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This Mert And Marcus Editorial Makes Death And Bestiality Look Beautiful

by Verena von Pfetten | 4:34 pm, August 1st, 2011

We’ve taken issue with fashion ads and editorials that glorify violence but this Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-lensed editorial for LOVE magazine’s seriously stacked “supernatural” issue takes morbid themes to a whole new level. The photos are beautiful, but in a haunting, terrifying, and seriously creepy way.

The spread features no shortage of historical and artistic references — Leda and the Swan, anyone — and it almost makes us wish we hadn’t slept through most of our art history classes. But riddle us this: are we wrong for finding these images beautiful? Does the death and violence portrayed in the spread take things too far? Take a look and tell us what you think.






  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LASIK3PT7Z4QXQGTN4G4GZ3QYY Nayith

    just too complex for my eye… But not bad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/derrode Derrode Louis Rowe

    I also see a lot of sexual bondage as well.

  • Joyfull40

    And we wonder why so many young people are depressed, or even worse, commit suicide these days. Photos like this are one of the reasons they do. Take a look around you. Seen any upbeat ads lately? Seen any upbeat smiling fashion models lately? 
    Maybe I’m falling out of the loop as they say, But as far as I’m concerned, near death looking models, & this kind of sh** belongs in the designers own whacked out mind only.  It doesn’t need to be advertised as the lastest fashion trend. 
    My god, what ever happened to taste?

  • Esinem

    I think the photos are stunning but then I might be biased as the one who did the bondage

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Esinem/100001091783745 Bruce Esinem

    I am interested to hear where Verena von Pfetten see violence in such images? Is this the erroneous connection that some seem to make between bondage and violence or non-consensuality? Maybe one should question what sort of mind links the two in a non-consensual sense? Is it the sort that links images of consensual sex with rape? Personally, I see consensual sensuality.

    “Honi soit qui mal y pense”: “Shamed be he who thinks evil of it” :-D

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