Wait a Cotton Pickin’ Minute…

This is a terribly disappointing posting for me. One of my absolute favorite labels (for which I didn’t even get a chance to do a full posting on) has exhibited a pretty tactless photo on their website as part of their spring advertising campaign. I started out my morning looking at their site to browse the spring collection–in fact I am wearing one of their raincoats today–and I saw this image. I posted it on Facebook first and many people were as shocked as I was. A good friend who lives in Atlanta provided me with the title of this posting, which is the only funny thing about this. I’ll leave you to form your own opinion. I will say that I am usually not this sensitive–I think artists should be somewhat free to make work that is beautiful for beauty’s sake, particularly in fashion photographs or music videos–but I just don’t see how the photographer staged this tableau without thinking of the woman behind the model. She isn’t elegant, styled, or smiling as is often the case in these types of photos. She is a human prop…and a cotton-picking one at that.

Here is the home page for the Gudrun Sjödén website where I found the photo:

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