Fall 2011's Strict Discipline Fashion Is a Nod to Alexander McQueen's Complex Sexuality

Strict Discipline

Candice, Saskia, Anais+ | Interview Magazine September 2011 | ‘Strict’ AOC Private Studio

As Interview points out, this severe vision of fashion is strongly rooted in Alexander McQueen’s vision of fashion, Givenchy and now Louis Vuitton. Its roots lie in aristocratic-Brit-punk of English eccentrics. Remember that sexual repression and guilt ran rampant among the Victorians.

Ellen von Unwerth’s ‘Revenge’

Ellen von Unwerth | Smart Sensuality Woman’s ‘Revenge’ AOC Private Studio

The images in “Revenge”, Ellen Von Unwerth provoke our psyches with naughtiness without reducing female integrity in a subhuman way. Von Unwerth’s gift is to tantalize and tempt, to unleash sensual imaginations and desires in a female-centric fashion.