by Jon Lackman | 4 February 2008 | Uncategorized
Regarding our earlier post (‘The Abu Ghraib Effect’), see also this recent segment from NPR’s “On the Media”:
Models wearing designs from John Galliano’s Fall 2008 Mens collection looked as if they’d stepped out of Abu Ghraib prison and onto Paris runways. Do the designs fetishize torture? RISD professor Kathleen McDermott says Galliano is following in a long tradition of designers who use couture to make shocking political commentary …
