Fashion Shoot at Berlin Holocaust Memorial Doesn’t Go Over Well
This is something straight out of the movie Bruno. Okay, if you’re going to do a non-ironic fashion shoot in front of Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, chances are you’re going to piss a hell of a lot of people off for trivializing the actual purpose of the memorial.
Thus the case with European low-cost airliner, EasyJet. Their inflight magazine did a fashion shoot where models posed among the concrete blocks of the “Field of Stelae,” which is a memorial to the 6 million Jews murdered in World War II.
The fashoinistas struck a brooding pose in black. Profuse apologizes from EasyJet followed in regard to the outrage once the images appeared in print. Hmm, was it only then that it struck them as inappropriate to have emaciated models strike a pose in front of the Holocaust memorial? Did they think fashion trumps the tragedies of world history?
This latest fashion industry faux pas comes on the cusp of the October issue of French Vogue featuring white models in Blackface.
Do any True/Slant readers have any suggestions for other inappropriate locales EasyJet might want to consider for future fashion shoots? Maybe Auschwitz, the World Trade Center memorial, or the mass graves of Nanjiing?
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I’m thinking Arlington and Iwo Jima Memorial. Pasty white models draped over white headstones. Emaciated models raising a huge Vuitton bag.
Edgy.
That’s a good one. I have a few thought:
-A fashion shoot in an East African village where the models wear fake large bellies and they are surrounded by male models dressed as giant flies.
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