Shot by Alexi Hay and carrying no fashion credits, this shoot portrays a group of hustlers with their wares on display. One pimply youth sucks his thumb and grabs his crotch with both hands, a second exposes his bare rear end, and a third suggestively rubs a leather strap between his legs. Spoon, the Euro downtown fashion photo book, took cruising a step further in its recent debut men's issue. Its cover shoot features a model posing on the Parisian street where Newton shot his legendary image of the Yves Saint Laurent tuxedo. It might sound harmless, but on the inside, the model poses provocatively in a Parisian neighborhood that is home to gay hustlers.
Some magazines do their best at disguising pornography as clean, or high-end sexual images.
The brainchild of men's wear designer Kinder Aggugini, Deliciae Vitae does its best to make its sexual imagery look less pornographic witht the help of leading photographers like Phil Poynter, Marc Hom, Bettina Rheims and Ellen Von Unwerth. Ultimately, the invasion of pornography is a metaphor for our deeply ironic age. Nothing, or at least very little, is sacred anymore - especially in fashion.