Sigrid Agren | Greg Kadel | Numero 131 | 'Hollyweird'

Greg Kadel takes on the case of attacks against Smart Sensuality women worldwide, in this ‘creepy’ but brilliantly executed editorial of Sigrid Agren for Numero 131, which is devoted to Sirens, if you remember. Patti Wilson styles Sigrid in Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Calvin Klein and Rick Owen — all channeling women’s wisdom, and the price that women have paid globally for our sensuality.

This is another of those editorials that when I read comments on other blogs, I see the gulf of wisdom between myself and others in how we interpret editorials. It’s really a chuckle and a key reason why American photographers must go to Europe and beyond to make artistic, controversial fashion editorials.

There are moments when I think American women have gone totally braindead. But then so many young women are becoming my friend on FB. “Flaw free hair and makeup by Franco Gobbi and Mariel Barrera complement the blonde’s strange ensembles.”/Set design by Peter Klein

Sorry for being a bitch, but I can’t resist. The stakes are too high these days for American women, who are totally under assault as this fashion editorial communicates. If we fall, goodness knows what happens to women in poor countries.

English 101 French style: ‘double entendre’. A double entendre is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase (or fashion editorial) is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first (more obvious) meaning is straightfoward, while the second meaning is less so and often risqué or ironic.

And to complete my Friday morning rant, I can accept no nudity by Emmanuelle Alt, but this is the kind of editorial vision she could represent — as Numero and Vogue Spain dished out this month — instead of the fashion pablum she feeds us from Paris. If Carine Roitfeld were at the helm, there would be a real rumble going on.  Anne

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