In February 2007, Italian duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were flaming over the outrage that followed the release of Dolce & Gabbana’s cute little gang rape advert. The “high priests of tart chic” then proclaimed their wide-eyed innocence (with evidence to the contrary) and issued an interesting statement:
The Italian pair, displaying the fashionistas’ lofty contempt for concerns in the real world, said at the time they wanted to create only the theatrical aesthetic of the Napoleonic period. They similarly seem to have failed to understand the message sent by Spanish critics. “Next [time],” the designers joked yesterday, “we’ll mount a publicity campaign showing a naked woman on top of a man.”
Unfortunately, defensive fashion designers seem incapable of letting a joke remain as such (e.g., John Paul Gaultier Doesn’t Get It). Accordingly, Domenico and Stefano have released an S&M theme of the Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 2007-2008 adverts, which feature more scenarios of sexual violence. Oh, but instead of a female held down by a shirtless male while his friends observe with studied nonchalance, these images depict female-on-female and female-on-male domination. That’s, like, so different.
Increasingly NSFW images to follow:
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They’d have to have a whip in their hands to make me wear those f—ing clothes!
Wild clothes, edgy people and kinky situation.. woo-woo? Forget it.. It seems they are too desperate for attention on the staged posing part and no great effort was put into the design and style of their fuggy old clothes..
There’s a restaurant near here, in St. Augustine, where you can’t even get a hamburger without guava and mango. Their ‘blackened’ scallops?…blackened in cinnamon!
They are trying so hard to be cutting edge that it wreaks of desperation. They only stay in business because most of the folks who eat there leave town the next day and don’t return.
It’s one of those places where it’s so bad, you have to go back just to show your friends how bad it really is.
Funny I should have though of that particular restaurant when I saw this ad.
…they wanted to create only the theatrical aesthetic of the Napoleonic period.
Oh, well I can see how…huh? Is that supposed to be Jane Austen in the little leather number?
No, no — I know what it is. They’re re-enacting the scene in Persuasion where Louisa Musgrove playfully jumps off the steps at Lyme, and Capt. Wentworth doesn’t quite catch her. That’s Wentworth bending over her, and Capt. Benwick and Charles Musgrove in the background, along with various hangers-on. I believe Chapter 12 specifically states Louisa was wearing slut sandals, which is what caused the accident.
Now, don’t you all feel foolish.
But were they cute slut sandals?
But were they cute slut sandals?
Thinking to be clever (and more, to be seen being clever), I wrote half a chapter of Persuasion here to answer the question. But that took up a lot of room, and you don’t have a preview function, and I had to impugn poor Louisa’s character, so screw it. You’ll have to settle for knowing that I was really terribly clever.
The answer is yes, by the way.