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Toni Garrn photographed by Mariano Vivanco for Muse 27.

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Photograph by Yu Tsai for Vince Camuto, Fall 2011.

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Audrey Marnay photographed by Mikael Jansson for Longchamp, Fall 2011.

Interactive video trip below.

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Venus Observations is a blog that takes a not-quite academic look at the evolution of ‘adult periodicals’ in the 1970s; when obscenity standards were first challenged and nude photography took its first major steps from pin ups to hardcore porn.

Noted in this post is how things have changed a bit – where model Daria Werbowy (pictured) can appear nakkid in today’s French Vogue in poses that could have filled the pages of Penthouse in the early 1970s.

Americans have real issues with the human body – which can be interpreted as sex=bad, with the US counterbalance being violence=good. I never quite get this, often wish we were okay with things the way they are in Europe.

Cause nude is the best way to showcase jewelry, right?

Photography by Mikael Jansson

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Got a whiff of Burberry Body yesterday.

Sweet and floral with a hit of musk and absinthe. The fragrance was developed by Michel Almairac with overall design headed up by Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey.

Campaign features Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (doing another trenchcoat tease), photographed by Mario Testino.

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‘The Largest Magazine Ever Produced by Guinness World Record. No shit!’

Gaga, photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Visionaire 61 – the ‘Larger Than Life’ issue.

Found via art8amby

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‘The range moniker pays homage to The Third Mind, a 1978 book and concept by William Burroughs and Brian Gysin, which showcased the ‘cut ups’ technique originating from the Surrealists – a form also adapted to film making by Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren. In this mode, unrelated texts and images where literally cut up and rearranged to form radical narratives and vistas.’

Abbey Lee Kershaw, shot by Elle Muliarchyk for ManiaMania. Info here.

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‘Karlie Kloss lives up to her reputation as the all-American girl as she dons glitter, sequins and Lurex to revisit New York’s Seventies disco heyday’

Editorial for the November 2011 British Vogue photographed by Terry Richardson.

Donna Summer: Hot Stuff

Found via Fashion Indie

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Above, Empire State of Mind, an ode to New York City.

Below, Adrian Kinloch’s photos from the Brooklyn Bridge, October 1, 2011.

More here.

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The work of Denise van Leeuwen.

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‘Between Puck and Heidi Montag’

Another highlight from this season’s Project Runway is Colorado-based fashion designer Julie Tierney.

I love how Julie’s design inspiration comes from multiple, multiple sources – which she then takes to another place – familiar, dramatic and  . . .  layered. [Read more →]

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