Louis Vuitton Takes Editorial Brand Risk With Nudity in Istanbul

Note | Nudity This fashion editorial was the one that prompted me to merge my sexier business consulting website Sensuality News (then Sexy Futures) with Anne of Carversville. When I saw this original photo spread, I was frankly astonished and thought I was now being too conservative in acknowledging the trend I call New Eroticism.

It turns out that my instincts were correct on the short-term. The original group of photos that jump started this journey have been removed (now reinstalled at end of article), because they and others fashion images that were unfiltered )my mistake) resulted in ALL of the AOC website being kicked out of a moderate search on Google. Lesson learned. Abut 40 images brought down 20,000.

Our traffic was building so quickly — and NOT because of sexy photos which were never more than 5% of our total page views — that I didn’t even notice the change in image search status until Easter weekend. When high-drawing articles of a totally innocent nature dropped off, I just assumed it was the rise and fall of search inquiries. Wrong! Images of oranges were not embargoed as pornography — you know, round mounds of delicious, juicy flesh.

I also believe that Marc Jacobs (who permits all these advertorial decisions at the end of the day) is pushing back on the modesty arguments from the global morality police. More men than women — especially my dear fashionista sisters — understand that women are actually in worsening trouble in many parts of the world, including America. I remain astonished that these images appeared in Elle Turkey, a Muslim country. Anne

(Update: Remainder of Koray Birand’s Missy Rader images, originally unfiltered and the source of our major problems with Google images, are at end of article, now properly filtered from moderate search.)

See also Koray Birands Digital Portfolio.

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