Lindsey Wixson photographed by Raf Stahelin for Vogue Korea April 2013
Maggie Cheung by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Italia
(Source: mizoguchi, via palimpsestghost)
"Androgyny is lazy journalist shorthand for the situation that arises when onlookers cannot tell whether the person they see is a man or a woman. It maintains the gender binary, but implies that sometimes it is a guessing game. These models, with their demolition of gender binary, are not androgynous. They are queer."
— Alison Bancroft, in “How Fashion is Queer” at The Qouch (March 14, 2013)
I’ve seen some of these pictures a lot of times already, but I never really knew what it was for. All I knew was that Andrej Pejic was one of the models. It’s for Candy magazine which is “the first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations.”
(Via)I don’t usually post things that are fashion related, but I really like cross dressing (as well as androgyny), and I think the color palette is pretty.
I’m still not sure about Candy magazine. Firstly, I don’t like the association with Terry Richardson (it’s all like, Terry, Terry, omg Terry! - give me a break). Secondly, there is some dubious content which borders on fetishization of trans identities. But - I’ve only seen one issue in its entirety.
Yes, I’m also not sure about it. I like the visuals. I like that it gives visibility to MAAB people. However, I am really really not sure that I trust any magazine, save one produced by and/or with great contributions from actual trans* people, could be trusted to portray trans identities and issues in a way that is not “aaaaargh” or “look at us!!!! we are doing a favour for you because we are interested in your tragic bodies” blugh.
also yuck Terry Richardson
Because of the limited run of Candy I s’pose it’s hard to really get a range of views on what people think of it. So, what do you think of it, Tumblr?
L’OFFICIEL PARIS.
MERLE BERGERS by Peppe TORTORA.
Styling: Alexandra ELBIM.
i try to keep my consumption/reblogging of pretty glossy fashion magazine photoshoots of skinny white girls to a minimum… but i really like what’s going on here.
This is the full shoot that was featured on Arise Magazine website
Stylist- Pamela Shepard
Model- Fola Sade
MUA- Risha Rox
my reactions:
OMG the neon lipstick!
OMG those sunglasses!!
OMG the liecthenstein skirt!!!
L’ère Rockab’ by Jean-Baptiste Mondino for Next magazine (Liberation, No. 30, 2011) (via girls-will-be-boys)
i’ve seen these circulate uncredited more times than i can count and was curious if they were portraits or a photoshoot. reblogging for credit.
i will always prefer the real deal teddy girls to styled models in a photoshoot for a fancy fashion magazine but hey, i can get behind badass hard femme fo sho.
(via extrememakeunder)
