Topic: Vice Magazine

Vice Magazine Removes, Apologizes For(!) Tasteless Fashion Editorial About Lady Writer Suicides

Vice Magazine Removes, Apologizes For(!) Tasteless Fashion Editorial About Lady Writer Suicides

As you may know, the ever-edgy Vice* Magazine put a “controversial” fashion spread in its newly released “Women In Fiction” issue, perhaps to balance out all the tasteful content from writers like Mary Gaitskill and Joyce Carol Oates. In said spread, well-dressed models portray various female writers who ended their lives by suicide, alongside helpful notes about the clothing and accessories they are wearing. (If you are looking for some stockings to hang yourself with, check out these super sturdy ones made by Prada!) More »

Vice Tackles Menstruation Fashion With Startling ‘There Will Be Blood’ Photo Shoot

Vice Tackles Menstruation Fashion With Startling 'There Will Be Blood' Photo Shoot
One last warning.
"There Will be Blood"
"There Will be Blood"
"There Will be Blood"
"There Will be Blood"

Vice loves the chance to provoke people (occasionally with memorable results) but this time we’re 1) kind of impressed by how far they’ve gone and 2) kind of shocked no one’s done it before*. In “There Will Be Blood,” we have what looks like a typical Vice shoot–a mix of new and vintage fashions, unconventional models, unglamorous locations–and period stains. Yes, the subjects appear to be menstruating.

The editorial was shot by a woman named Emma Arvida Bystrom who–based on a rough Google translation of her blogspot–seems very interested in the representation of women in media, especially beauty ideals (and, it would seem, subverting them). On the one hand, the images show nothing more than biological function and are only shocking because we never see things like this. On the other, some just seem like gory sensationalism. More »