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Controversy+Exclusivity=Success?
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“I find people better looking without clothes than with clothes. You can go to a gym and go to a steam room and you see someone and think, He's really handsome. Then he puts on his clothes. Some weird pants. A thumb ring. Some weird socks. And it's gone!” -Tom Ford, Vanity Fair, March 2006
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Objectification of Women? Do these women appear to be in positions of power or submission? Is nudity necessarily degrading?
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F/W 2009 F/W 2012 Campaign
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“I’m an equal-opportunity objectifier …I’m sorry, I don’t understand why our culture both worships and objectifies beauty, and then slams those of us who participate in it. Because I make that detachment, I’m capable of objectifying a beautiful woman, but that doesn’t demean her in any way. She’s beautiful because she’s a creature who exists physically, in the physical world, who happens to be in a moment of prime.” -Tom Ford, Interview Magazine 2011 "With a more natural relationship to nudity, we might also be freed up to find each other a lot more fascinating. There's an equality to being naked ; the fewer clothes and accessories a person wears the less you judge them, and the more you notice their truest traits, like their eyes or their charisma, their great hands or their one-of-a-kind hair or, most importantly, their personality and character. As much as I love clothing, it gives us one more layer to hide behind.” -Tom Ford, New York Magazine 2008
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"As much as I've tried, it has been consistently harder to get images of nude men onto magazine pages and billboards than it has nude women. In a society where images of brutal violence are consumed during breakfast, the male nude is one of our last taboos. There's a double standard at play here: magazines that are happy to fund ads featuring an artfully lit female nude will balk at an image of her male counterpart.” -Tom Ford, New York Magazine 2008 " Women have long been objectified in our society ; images of beautiful female forms are everywhere. Go to a dinner party and women are wearing tiny dresses, exposing their legs and baring their toes in high- heeled sandals. They're basically naked, with a little bit of draping over their body. Think of how tough it must be to be a woman in our culture. Women are constantly judged by their bodies and the size of their breasts.” -Tom Ford, New York Magazine 2008
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Racist? Erykah Badu African-American Jon Kortajarena Spanish Beyoncé Knowles African-American You Decide. http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=LQAS7mBadkE
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Conclusion Controversial? Admittedly so. Objectification? Equal objectivity. Racist? Not for lack of minority models. Offensive? Relative. Banned? Not yet. What are your thoughts?
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