If Musk and Putin want to hang out together for a friday night's booze, spent hours on the phone chit-chatting about the weather or send loveletters to each other, it's close to none of my business. But one thing that seems hard to overlook is how they promote some similar views on politics and a "vision" of how society should look like. Musk actively supports this, even overseas etc. And no matter any longer if he didn't invent anything of his own and makes benefits from other people's creativity, today Musk and Tesla can't be considered separate things.
No one will make me believe someone like Katie Grand isn't aware of this, or too stupid not to know what she's doing. If she's getting short of provocative ideas or whatever of this kind, she may just stop for a while instead of throwing this crap at out eyes.
I've been liking a lot of stuff she's been involved in, even when I found some of her choices (aesthetics, topics, characters) rather dubious. I could appreciate her work or things in her magazine that would seem tacky, cheap, grotesque as long as it was made with a touch of class and a twist, with some spark. It was nowhere close to this. Never.
Also when Meisel (for Vogue Italia) would, every now and then, use some controversial topics as the subject of an editorial, it usually raised questions, made you think twice. You could consider he would glamorize the wrong thing, feel disturbed, but you were questioning yourself when you had the magazine in your hands. Here : it doesn't raise any question at all. It's properly appaling to the point the only question left is shall we get really worried from now on when any kind of attention-seeking person feels like 'normal' to compromise with people like Musk and use lightheartedly any kind of symbol related to him and his "friends".
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