazy clothes.
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#maghag
Calvin Klein, TSE, & Originality In Fashion: Not So Black & White
I was skimming a men’s magazine the other day when I paused, mouth agape, on the new TSE campaign.
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