スージー・ロウのインスタグラム(susiebubble) - 1月14日 09時14分

I know the blog has been so dormant, it’s hard to remember the last time I even posted… a long overdue relaunch/rethink/redesign is on the way but in the meantime… I felt compelled enough to stop mopping up baby vom and instead write about the @ニューヨーク・タイムズ @NYTimesFashion story that has just broken, concerning Bruce Weber and Mario Testino

The darker underbelly of this in-depth exposé is, I’m afraid to say, a discernible lack of surprise within the industry over what they’re reading. We may not have known the particulars and specifics of how Weber or Testino supposedly treated their photographic subjects but the rumours and gossip of this sort of behaviour does the rounds regularly. And despite the persistent (and consistent) accusations against Terry Richardson and the combative voices of industry greats like Caryn Franklin @franklinonfashion , the attitude towards sexual abuse in fashion hasn’t engulfed the industry in the same way that Weinstein and his merry band of bathrobed men has in Hollywood. ⠀
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And there is a machination of keeping the status quo that goes deeper than what we are reading in the report. The “sex sells” operating benchmark is so ingrained within fashion that it ties itself into all kinds of knots with the general modus operandi of the industry. For want of a better word, it pays to be “on” in this business - i.e. being seen to be having fun.⠀
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There’s a vague link somewhere along that very VERY broad spectrum of what’s considered to be “a bit of fun”. Somewhere along that creative process of image creation, subjects will find it difficult to differentiate between what’s above board bordering on the unorthodox and what is clearly past the acceptable line. ⠀
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Change depends on legions of editors, photographers, stylists, designers and those in charge of brand image and marketing collectively changing attitudes that don’t treat these sorts of allegations and rumours as light fodder. The question is, is it the sort of change that might be asking too much of an industry predicated on provocation and boundary pushing? Isn’t it all too seductive, fun, and deliciously decadent? ⠀
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Read the rest of my post in the link in bio.⬆️

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