Dead is not sexy. It is not alluring, and it is definitely is not fashion. So you would think…
Marc Jacobs is not the first, but he certainly should be he last. His latest campaign features a femaale corpse, with two other models in close proximity.
A disturbing trend in fashion is emerging. Over the year’s female corpses, especially beautiful female corpses have become a staple of fashion shoots, advertising campaigns and TV shows, with sexual and fatal violence against women a favorite.
In an age where violence against woman has never been higher, do people actually want these images? Do they want violence against women to be sexualized?
This trend can hardly have gone further in illustrating fashion's fetishisation of the female corpse. And it is disgusting.
This obsession with death isn't so surprising, when you consider it as the obvious and ultimate end point of a spectrum in which women's passivity and silence is sexualized, stylized and highly saleable. And this flies in the face of all women who have survived crimes committed against them, and all women who have throughout history struggled get rid of the passive housewife stigma to reach the heights that was once only attainable by men.
Sexualizing death and violence against woman in any circumstance is wrong,. Lets send a message to Marc Jacobs and the fashion industry in general. Stop this horrifically disturbing trend. Dead woman are not sexy, corpses are not sexy. Violence against woman is not sexy. Stop it now!
