Tom Ford | 'Jeune Fille Innocente' | Vogue Paris December 2010

Tom Ford’s December 2010 Vogue Paris guest editorship has created more than a few waves, with a series of provocative statements about fashion and global culture.  Ford probably confirmed to French readers that Americans just have no taste.

The rumours are flying that Bernard Arnault was so disgusted by the ‘Jeune Fille Innocente’ editorial above, that he threatened to pull an entire month of advertising for Vogue Paris. Was Carine Roitfeld actually fired over this issue? We doubt it. Read on Carine Roitfeld | Whispering ‘Insiders’ Fuel Rumour Mill | NSFW

Of all the Vogue Paris December 2010 Tom Ford editorials, ‘Jeune Fille Innocente’ could be the most offensive to the French, and I can understand why.

France isn’t known for dressing its children in rouge lipstick, before sending them off for a bikini wax. Unlike America, which considers women over the hill at 30, France celebrates older woman and the totality of a woman’s life cycle.

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Tom Ford Sees the Sexy Solutions in Modern Relationships

A few years ago, Tom Ford’s advertising was the most provocative on the planet.  Underscoring the giant steps fashion media has taken to incorporate nudity into its editorial, the new Tom Ford eyewear campaign featuring Carolyn Murphy is witty but tame like a Playboy bunny — except for its androgyny and witty, skewed bisexuality. No make that  … forget it …  whatever your sexual preference is today is fine. Tomorrow you can be somebody else.

Ford could be on to something. Once fashion incorporates pussy shots — not closeups yet — by top models into the new LOVE, edition #3, where else is there to go?  Fetish? Macro pussy shots?

I’ve consulted on the coming intersection between soft porn and fashion for almost 10 years, having no doubt that media would deliver LOVE #3 and British Vogue with naked women on their covers. The question is ‘what’s next’?.

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