Torture Couture
Designer John Galliano is to runways as trolls are to message boards, but I don't recall ever having seen a more willfully provocative (and surely, to some, offensive) collection from the dude as his Fall 2008 Men's series, shown here. Sure to be a hit at Gitmo, X-Ray and other black sites with names we'll never know. No, Dorothy: those are not nightclubs. Link. Photos thumbnailed here were shot by Marcio Madeira for men.style.com. (Thanks, Susannah Breslin)
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A knee-length prison smock would certainly break me.
I'd rock it.
gruesome, mangled scratches included.
"thumbnailed"? Is that a newly approved inhanced interrogation technique?
I was wondering when something like this would crop up. Camo has been cool for too long for someone not to get more specific in exploring and experimenting with mil-chic.
I'm sure banana hammocks will bring something to the public dialo...oh crap Heath Ledger is dead!
High fashion designer will not be first against the wall when the revolution comes, but they will most assuredly be like third or fourth. Although if this guy were nearby I don't think I could resist a swift rabbit punch.
Remember the title of Galliano's very first collection? It was "Afghanistan repudiates Western ideals." But that was long before 9/11...
My first reaction - "oh brother!"
Gaaaaah! Fashion as in Haute Coutre has always been wacky but this, this is crap for crap sake. Stupid Muppet!
Is Allan Moore getting a cut of this, or are they just ripping off the "Hangman" character from Watchmen on their own initiative?
If the models were Dick and Bush and they were being waterboarded and mauled by dogs on the runway then you would have something of value.
Um, I like most of it.
Bah, no one actually wears anything that goes down those runways. I can barely think of anything more vestigial to anything of human value than the world of high fashion.
well..if you "cut off " the heads, the clothes are pretty normal..some of them are quite wearable. at least I wouldn't mind seeing my male-friends in them
okay..some clothse..and maybe not in these combinations :))) sorry :))
Thank god for adblock and the ability to adblock a specific image.
gitmo couture....how very.
I think this is really nifty. Yes, probably no one will wear that anywhere but on the runway, but that's not the point. No one will decorate their house with the Duchamp toilet or dance to most modern music. We seem to understand that art in these mediums can't be judged on their practical worth, but exists for its own sake. Why should it be any different for high fashion, which is another art form, one that glamorizes the human form and in this case clearly makes an indictment of the human culture around it.
Well stated, Bach.
I might also add that Galliano has always been on the very edge and has spawned a host of imitators.