Cindy Crawford for TSUM Fall 2010

The old gal's still got some life in her.

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Scarlett Johansson for Dolce & Gabbana Makeup

Every woman applies her lipstick as if she's performing fellatio on it. Everyone knows that.

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Dior Fall 2010 Ad Campaign

Closing out the work week on some pretty.

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Bvlgari F/W 2010 Campaign

Kittens for our kittens!


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Hermès F/W 2010 Ad Campaign

So far, our day sucks. Let's look at something pretty!

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Dolce & Gabbana F/W 2010 Campaign

Tell me about it, stud.

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Madonna for Dolce & Gabbana

Be Italian. Again.

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Prada F/W 2010 Campaign

Mad Style.

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Louis Vuitton F/W 2010 Campaign

Fabulous for sale.

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Tom Ford Eyewear Campaign (NSFW)

Don't worry. It's only mildly NSFW and besides it's only a boob.

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Dsquared2 F/W 2010 Campaign (NSFW)

Freaky fab.

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Cristiano Ronaldo's New Armani Ads

This is about as close as this blog is gonna get to World Cup coverage.

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Dolce & Gabbana and Madonna Sunglasses

Oh, what the hell. Let's talk Madge. And for once, we're not gonna criticize.

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Bang by Marc Jacobs

The world's saddest and most public midlife crisis continues unabated.

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Calvin Klein's Spring 2010 Campaign (NSFW)

A little Monday Morning Meat.

Steven Klein - Photographer
David Agbodji - Model
Fabien Baron - Art Director









Believe it or not, we don't find these pictures all that hot. They're striking and he's stunningly beautiful and we're always happy to see a model of color (especially a male, since black men are even more invisible than black women in fashion), but something about this isn't working for us. It's the greasiness. All we can think is "Ohmigod, you are ruining those clothes with all that baby oil!" And we don't think it helped with the posing. Clearly he couldn't move around much without getting oil streaks all over everything and that stiffness comes through. Look at the way his hands are positioned in the clothed shots. Carefully placed so as not to stain the clothing. There's no sensuality to it.

And in typical CK style, it's been slapped up on a billboard just to piss people off and get them talking. That trick's been working for 30 years.


[Photos: models.com]


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Sharon Stone for Paris-Match: NSFW

What? Did you think we weren't going to have an opinion on this?

On the one hand, we're all "You GO, Sharon! You fabulous crazy old whore!" On the other hand, we're all "Kiss the remains of your career goodbye, you plain old crazy whore!" On the other, other hand, we're all "She's 50 and she looks fantastic!" On the other, other, other hand (there's 4 hands between the two of us) we're all "Shyeah! And she paid good money for that bod."

In short, these pictures are a study in contrasts. Said contrasts being the line between daring/fabulous and pathetic/attention-whoring.

What say you, minions?



[Photos: parismatch.com]


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Lanvin F/W 09.10 : Kristen McMenamy

Pretty + Kitty.

42-year-old model (and goddess) Kristen McMenamy for the Lanvin F/W 09.10 ad campaign, photographed by Steven Meisel.

Lanvin Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Yulia Kharlaponova

Lanvin Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Magdalena Frackowiak

Lanvin Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Karlie Kloss

Lanvin Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Anabela Belikova

Gorgeous. We'd say more, but really, what else needs to be said?




[Images: TheFashionSpot/SurrealSeven/Style.com]


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David and Victoria Beckham for Giorgio Armani

Just two tired old whores flogging their wares.

David and Victoria Beckham for Emporio Armani’s Fall 2009 underwear campaign.

Photographed in Milan by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

Don't get us wrong, the pics are fabulous; a fitting tribute to greed, Photoshop, flattering lighting, and eating disorders.

But aren't we all a little tired of these two whores by now?

Can't they just stand in front of a mirror professing their self-love like everyone else?



[Photos:Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott/Giorgio Armani]


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Madonna's New Ad for Louis Vuitton (More Photos)

Since we had Baby Jesus on the blog yesterday, let's check in with the Blessed Mother.

Here she is, photographed by Steven Meisel, in all her glory in the latest ad campaign for LV Fall 2009:

It's like a salute to Photoshop. Everybody knows Madonna doesn't look anything like that, so why go there? We realize this is a cliche, but she really does look like a wax figure. Look at her fingers. They look like they would melt in the sun. Oh, and don't think we didn't notice those vein covers on your hands, missy. There are some things even Photoshop can't fix, apparently.

Look, we get it. Photo manipulation in ad campaigns is just the way it is and a certain level of it is to be expected, but when it's at this level, it's just creepy-looking.

Oh, and here's the dress, which is fine, but those bunny ears you keep pushing are never gonna happen, Miss Jacobs.

Louis Vuitton Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Tanya Dziahileva

And for additional Sunday reading, here's Cathy Horyn's take on Madonna's last go-round in LV at the Met Gala and how it represents the necessary narrowing of choices for the fashionable woman as she gets older, in a piece called "Irony and the Old Lady":

"While I’m still in love with the ironical gesture and its mild but wholly satisfying orneriness and freedom in the face of so much conformity and New Jersey housewife opulence, I can’t pull it off anymore. I mentioned this to a friend, Luca Stoppini, the art director of Italian Vogue. I asked him why it is that fashionable women can’t wear certain things after 50. Luca had the answer right away. “It’s like fighting with the wind,” he said.

Nothing conveys that struggle better than Madonna’s attire last month at the Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum. In addition to wearing a taffeta hair bow that poked up like rabbit ears, she had on a bright blue minidress with a romper hem and a pair of swashbuckler boots that noticeably left a crack of skin showing at the top of her thighs.

Although the outfit was plainly a riff on exuberant Paris fashion — it was designed by a host of the event, Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton — many people took the excessiveness seriously. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that some members of the low-brow media on the steps of the Met didn’t get the joke. But, in any case, they thought that Madonna, who is 50, looked like a nut.

One person who didn’t was Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York, who said last week, “To me, that’s the Madge I fell in love with.” He let out a laugh. “Scandal!”


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Source:
Irony and the Old Lady [NYTimes]
Can Women Over 50 Pull Off Ironic Fashion? [TheCut]


[Photos: Steven Meisel/Style.com]

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