Naked Model Recession Trend: Fashion Magazines Forgo Actual Clothes (PHOTOS)

Today Refinery29.com quite rightly points out an ongoing trend in fashion magazines: no fashion!

Is it us, or have you been seeing a whole lot of skin lately? It all started with the spring/summer '09 collections, where hardly a show passed where we didn't see a gamine teenagers' barely-there breasts having their moment to shine on the catwalk. Yesterday in our mailbox, we received a the latest issue of the fashion/culture/art rag Gauvure magazine, featuring a 28-page spread of sorta-kinda-clothed models lounging around. It reminded us of Tar Magazine's debut issue which sported a 34-page Ryan McGinley spread featuring models, but not a stitch of clothing. We're sensing a more liberated and art-driven younger generation of mags storming the shelves, completely ignoring the old guard of label-drenched, consumer-centric pages. Are stylists and fashion editors running out of ideas or, even worse, have their budgets gone poof? Or maybe it's much simpler than that: is skin in?

For example:

See the other naked model photos.

Comments

[neosoul]

04:36 PM on 12/16/2008

Sell by any means necessary? Boring?

In my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with nudity. In fact if you frequent art exhibits, watch cable, search the web, view magazines there’s no way to escape it (I agree, where's the male nudity). But I think too many people/artists/the media use it as the easy way out...how can I get people to pay attention even when I got nothing worthy to say/sell?

[rbryanh]

11:53 PM on 12/15/2008

Nudity is occasionally exalted, frequently depressing, and never significant per se.

[JMBrodie]

11:27 AM on 12/15/2008

Yeah, that style will go over well at the mall. Works for me, though.

[johnnygoodwud]

07:49 PM on 12/14/2008

butt dimples,,,,,,,,,,priceless

[rf-hawaii]

12:22 AM on 12/14/2008

Finally! Fashion that never goes out of style.

[WritingFrontier]

10:35 PM on 12/12/2008

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http://saturdaymorningpost.com/2008/12/12/free-gas/

[Helanren]

10:16 PM on 12/12/2008

It's well known that in fashion, trends come and go in a cyclic way. This is just a rehash of a style once known as "The Emperor's New Clothes".

[BeefJerky]

08:44 PM on 12/12/2008

Prêt-à-Porter. Apparently, Robert Altman was prophetic.

[DeniseD]

06:52 PM on 12/12/2008

These girls need to eat a few sandwiches. Aren't they making enough money to feed themselves?

[obamaluv]

04:28 PM on 12/15/2008

I'm guessing you ate plenty. Leave them alone.

[ecotopian]

05:46 PM on 12/12/2008

Where are the nude men? Sorry folks, this is sexism masquerading as liberation again.

Oh, by the way, I want full frontal nudity from a male model to make this even remotely equal.

[bubbuh]

06:49 PM on 12/12/2008

Americans still fear the p*nus.

[milo h minderbinder]

11:44 AM on 12/15/2008

Looks like there's plenty in the TAR article, just didn't make it into the two shots here.

http://www.afgmanagement.com/ryanmcginley/tar.html

Happy?

[jsgaetano]

05:43 PM on 12/12/2008

Hot naked chicks NEVER go out of style.

[Melpomene42]

05:30 PM on 12/12/2008

Nothing wrong with nudity. Just tired of seeing the one body shape that's "acceptable" in women over and over as the only definition of beauty.

[Adrienne Williams]

10:25 AM on 12/12/2008

LOL I think we Americans need to move on and just understand the human body is a beautiful thing... I think violence is the bad seed. Good to see HP not afraid to bare it all in the name of art!

[rektruax]

07:23 AM on 12/12/2008

I love how many are using this... a nude photo spread... as a means to express what horrible "prudes" Americans are.

Doink!

[carrieanna]

02:35 AM on 12/12/2008

Sorry, but this is old news. One only need to look at Kate Moss' career to see that skin has been in for a long time.