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The most controversial editorials

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All these eds are great!
Carine sends a clear message to anti-fur activist in Reality Show
 
Magazine: Numero #83 may 2007
Title: Immaculee
Model: Alana Zimmer
Photographer: Miles Aldridge

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The one where Lara became another race, and Raquel and that pro fur spread. Also, the one in Vogue US with Anna Maria, Lily, Caroline and Coco.

The one where the models impersonate Anna Wintour is controversial too you know.:lol:
 
I see more gimmicks instead of real controversy triggers in many of the stories that were supposed to create shock during the decade. Lots of them only combined already played-out themes with only a timid dash of grotesqueness. Homosexuality, Catholicism, sex, the black and white racial theme.. they all seem like the recurrent, forbidden topics that must've culturally and morally challenged your grandparents in the 70s, 80s.. even if many survivor of these years are still alive now, I don't think fashion has truly had the guts to address topics that people are sensitive to NOW. I mean, have we seen a story of same-gender parents raising a kid in any of the publications that take pride on being 'radical'?, how about the current migration in Europe or the US, a topic that's even uncomfortable and hard to accept to all those self-proclaimed controversy lovers of fashion daring stories?.
I don't know.. maybe I expect too much but I think fashion's need for controversy can be interesting if it has some sort of mission, or real guts and if it touches a topic that people tend to shudder about.. controversy for the sake of a chuckle can hardly be that.. controversial.
 
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MulletProof said:
I don't know.. maybe I expect too much but I think fashion's need for controversy can be interesting if it has some sort of mission, or real guts and if it touches a topic that people tend to shudder about.. controversy for the sake of a chuckle can hardly be that.. controversial.
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I agree with you & although I find some of the editorials interesting... some of these magazines should try put more thought into what they're doing. The fact that Carine & Franca are constantly saying it's just fashion... don't take it so seriously is just so annoying to me. Fashion is a statement & it can be made a million different ways... all of which should be put to mind when making it.
 
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The Nun Head ed was definitely controversial. Some shots weren't even published!
 
MissMagAddict said:
I agree with you & although I find some of the editorials interesting... some of these magazines should try put more thought into what they're doing. The fact that Carine & Franca are constantly saying it's just fashion... don't take it so seriously is just so annoying to me. Fashion is a statement & it can be made a million different ways... all of which should be put to mind when making it.
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well that's an interesting question you, guys, raise here. but i really doubt fashion actually has the guts for real controversy. i mean, if Lara's edit in VP was considered controversial (hello there!) can we really hope to see any publication addressing any serious issue? once a model grabs a cigarette, shows her body or changes hue of her color skin the title gets slashed and brashed by all the moralizers out there. it's got too ridiculous and i kind of understand why editors don't want to bother. today everyone has opinion and what's even more tragic, knows what should be and shouldn't be done within a magazine. the world is full of Diana Vreeland-s, you know...
and please let's not forget about advertisers. as the rules of what you can do/can't do get stricter, there's even less room for doubting things.
i think, as much as we want it, fashion publications don't really need controversy nowadays. oh so often it does get to the point of 'whoa, look, there's a beautiful gown you should really get your hands on'. and not much more than that.
 
Only ones that comes to mind is the plastic surgery issue with Linda on the cover of VI. Also, the black issue of 2008 of VI. Those two made MAJOR headlines outside the fashion world! But if just editorials then most definitely the plastic surgery one.
 
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Only ones that comes to mind is the plastic surgery issue with Linda on the cover of VI. Also, the black issue of 2008 of VI. Those two made MAJOR headlines outside the fashion world! But if just editorials then most definitely the plastic surgery one.
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Yeah, i loved that editorial
 
OH GOD I LOVE ALL the editorials featured in this thread! :heart:

Meisel's "A Sexual Revolution" will always be one of my top favourites!
 
That W editorial with Louise Pedersen in a playground was very controversial. I can't find the images though...
 
Oh, and I remember,
16 years old Zippora Seven topless in Rush Magazine
that was something...
 
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