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21. How female corpses became a fashion trend
Sat May 17, 2014, 04:55 AM
May 2014

Last edited Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:51 AM - Edit history (2)

Excellent ladies acted like dead bodies are a publicizing crusade staple, including the new Marc Jacobs shoot featuring Miley Cyrus. Why does design fetishes the female body? For once its not the picture of Miley Cyrus herself that is disputable. It's the lady lying beside her. In another promoting battle for Marc Jacobs, Miley and two female models posture on a moonlit shore, Miley sitting up, gazing angrily into the center separation, a lady remaining behind her, while an alternate lies on the sand. This model isn't leaning back joyfully, or nestled into; she is level on her back, hair halfway blanket her face, with the firm, blind aura of a body in the funeral home. A delightfully dressed one, obviously.

This advertisement crusade was discharged a day after the most recent spread of US magazine Entertainment Weekly, which indicates the two stars of approaching film Gone Girl lying on a gurney. Ben Af fleck is completely dressed and alarm, twisted un adroitly around Rosamund Pike, who is in a bra and slip, pale, wide-peered toward with shock, truly dead. A label is tied deliberately around her toe.


Do individuals really need these pictures? Do they need brutality against ladies to be sexualized? There are some solid signs that they don't, from all the ladies who stand in opposition to these pictures (Vice magazine wound up apologizing and expelling their design spread from the web subsequently), to the news thing, distributed a week ago, which indicated that movies that pass the Bechdel test – which offer no less than two female characters, who have a discussion, about an option that is other than a man –outperform their partners in the cinema world. A year ago, of the 50 most elevated accumulating movies in the US, those that passed the Bechdel test earned $176m in the cinema world, while those that didn't arrived at the midpoint of $116m.
Still, there's a reason these pictures multiply. On the off chance that the sexualized generalization of a lady in our society is aloof and defenseless, the promoting business has worked out that, taken to its legitimate decision, there is nothing more charming than a dead you.
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/jan/09/female-corpses-fashion-trend-marc-jacobs-miley-cyrus

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Talk about creepy BainsBane Jan 2014 #1
There is a long history of the idealisation of dead women intaglio Jan 2014 #2
How peculiar libodem Jan 2014 #3
Creepy is a mild description. Very shocking. I thought this stuff was over, once again DU has.... marble falls Jan 2014 #4
The fashion industry is worse than porn in terms of misogyny, imo. geek tragedy Jan 2014 #5
I agree BainsBane Jan 2014 #6
I disagree, strongly. redqueen Jan 2014 #13
Truthfully, I don't really know what constitutes mainstream porn BainsBane Jan 2014 #14
Yeah, I agree the starved waif look is fucked up, unquestionably. redqueen Jan 2014 #17
to be clear, my comment was not offered as any kind of defense of porn. geek tragedy Jan 2014 #16
And, I really hate it about the fashion industry because I truly do love Haute Couture Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #7
fashion celebrates artistry and imagination. Unfortunately, it views women as the canvass upon geek tragedy Jan 2014 #8
I know all this. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #9
it's dawning on some of them that women of all kinds of shapes are geek tragedy Jan 2014 #10
Yes, our voice is growing louder Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #11
Best to develop your own funky style ismnotwasm Jan 2014 #12
My perspective on this is completely different. redqueen Jan 2014 #15
Fashion itself is not misogynistic BainsBane Jan 2014 #18
It also isn't monolithic. The use of models who appear to be dead or beaten is not widespread. redqueen Jan 2014 #19
Apples and oranges ismnotwasm Jan 2014 #20
I remember watching an episode of "The Day Before", where they had to work through the nights jakeXT May 2014 #22
Yes, I'm fascinated by the process of producing it Warpy May 2014 #26
How female corpses became a fashion trend oliviajames May 2014 #21
Thank you for posting this here. redqueen May 2014 #23
Welcome to du. Please edit this to 3-4 paragraphs per copyright rule. Thank you. uppityperson May 2014 #24
It's been going on a long time intaglio May 2014 #25
Annie annie are you ok? ismnotwasm May 2014 #27
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