Fantasy Kits: Steven Meisel's State of Emergency
By k-punk • Sep 25th, 2006 •
Category: fashion, features, Jean Baudrillard, sexual politics, terrorism, William Burroughs
‘Obscene mannequins’. ‘Conceptual deaths’. The eroticisation of violence in the media landscape… the stunning ‘State of Emergency’ spread in the current Vogue Italia seems to come straight out of JG Ballard’s Atrocity Exhibition… A few weeks ago, I asked whether it would be possible ‘for there to be a pornography, sponsored by Dior or Chanel, [...]
