What is going on here? Is Australian Vogue the piercings/fun police? Are they uncomfortable presenting real women and their real flaws and delicate details? Or is this simply their cleverest strategy yet to get us to buy their magazine?
Our mate Patty Huntington of Frockwriter has brought this nipple-piercing photoshop job to our attention. Two shots have come to light from Vogue's next issue - the first of Abbey Lee Kershaw and Catherine McNeil's pierced naked nipples, the second identical shot has no visible piercings.
I must say, nothing short of Abbey and Catherine’s nipples would get me to hand over my $6 again. Last month I made the error of wasting my hard-earned on a copy because Myf was on the cover wearing Romance Was Born. I happen to personally adore both. The cover also promised a great deal of information on my favourite topic – our upcoming local designers.
The cover – oh, and a shoot bought from an international Vogue source – turned out to be the best part. I should have held on to my coin and bought two litres of full fat soy milk instead – it would have been more fulfilling.
The Romance Was Born shoot in that edition of Vogue was possibly the most uninspired use of their mindboggling clothes anyone could have conjured. The label’s show at RAFW earlier this year was extraordinarily theatrical it brought editors to tears.
Shooting that collection against a plain backdrop even nearly brought me to tears for the sheer wasted opportunity. Even the lovely Myf could not help the cause.
Perhaps more than one person have had a got at them for the high levels of blandness in this shoot, because they’ve included plenty of RWB pieces, in this nude shoot – like the lace pants below.
While Vogue ain’t
Suicide Girls, you’d think they could set the example they’re meant to. They’re the magazine that girls and women everywhere want to look up to, to be inspired by and to learn from. It’s pretty difficult to aspire to something that says even the most beautiful women in the world are inadequate, so we have to digitally manipluate them. Afterall, isn’t all that photoshopping of women’s undesirable bits the domain of
Nikki Webster shoots and porn mags?
More shots from the shoot follow.
