i don't mind edgy pictures

 really i don't. but these are beyond distasteful. when i mention women are MORE than body parts or MORE than hangers for clothing i get called all sorts of things. i guess i'm not articulate enough. it's NOT cool to set women up as some slashers or necrophiliacs fantasy. it's just NOT. then we have THESE tasteless pictures................

Dead-Looking Women, High Fashion, Blah Blah Blah (Trigger Warning)

by lisa,

 

Ok, I get it. I really get it that “fashion” has to be “edgy” and so they sometimes “cross the line” in order to be “cutting edge.”  See all those quotation marks?  I get it.  I so obviously get it!

So when Vogue Italia decided to do a BP oil spill-themed fashion shoot, I was like “Yeah, of course! Like, that’s so, like, fashion!”  I mean, what better way to draw attention to tragedy and disaster?  I see nothing at all ironic about highlighting the destruction of working-class people’s livelihoods with obscenely expensive clothes designed primarily to enhance the status of elite fashion designers and the rich people who can wear them.....................