It's like heroin chic.

Only even less attractive.

And a bit more ironic.

What a shame...its pretty shocking

alexmlwallace: i'm still waiting for heroine chic.

wait, why hasn't that been made into a t-shirt?

Okay, that's just fucked up.

When Cindy Sherman did the dead model thing, it was to call attention to how ridiculous our society's portrayal of women in the media is. But what's the deal with these necrophiliac fashion designers? Did they graduate from the Ted Bundy School of Women's Fashion?

I like how the premise of the vogue spread is that rehab is some exclusive club that you can only enter by showing up wearing no pants.

While I am generally anti-pants, I think you can show insane women in a feminist fashion. High Tension's buzz-saw wielding villain played with french xenophobia and gender roles in a way that was refreshing for the typically misogynist horror genre.

Marcus, why are you anti-pants?

All that one need know about fashion photography was accomplished about 10 minutes into Antonioni's Blow Up.

You know, when Britney shaved her head she said something like "I was tired of being touched." I thought that made sense. She wasn't going insane, she was acting rationally to stop people from invading her space. Yes, it might have been mild career masochism, but it was also a rational response to the social environment. And shaving your head is fun!

Now the fur thing, well, fur is dead. Fur is gross. I think those photos are appropriate. Put the fur in the trash. Make it obvious the fur is nasty and dead. The women represents the sacrificed animals used to make the coats. That seems to me like a literal artistic interpretation of fashion. You're supposed to be grossed out by it.

The insane asylum, well, I don't know what the hell is going on there. But I'd love to see Bruno (aka Sacha Barron Cohen) interview the photographer and fashion director for those shoots.

If furries become mainstream, modern civilization is fucked.

I have my own theory.
These women are little more than sexual icons. Everything in the marketing presentation of their personalities is one of vapid thought and sexual titillation. They are very wealthy and powerful, mostly by pure chance of birth and beauty since most of them are virtually talentless. The image of a powerful woman, regardless of how she attained that power, is frightening to men and part of our culture indulges in their downfall because now it is an image of a powerful woman humiliated and shown that her power is meaningless.

I hate fur. Animals shouldn't have to die in the name of fashion.

I can not believe they dressed models up and posed them as roadkill. What the hell kind of fur are they wearing? Possum?

Funny, I've lived with mental and neurological illnesses for almost all my life, and I can't recall ever having my own photo spread! I thought that being so depressed that you don't shower for a week was supposed to be SEXY!

I usually don't give two shits about what celebrity behavior, but the whole Britney thing both worries and irritates me. It shows how rampant apathy and bias towards behavioral distress still is.

Possum's fer stew, not fer fashion spreads.

What the fuck does nudity have to do with fashion??????

"You know, when Britney shaved her head she said something like "I was tired of being touched.""

I seem to recall it was something more disturbing like "no one will touch me again"

While I'm a fan of shaved heads on women, I thought that comment said a lot: maybe it's just too far out of context, but it sounded a lot like it meant she was having a breakdown from being treated like a piece of meat for most of her life

I don't understand the motivation for posing women as corpses. A few weeks ago I stumbled across the "Trash the Dress" phenomenon (which I also don't understand), including the work of John Michael Cooper. The featured pictures depict a woman on fire, a woman drowning, and the winner: a dead bride with blue ankles, stuffed in a trunk with her triumphant looking "groom" standing next to the car, shovel in tow.

And now these ads? "Dead" women strewn around the forest floor?

The recent Wisconsin attempted-necrophilia gives these photos an even creepier meaning. I just don't get it.

I don't know what to be more disturbed by: the existence of those pictures, or that something in them triggers my "that looks pretty" response.

Does thinking that the pictures actually do look pretty put me into the category of "sick fuck"? I'm scared...

Why naked? WHY NAKED?! Augh!

If anything, they're glamourising sexual assault/murder. It's like CSI, except that we're supposed to find it attractive instead of tragic and horrifying.

Nothing hotter than a naked corpse in a fur coat.

It's like heroin chic on...um...crack? weed? even more heroin?

THe objectification of women is disturbing. Partly because it then renders the idea of women's distress exploitable as another part of their 'intrigue', something to be looked at, in a helplessly attractive rag-doll way. It's cruel to anyone suffering from mental illness, and a brutal rejection to the realities of mental illness. These photos are repugnant and illiterate when taken in context of the world represented in the article seen here, earlier, on the gender biases of electroshock, or in a discussion of homelessness and mental illness.