I don't think it would make a difference if she does change her mind and reviews it.... she is obviously critical of the collection. Personally I think it is ridiculous. This is not to say that violence against woman isn't a real issue but I think boycotting something because it is based on somebody else's work and that somebody else may have been callous... Fact is the 80's high fashion magazines were, and still are for that matter, 'kink friendly' and if you look at the life of Gia for example she was supposedly strung out on heroin and looked dead in half her pictures. Why would a fashion photographer have more respect for the health of a model than she herself has? Not saying she was photographed by him but from what I have read of famous models from 60s through early 80s {eddie and gia} they were not exactly present. If you are photographing girls who are passed out or on drugs all the time then being all here honey let me wait for you to be conscious doesn't make much sense to me.
I think it is sad that his wife and girlfriends were also troubled. I used to work for a very wealthy family in NY and they had very famous people at their parties {models, politicians, actors} and I can assure you that even into the 90s the drug culture and casual sex were still very much the thing. I was a nanny and the kids were so messed up needing counseling and I wouldn't be surprised if I read in some rag that they had both drug problems but made poor romantic choices. I would assume he met his girlfriends the way most men meet their girlfriends~ through work or socializing with friends who would have been part of that culture. I would assume they had drug problems and maybe his frustration with them caused him to lock them in or keep them off the phone so they couldn't be getting drugs. Or maybe his frustration with how a drug problem had him look down on the women he worked with. All supposition but the article was also supposition or a quote or two taken out of context.
I cannot believe people are talking about boycotting Nars. Pshaw. I certainly am not going to judge Nars for saying hey this guy's images influenced me into going into makeup and I want to pay homage to those images. Nobody had this flap over Warhol doing a lot of male nudes and having his films open in gay porn theatres. Are we saying it is okay to fetishize men but not to fetishize women? He photographed and filmed his 'friends' in the middle of orgies and distributed it as art... wiki on the factory says:
Nudity, graphic sexuality, drug use, same-sex relations and transgender characters appear in some form in almost all of his work filmed at the Silver Factory. Considered socially unacceptable, even appalling at the time, theaters showing his underground films were sometimes raided and the staff arrested for obscenity.
However, by making the films, Warhol created a sexually lenient environment at the Factory for the happenings that they staged, such as fake drag weddings, porn theater rentals, and vulgar plays. A large amount of free love took place in the scene, as sexuality in the 1960s was becoming more open. Sex was practically a must for anyone hanging around, and was encouraged by Warhol, who used footage of sexual acts between his friends in his work.
Also part of 'the scene' at the Factory were famous drag queens such as Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis, and the transgendered Candy Darling. As an artist, Andy Warhol frequently used these women and other sexual non-conformists in his films, plays, and on-goings.
Because of the constant drug use and the presence of sexually liberal artists and radicals, drugged orgies were a frequent happening at the Factory. Andy met Ondine at an orgy in 1962.
Seriously, and I am not trying to say it was okay, if it is true, but I would have to boycott every single makeup and fashion house if I were going by they did a sexually degrading image or tested on animals way back in the 60s. Heck there are people that consider high heels a torture of women that thows their back out of wack and ruins their tendons and what not. There are people that consider a short skirt or low cut blouse degrading to women. And make-up is some form of harlotry. Or maybe it is because I live in the bible belt where wearing makeup can be seen as suspicious by some. I even have a friend who considers wearing her hair down sinful. I deal enough with that madness that I am not looking at what may or may not have been happening 50 yrs ago 0.o
