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Interesting if maybe controversial photo shoot.

annagybe

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http://jezebel.com/5725707/fre.....d/gallery/

The article is linked to each picture.

15 years ago

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Latest reply was from biscuitsmom

chewyspaghetti

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Uh oh!
I actually don't have a problem with this. It's like little girls playing dress up, and none of the outfits/poses looks particularly seductive to me. Of course, I reserve the right to change my mind at any time! LOL

15 years ago

annagybe

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What struck me was that they all had perfect eyebrows. Small weird detail that I picked up.

15 years ago

Tara

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Two words: JonBenet Ramsey.

I absolutely hate this. While the poses may not be overly sexual the come hither looks, very adult makeup and clothing screams sex.

15 years ago

Lisa

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I'm not a fan, let children stay children, not rush them.

15 years ago

Jonesy

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Hmmm...the commentary supplied by the Jezebel writer (Jezebel is a feminist site, just in case anyone doesn't know that suggests that the photo spread is meant to be a critique of the industry-wide practice of using very young teens as models, dressing them up/making them up as women, then selling us (as adult women) these images as aspirational. But, I'm not sure that that's what the mag was going for--perhaps just controversy?

15 years ago

annagybe

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I can't remember if it was French Vogue or Vogue Paris that did a photo shoot with oil soaked rocks on a beach during the height of the Gulf spill. I think you're right Jonesy that they like to push buttons.

15 years ago

hanna

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ugh, not a fan. even when it comes to ads for kid clothing, i always get really repulsed by the children that look like mini adults, as opposed to looking like actual children. as lisa says, they're CHILDREN. why pile on the years before they're ready?

15 years ago

Aida

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Probably doesn't help that girls at a young age want to look older as soon as possible (I was completely oblivious to this as a kid, though), correlating I'm sure with ads featuring younger and younger women/girls.

A lot of the photographers view the shoots as art, and if it's not controversial how will they know it's good?

15 years ago

Tara

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I think the only thing that motivates this shoot is $ and publicity. Controversy is simply a side effect and a means to an end (more exposure, more $).

15 years ago

Maya

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This is clearly a satire, and satire doesn't bother me.

Although the girl stretched out with the word cadeaux (gift) over her is pretty squicky.

15 years ago

hanna

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squicky is such an awesome word.

15 years ago

Tara

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It's only satire if French Vogue makes it a principle never to use models below the age of 16.

If they continue to do so, it is simply hypocrisy.

Like I said, I think the first and foremost motivation is not irony or satire or a pointed comment, but money and publicity.

15 years ago

Kari

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It's way too "Toddlers & Tiaras" for me.

15 years ago

Louise

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I know how much kids love to play dress up and as long as it stays just that I'm OK with it, however it would disturb me if kids where going out dressed like this x

15 years ago

biscuitsmom

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I hate to see things like this- just like that 'toddlers & tieras' show...I think it encourages pedeophiliacs (sp?) and it just makes me sick

15 years ago

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