If Frida Kahlo was a Victorian Goth, Flamenco-dancing gypsy, who lived in a surreal painting in India, this is what she would wear.
Mr. Meisel – just when I was starting to yawn, you took me to a dreamy state.
I know these might be disturbing to some – and portray images of women as blah, blah, blah… To me, they are like paintings…surreal, fantastical paintings – and they become a visual study of form and space.
Meisel’s shoot was inspired by Granger, but I saw many mixed metaphors here.
Like Frankenstein’s monster, this too, is a piecing together of odd parts for a mad result, with the modern, monstrous mode being concocted with digital tools.
I don’t take each photograph in a magazine literally. Vogue Italia has always crossed a line – but I think they do so to provoke, to evoke, to start conversations – and to present fashion as art form.
The debate goes on…
