It’s Time to Stop Beautifying Violence Against Women for Fashion

[theHandpuppet]

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Several photos of the ads accompany this article. I found the Vogue Italia ad to be the most horrifying.

TIME
It’s Time to Stop Beautifying Violence Against Women for Fashion
Laura Stampler @LauraStampler
Aug. 8, 2014     

(short excerpt)
In 2007, Dolce & Gabbana released this ad that was eventually banned from Italian publications. (Although Stefano Gabbana contended it wasn’t gang rape but rather “an erotic dream, a sexual game.”)

Calvin Klein came out with the following ad, which was banned in Australia in 2010.

Vogue Italia did an entire spread on domestic violence in April, featuring women cowering over the small text identifying the Marc Jacobs she is wearing.

According to the World Health Organization, 35% of women worldwide have experienced partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. It is both one of the most intimate crimes and one of the most universal crimes because of the number of women it affects in every country. But just because a crime is familiar, does not mean that presenting it in the glossy pages of a magazine — finding sexy elements in a sexually violent act — is an appropriate medium for a public service announcement....

MORE at http://time.com/3093670/indias-gang-rape-plague-violence-against-women-for-fashion/

[sufrommich]

1. Disgusting.The fashion industry is horribly toxic

for women.

[Scootaloo]

2. What the fucking what?

Several photos of the ads accompany this article. I found the Vogue Italia ad to be the most horrifying.

No shit. Now hey, I've seen plenty of model shoots like this, and whatever, it's supposed to be like a still image version of a horror movie, to showcase photography and lighting skills, makeup and hair artists, etc.

But that belongs in a photographer / model / artist's portfolio, or a magazine centered on the model or photography industry itself.

Placing it in a glamour magazine, that's fucking weird and very certainly does carry the implication that the scenario is "glamorous."

I suppose one could argue it's a consequence of how incestuous and isolated these magazines are - out of touch with everything except their own inner circles. But really, one would think that an editor would go "yeah, that's fucking weird, what's our second option for this page spread?"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. which was first

what feeds off what.

mainstream photographs depicting porn pushing porn to go farther

or was the porn already there so mainstream feels vindicated to make it fashionable

and around we go.

on a carousel.

[cui bono]

5. I saw a billboard on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles a few weeks ago

that was a picture of a woman, close up of her face about 3/4 angle, holding something like a glass milk bottle up with her head back, as if to be drinking but the bottle was away from her face. On her face were splashes of milk/cream, resembling, well you know what. I looked and looked for a brand name and didn't see one. I assume it was a milk/cream company? I don't see how that billboard makes anyone want to consume something like that though, so really, it could have been something entirely different.

What was very clear was what they were depicting with that and I was shocked to see something so graphic up on a billboard. Who green lighted that marketing idea???

And how is that okay in anyone's professional mind to put that out there like that?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. !

Must have been the Milk Industry. Where all brands are together promoting milk/dairy products.

I want to bet that the final say for that BillBoard was a Man ... any takers?

[theHandpuppet]

4. A message from sea...

i keep hitting recommend over and over and over again.
for this

"It’s Time to Stop Beautifying Violence Against Women"

fuck for fashion. just fuckin.... "It’s Time to Stop Beautifying Violence Against Women"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. yep. that is sea.

[redqueen]

6. K&R

Time to stop tolerating the idea that it is sexy and arousing, too.