thenewinquiry: 8. Though the editorial was not explicitly linked to Occupy,W magazine (frequently cited as the primary fashion publication of the über-wealthy) published a front-cover November 2011 collaboration with ‘China’s Most Wanted’ Ai Weiwei. The photos consisted of staged theatrics of models getting arrested, handcuffed, interrogated, and in one particularly eroticized shower scene, fully strip-searched. Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)

thenewinquiry:

8. Though the editorial was not explicitly linked to Occupy,W magazine (frequently cited as the primary fashion publication of the über-wealthy) published a front-cover November 2011 collaboration with ‘China’s Most Wanted’ Ai Weiwei. The photos consisted of staged theatrics of models getting arrested, handcuffed, interrogated, and in one particularly eroticized shower scene, fully strip-searched.

Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)

Jun. 15 2012
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