Basically, has anyone seen this?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_MindBodyResource/10-year-models-grown-high-fashion-high-risk/story?id=14221160
Does it make me a wishy-washy, hand-wringing liberal to express my dismay and borderline disgust at this photo shoot, which appeared in the Tom Ford-edited January issue of French Vogue? I hope not. I have to agree with Chloe Angyal - this isn't 'art' it's just plain creepy. And even if they were just trying to make some sort of edgy, provocative, 'subversive', thought-provoking statement about the sexualisation and fetishization of young girls in the fashion industry, I really don't think sexualising and fetishizing a 10 year old girl is the way to go, no matter how up for it she and her mother seem to be (and by the way, said mother has since defended the shoot, saying, "The only thing that shocks me about the photo is the necklace that she's wearing, which is worth 3 million Euros." Fantastic.).
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_MindBodyResource/10-year-models-grown-high-fashion-high-risk/story?id=14221160
Does it make me a wishy-washy, hand-wringing liberal to express my dismay and borderline disgust at this photo shoot, which appeared in the Tom Ford-edited January issue of French Vogue? I hope not. I have to agree with Chloe Angyal - this isn't 'art' it's just plain creepy. And even if they were just trying to make some sort of edgy, provocative, 'subversive', thought-provoking statement about the sexualisation and fetishization of young girls in the fashion industry, I really don't think sexualising and fetishizing a 10 year old girl is the way to go, no matter how up for it she and her mother seem to be (and by the way, said mother has since defended the shoot, saying, "The only thing that shocks me about the photo is the necklace that she's wearing, which is worth 3 million Euros." Fantastic.).
Look at the photos. Look at them. Tell me you don't want to pour bleach into your eyes, especially if, like me, your first reaction was something along the lines of "Wow, she's hot! Oh wait, she's TEN?! Shit. Can I just mention that I am not a paedophile?"
Aaaarrrrrgh!
Why can't we have pictures of young girls reading Enid Blyton books and climbing trees and playing badminton in the garden and drinking lemonade in magazines, instead of sultry come-hither stares, parted lips and high heels?? It pains me to think that a photoshoot of this nature might now actually be a shocking, ground-breaking, game-changer. In my opinion, the only vaguely come-hither look a 10 year old should be giving, if any, is to a 99 Flake draped seductively in raspberry sauce on a hot summer day. I feel like how the hobbits must've felt as they traipsed through Middle-Earth through the clouds of smoke and the senseless killings. Is there no GOOD and INNOCENCE left in the world, Mr Frodo?? Must... look at... pictures of Hobbiton.
Ahh, that's better. When Sam was stuck on a rock with Frodo as the world was collapsing into ash and flames all around them, he wasn't thinking of 10 year old Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau draped seductively on a tiger skin in 6 inch leopard print stilettos, he was thinking of (a significantly older) Rosie Cotton dancing, with ribbons in her hair.
Sometimes I wish I were a Hobbit.
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