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Fantasy Kits: Steven Meisel’s State of Emergency

By k-punk • Sep 25th, 2006 •

Category: Jean Baudrillard, William Burroughs, fashion, features, sexual politics, terrorism

‘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…
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