Ok, I admit it, I have a thing for steamy and controversial campaigns for which 80 percent of our generation would probably start throwing words such as "sexualization of the women's body" at me, the minute they're looking at shots like these.
However, beauty lies in the eye of the observer and so does art. The risqué play between genders, almost over crossing the thin line of too sexual and provocative, but still, remaining class and aesthetic is what makes the editorial so interesting and a form of art.
In the end, campaigns are made to get people to talk, to bring our attention to the brand, the photographer, the model, and so on.
And besides that, what better place than editorials like these to feature a skinny body?
Is there a better way to get male attention than to stick a perfume bottle in the most erotic zones of a woman? There’s no surprise this advertisement was shot by Terry Richardson and ended up being banned in Italy.
Definitely a less controversial shoot by Collier Schorr, but even the intimacy of Selena Forrest and Hiandra Martinez, as well as Freja posing topless, seems too provocative for some people.
However, beauty lies in the eye of the observer and so does art. The risqué play between genders, almost over crossing the thin line of too sexual and provocative, but still, remaining class and aesthetic is what makes the editorial so interesting and a form of art.
In the end, campaigns are made to get people to talk, to bring our attention to the brand, the photographer, the model, and so on.
And besides that, what better place than editorials like these to feature a skinny body?
- Tom Ford 2007 men’s fragrance advertisement
Is there a better way to get male attention than to stick a perfume bottle in the most erotic zones of a woman? There’s no surprise this advertisement was shot by Terry Richardson and ended up being banned in Italy.
- Sisley Spring/Summer 2001 campaign
- Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2017 campaign
Definitely a less controversial shoot by Collier Schorr, but even the intimacy of Selena Forrest and Hiandra Martinez, as well as Freja posing topless, seems too provocative for some people.
