When I think “sexy,” I tend to think of three things:
1. Soft candlelight
2. The music of Barry White
3. Automobile crash test research
Apparently, the people over at DSQUARED2 (which, by the way, comes out to D4 ) agree with me on the last one:
Good for discussions about objectification, driving safety, or that fashion photographers are finally starting to run out of ideas.
Comments 4
J — July 28, 2008
When I read the title, I was really hoping this would be about crash test dummies. Thank you for not disappointing me.
Ashe Mischief — July 28, 2008
More like copying old ideas; David Cronenberg has a film from the 80s called "Crash," which is about people who are sexually aroused by car crashes, accidents, getting in to them, recreating famous ones (with celebrity deaths), and the handicaps that result in them. It stars James Spade and I believe Holly Hunter?
It's actually a quite disturbing, though sexually intriguing film...
Liz — July 29, 2008
Chuck Palahniuk wrote a book called "Invisible Monsters" whose protagonist is a model who is the victim of extreme facial disfigurement, and one of her quips is about how the uglier the photoshoot location is, the better the clothes look in comparison. She talks about photoshoots in junkyards, slaughterhouses, etc. I remember Vogue once had a photoshoot in a huge meet freezer, and another one where they made the model look like a crash test dummy, all shiny and getting handled by electrical equipment.
macon d — August 4, 2008
And of course, J.G. Ballard's book Crash may have started it all (it was the basis also for Cronenberg's film). Here's another, 17-minute film starring Ballard, who leers at a shapely, ghostly women as he muses in voiceover about the connections between cars, bodies, death, and sexual desire. (Warning--psuedo-graphic imagery.) It would surely spark lively class discussion and debate.