Publish date. 10-08-2010   Number of images. 4 Category. Fashion

Vogue Italia's oil-spill fashion shoot: slick or crude?

The August edition of Vogue Italia has 24 pages dedicated to a shoot featuring Kristen McMenamy, but it's not her silver hair that's causing controversy. ...

Vogue Italia's oil-spill photoshoot, featuring photographs by Steven Meisel. Photograph: Steven Meisel/Vogue Italia The August edition of Vogue Italia has 24 pages dedicated to a shoot

Full View  Vogue Italia's oil-spill photoshoot, featuring photographs by Steven Meisel. Photograph: Steven Meisel/Vogue Italia The August edition of Vogue Italia has 24 pages dedicated to a shoot featuring Kristen McMenamy, but it's not her silver hair that's causing controversy. The photographs, by Steven Meisel, draw inspiration from the recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill: McMenamy drifts, Ophelia-like, in a slick, is washed up on a beach or chokes against rocks, and wears black dresses adorned with feathers and netting....

We're big believers in the power of an image to convey the drama, sadness, and gravity of world events. In the case of the BP oil spill, that power was never more apparent, both in the photographs th

Full View  We're big believers in the power of an image to convey the drama, sadness, and gravity of world events. In the case of the BP oil spill, that power was never more apparent, both in the photographs that captured the devastation and in the photographs that were forbidden from being taken.  The latest photos causing a stir aren't photojournalism but a fashion spread in Vogue Italia, titled "Water & Oil....

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That's not seaweed.Photo: Courtesy of Margaret Nowak Dobos/Vogue That piece of seaweed draped around Kristen McMenamy's neck as she does her best dead-bird imp

Full View  That's not seaweed.Photo: Courtesy of Margaret Nowak Dobos/Vogue That piece of seaweed draped around Kristen McMenamy's neck as she does her best dead-bird impression on the cover of August's Italian Vogue isn't really seaweed, of course: It's a necklace. But it's not just any necklace — it's a piece fashioned from recycled inner tubes sourced from the Gulf Coast....


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