Jun
15
8. Though the editorial was not explicitly linked to Occupy,W magazine (frequently cited as the primary fashion publication of the über-wealthy) published a front-cover November 2011 collaboration with ‘China’s Most Wanted’ Ai Weiwei. The photos consisted of staged theatrics of models getting arrested, handcuffed, interrogated, and in one particularly eroticized shower scene, fully strip-searched.
there is probably something interesting here to be said about the aestheticisation of dissent but I’m stuck on
what the fuck
what the fuck
w h y
