Back in 2006, Steven Meisel shot a politically themed fashion shoot for Vogue Italia featuring models accused of being terrorists. The following year, he sent models to war and then to rehab.
Now he’s back in the pages of the same magazine, this time getting column inches with a shoot focused around the BP oil spill. Fast Company doesn’t like it, Refinery 29 calls it “fucked up”, while reaction on the fashion boards has so far been pretty positive.
Fashion as politics? Maybe. Politics as fashion? Not so sure. And that’s the problem, for me – in the context of the top-selling September issue of a leading Italian fashion magazine, it’s all about the models and the clothes first, and the setting second. Problematic to say the least.
Fast Company has a snarky slideshow featuring many of the pics here.
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