Anna Vorobyeva | Ryan Michael Kelly | ‘And God Created Woman’ SN Living

(commentary cross-published in SN Living)

I saw this artful portfolio shoot by Ryan Michael Kelly of Wilhelmina model Anna Vorobyeva, ‘And God Created Woman’ on the Wilhelmina blog just now. The images come a minute after reading another website’s opinion of the Mario Testino images of Karlie Kloss for the October 2011 issue of Allure.

This is not the front and center, unfiltered naked penis website, who is calling for no agent or agency to ever use Testino again after the Kloss images. Perhaps I’m the only one who sees a contradiction in these two actions. Naked penis was black and white, and Testino is mostly color. Perhaps that’s the quality distinction.

The new pearl of wisdom from across another pond is that high-brow nudity and sensuality are fine for fashion, but low-brow sexuality like Testino’s (no lady parts actually show in the Testino photographs of Karlie Kloss) is not. 

As a sensual woman, I get very nervous when men starts judging high-brow pictures of women versus low-brow pictures. The gesture also smacks of class warfare against women, but I won’t go there.

High Brow vs Low Brow Women

In fact, it may be time to have some fun here — if I can get the widget installed. Let’s see what readers think are ‘high-brow’ versus ‘low-brow’, when the topic is women’s bodies.

The brow-beater editor continues; “There’s no allure to it (the Testino editorial) and, frankly, it’s not that much better than what you’d expect to find in a whole range of low-brow men’s titles.”

Wait a minute! Which low-brow titles are we talking about here? Playboy US? Playboy France? Hustler? LoveCat? Treats!? Not so fast young man.