Girl, You So Well Spoken!

the new tough's issue #3 drops on march 9th... til then, have fun with these polaroids! [in case you need a refresher, check out my previous post about miss robin black and her magazine, which i shot for earlier this month.]

q: what do you get when you mash together robin black: magazine editor/photographer and makeup artist extraordinaire, brett bailey: haute couture [cyber-]stylist, and oscar lima: designer du jour?

a: an unending well of amazingness. 

step 2? throw me into that mix. then add some outrageous metal headpieces, dresses fit for the haus of gaga (no, really, oscar is her costume designer), and makeup that would make miss jones herself swear she'd seen that face before... now, you've got the cover of the new tough's issue #3...!

you see, on super bowl sunday, instead of toting chips & dip to someone's house for a day of beer and football, i was picked up at approximately 1:15pm by a self-described "asian girl with tattoos". gorgeous, spunky, and carrying bags of health food snacks (well, if you want to call the vegan chocolate chip cookies we annihilated "healthy"...), she wore a simple chain around her neck that said "ms black"-- a complete contradiction as this girl is anything but simple...

hours later, i headed to work with a plastic baggy full of polaroids, feeling higher than a skid row crackhead. we had just made magic. if this is how it starts (my dream, that is)-- with robin and oscar and brett and grace jones makeup and 4 hours of listening to "warm leatherette" and "nightclubbing" whilst growling at the camera... if this is how it starts then i look forward to the climb...

the issue is coming soon. have fun with these crazy polaroids robin snapped for fun in the meantime! oh, and don't forget to check out issues #1 and #2 of the new tough online!

pssssst! check out this article on robin & the new tough in dazed digital!

body and size issues seem to be a trending topic in the editorial world these days. i, for one, am not complaining. and no, not because i enjoy looking at naked women. i enjoy the fact that america seems to be embracing and celebrating the female body as art. there is nothing perverse, deviant, or pornographic about these editorials. taking your clothes off is sexy, it's beautiful, it's art. 

besides, if you looked as good as naomi campbell at 39, you'd deserve to be celebrated too, non?

I think men and women alike can agree: viva la body issue! [thank you, mert & marcus!]

[spotted over at fashion gone rogue]

spotted: a vice magazine editorial that gives you way more than just an eyeful of fashion...

i have to wonder who the target audience of this editorial is. while it may not be displeasing to the female eye, i'm sure that heterosexual male readers could have gone without seeing impeccably dressed male models with boners. or maybe that was the whole angle: let's make them so uncomfortable that they will focus intently on the sartorial decisions of the shoot's stylist in an effort to avoid the eye-catching crotch area of the model at all costs...?

i also have to wonder: are those real erections?? i need answers, vice! 

oh, and in case you were wondering, all of the male models are wearing tom ford for men cologne. maybe that is to indicate to us that the models were inspired by thoughts of the cologne lodged between the breasts, snatch (version a and version b), or bum of one of the models from those raunchy, terry richardson-shot ads from back in '07??

anyway, i, for one, am simultaneously perplexed and fascinated. thus, i have attached the rest of the shoot's images below:

there is something inexplicably amazing about this editorial. maybe the fact that the prominent eyes and nose of the model compliment that in leonard tsuguoharu foujita's artwork?? maybe it's the jil sander x raf simons collaborative effort? maybe it's tomoki sukezane's styling?? junji hata's photography???

i don't know. i won't question, i'll just accept. and bask.

sukezane's diary in tokyo maze. sotokoto, february 2010. enjoy!

[spotted at hypebeast]