Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However befuddled by misogyny, Miles and Gray are not alone. Despite the rise of feminism-or perhaps because of it-images of women being physically abused are becoming increasingly common. In record-album photos, fashion and men's magazine layouts, and even a few department-store windows and billboards, women are shown bound, gagged, beaten, whipped, chained or as victims of murder or gang rape. Says Zox, a Los Angeles photographer who has shot photos of women mutilating themselves: "S and M has been a trend in the arts for a while. It is just becoming a commercial trend...
...Fashion magazines are not far behind the recording world. Now that nudity, sexual fondling and lesbianism are frequently shown in illustrating fashions, photographers have turned to themes of sexual violence. Says German-born Chris von Wangenheim, 34, a New York City fashion photographer: "The violence is in the culture, so why shouldn't it be in our pictures...
...breakthrough in fashion misogyny displays was Photographer Helmut Newton's spread in the May 1975 Vogue ("The Story of Ohhh ..."), which included shots of a woman wincing in pain as a man bit her left ear, and another of a man ramming a hand into a woman's breast. Newton, who is regarded as one of the fashion world's most elegant photographers-and also one of its kings of kink-has since turned out a series of pictures showing women as killers and victims. Perhaps the most shocking showed a woman's head being forced...
...Even fashion pictures of strong women seem designed to play on the fears of misogynist men. A Von Wangenheim photo in the current Vogue has a vagina dentata theme: a vicious dog faces the camera, with bared teeth directly in front of a woman's crotch. Doesn't the picture seem to say that women are sexual killers? "Well," rationalizes Von Wangenheim, "it works better that...
...Poor people and minorities are out of fashion," the paper says...