In typical naive, vainglorious, arrogance masquerading as pseudo-philosophical and oh-so-artful interpretation, Vogue Italia have conceived and executed the most hideous and downright sick glamorisation of suffering in, Oil and Water, their Stephen Meisel shoot parodying (for yes, that's what it's doing) the recent BP Gulf oil spill disaster. Like some wretched, dying bedraggled bird, Kristen McMenamy lies twisted in black nets, spewing filthy feathers and awaiting rescue.

Cue pitiful justification from features editor, Carlo Ducci: "We can't be silent in this kind of situation and why shouldn't our interpretation be artistic?" Because people, animals and the coastline are DYING you fucktard. The highly toxic dispersal chemical, Corexit is being sucked up in the atmosphere causing poison rain to virtually destroy the Gulf and its surrounding areas. But don't let a little thing like that get in the way of expropriating the catastrophe.

There is nothing profound, nor clever about hijacking a tragedy of epic human and environmental proportions - the result of which is for your own shallow, ends. "We can't be silent"? Just how in the hell do you think a gratuitous shoot such is this is helping?? Without getting all Keats on your ass, yes truth is often beauty, but please, let's not kid ourselves there is anything remotely earnest nor thought provoking about this affair, other than fashion's self-serving conceitedness that it is somehow offering some meaningful dialogue between distress and beauty - no matter how pretty the images are.

Posted on August 11, 2010 at 12:25:15 by The Real Runway