From models as mental health patients to literary suicides reimagined with on-trend clothes – politically incorrect fashion shoots are nothing new,and they’re getting increasingly cringe “Wow, Kylie Jenner in a wheelchair looking like Michael Jackson wearing wet-look bondage gear for the cover of Interview. So cool! So groundbreaking! So edgy!” thought absolutely no one this week. The sight of the able-bodied reality star has prompted comprehensible nettle from disability groups, and but mostly,just a massive eye-roll. Primarily because it is so embarrassingly obvious in its tender for notoriety. A cringe-inducing attempt at pushing the boundaries of taste. Faux shockery at its most insipid.
The shoot – billed as “surreal” – probably had the work of artist Allen Jones on the moodboard. The magazine says it is a comment on Jenner’s fame and the intense media scrutiny she is under. There is Kylie being carried like a empty sex-shop mannequin, Kylie in gold bare-torso armour, and Kylie exposing her bottom while carrying a drinks tray. Referencing Jones’s work is guaranteed to cause a fuss – as Russian socialite and magazine chief Dasha Zhukova knows. final year,she was forced to apologise when she was pictured on Bjarne Melgaard’s so-called racist chair” – an artwork that referenced a controversial 60s piece by Jones. What’s particularly cringeworthy about the Jenner/Interview shoot is that Jones never produced work based on a wheelchair; its use conjures up images of some lackey panicking and floundering around for a prop that a Kardashian hadn’t used somewhere, thrown in for extra “shock” value.
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Source: theguardian.com