Check out the images from Interview magazine’s editorial, May 2010 issue tagged “Let’s Get Lost” in our gallery below, photographed by Mikael Jansson and styled by Karl Templer. The tagline describes … Let’s get lost, The hour is late, the air is thick, and the evening is charged with a steamy sensuality. What works? Tone-on-tone swimsuits, slithers of silk, and plenty of skin, as flesh meet flesh, body meets soul, and Daria gets lost in the heat of the night.”
SHF totally understands that fashion is about being edgy, pushing boundaries and all but where do we draw the line between creativity and censored material? Does fashion really have to be demeaned to the level where it is being celebrated alongside rape, orgies and debauchery – all in the name of creativity? Surely we have seen countless fashion editorials, some nude, some with swimsuits, lingerie and even pure silk swaddled around the model’s body without the editorial grinding our noses in the very essence of what the editorial is all about – SEX.
This shoot has been the subject of controversy for racism but that’s not our focus and it is even more disturbing that no one is criticising the shoot for what it stands for which is a bigger societal problem. What is even more annoying is the black model cast featuring some of the brightest, freshest talent in the modelling industry not just randoms – Sedena Black, Ajak Deng, Salieu Jalloh, Oraine Barett, David Agbodji, Adesuwa Aighewi etc who were not acknowledged in the byline of the shoot.
Having said all that, the editorial has stunning photography with fantastic lighting and art direction. Fashion wise, the rock goddess look is played to the hilt with African inspired print (Ankara) headwraps, cornrowed and braided hair.
SHF credits www.interviewmagazine.com and www.refinery29.com, www.fashionologie.com
