Of course Dolce & Gabbana knows that the depiction of a rape scene will sell clothes—nothing new there. Presumably D&G wagers the benefit of sexual violence & humiliation narratives against the risk of winding up as grist in Jean Kilbourne's mill.
Yet there is a line even ruthless ad men won't cross, and that's televising ads that depict graphically violence against women. (At least, I've never seen a snuff commercial.) That's what distinguishes ANTM's gristly editorial spread from the rest. Substantively, it's just this ad run through the Grindhouse. But ANTM being a television show in which the editorial process is (or purports to be) transparent, you get a live forum in which tastemakers say things like "[Y]ou don't look dead to me. You look like you're dying," and "Death becomes you, young lady."
Young women of the District! Find out for yourself, um, how the sausage gets made at the ANTM auditions on Saturday night.
Posted by Kriston at March 29, 2007 2:17 PMPlease to excuse the linking- but I find this related image interesting.
http://tv.yahoo.com/americas-next-top-model/show/35130/photos/1#goto_1
I don't watch the show, but, good Lord. The text below the image speaks volumes. This individual needed to be sexied up. Presumably, the sucking chest wound is making her hotter. Clearly, she had to fake-die for the camera. Now are we to believe that in her fake death, this model has transcended mortal sexiness? With glazed eyes shining white into the heavens like beacons of truth- she wields her sensuality in death like a blazing scimitar of defeated horniness. Or some crap like that. Necrophilia with skinny zombie-babes? Is caked-on blood red the new black?
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