Torture Couture

So I guess you can finally call this look "fierce" and mean it.

What do you mean, khsing? Black hoods are, like, so hot right now. And the rope around the neck! I'm sure they're trying to make a statement about the media's obsession with torture images and are not just being totally insensitive to the men and women who have suffered greatly at the hands of tortureres, including US soldiers.

Maybe next season it will be white hoods and there'll be a big flaming cross at the back of the stage and they'll make the black models wear nooses.

Man sometimes I HATE fashion.

I don't know if this is an expression of a designer's feelings towards torture, but my initial impression is that it trivializes a very sad and serious issue today. Slapping some paint and mask on a tanned, hard body seems to gloss over a horrible reality.

I love it! I can't wait until the Gap or Old Navy catches on!

ugh...is this supposed to represent something? was there a theme behind this?? interesting....

This is why I don't follow shallow fashion trends.

but these fashion designers... they're artistes!!! The greatest function of art is to teach us about ourselves and the turbulent, topsy-turvy times we live in, and nowhere is that crucial function more in evidence than the runways of Paris, Milan and NYC!!

Hey, the Gap could do a special line based on child slave labor in sweat shops in undeveloped foreign countries.

That'd be cool. Instead of pre-washed they could do sweat stained shirts and soiled pants and shorts.

hey, thats an idea voyager!!!!

eeew is right, i agree with abby i may not like it or understand it, but the reality is is that it's here for someone (not sure who) but oh well.......

This is,a sign, a precursor to the coming culture of death which has already been launced under the guise of the ''pop-culture'' movement. Skulls, occult symbols, sounds crazy? well, I'm sure some of you have cloths imprinted with a skull or two, it's not a joke. The mind is inclined to shapes, colors and angles, and in combination these symbols can subtly influence the mind. This is quite a fashion statement, and a dangerous one.

Uh... Where do I get it. I think i kinda started it a little two years ago; the way i was shooting.

First off, I abhor fashion, and I don't follow it.
This line is no different; the torture-esque stuff isn't even interesting.
At all.
Just a bunch of dirty, half naked models with hoods.
Whooptie-doo.

If you're going to tackle something that sensitive and controversial, then the least you can do is create something awesome and unique and creative, something with some juice - put some effort into it - instead of picking bits of costumes from smut films and relying on the viewer's mental gag reflex to draw attention to it.
That's just insulting, as I believe is the consensus here.

However, as to the knee-jerk reaction to its monstrous insensitivity...so? So what?
Torture is indeed one of many horrific realities...it always has been, not just in "today's world."
I hope I never know more about it than what I read in articles and history books.

But there are a lot of monstrous things that get represented in art / "art" all the time, from war to torture to death to mutilating little kittens.
Even though this particular representation is [as far as I can see] nothing more than fashion-smut / shock-reliant brain-dribble, they still have every right to present it.

Methinks the only reason they did it was to get this sort of reaction from people, which would draw attention to the rest of the line.
Distasteful, sure, but apparently effective.

Art isn't safe. Not even crappy art.

Humdrum, we could be good friends bro! good point

This is disgusting