Garage Cover Features Damien Hirst Vagina Tattoo (PHOTO)

Dasha Zhukova is an intriguing character, a fact apparent simply from a quick description of her: "contemporary-art impresario and girlfriend of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich," WSJ. Magazine called her.

So it was with great anticipation that the fashion world awaited her new art magazine, Garage, a publication bound to include the best and most interesting members of the art world elite (of which Dasha is a member too, of course). Today the covers have leaked and the results are even better than expected.

Featured on one of the three covers: an original Damien Hirst-designed vagina tattoo.

The tat, now permanently owned by model Shauna Taylor, was photographed by Hedi Slimane and is part of a broader "INKED" project, for which artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Paul McCarthy (and Damien Hirst) all designed tattoos for Garage's debut issue. Prince's creation appears on another cover and beneath all three cover images sits a quote by John Baldessari: "I will not wear any more boring tattoos."

The Hirst cover, which comes with a peel-off sticker covering Taylor's private area, may seem gimmicky, but Taylor told the New York Post that she loves her tattoo, which will be with her forever:

"I would have been stupid not to be part of this project. I have a piece of art on my vagina. Not one single person can ever say they gave birth through a Damien Hirst piece of art. I can [if I ever give birth]."

Well, we can't argue with that.

Check out Hirst's Garage cover below and head to Fashionologie.com for pics of the other two covers.

Comments

[Bev McClellan]

08:28 AM on 08/30/2011

Yawn...

[Burden of Truth]

05:20 PM on 08/29/2011

all i have to say is that must have hurt....

A LOT.................

[libwithaclue]

04:11 PM on 08/29/2011

"The Most Risque Mag Cover Ever?"

Hardly. Go to you local magazine counter and take a look at, say.........., Hustler.

[rubysecret]

02:38 PM on 08/29/2011

Anatomy 101: a tattoo on ones "v@gina" could only be viewed by using a speculum.

[Max Shaw]

12:19 PM on 08/29/2011

I dont know what the tattoo looks like but I imagine its gonna stretch quite a bit....Or perhaps she should have gotten a portrait of the Virgin Mary...ya know why.

[LRM216]

10:30 AM on 08/29/2011

Wonder what it's going to look like when she's 70......

[framah]

04:15 PM on 08/29/2011

A yawning hippo?

[Reticent2]

08:57 AM on 08/29/2011

The piece above put it best: gimmicky. Or, the sophomore art undergrad developmental stage of "Looky at me! I'm naked!" (Brand new pair of roller skates playing in the back ground. . . )

[WoodsideCraig]

10:25 PM on 08/28/2011

No, it isn't.

[msminnie]

08:47 PM on 08/28/2011

I wish people would stop calling these "vagina" tattoos. Doesn't anyone know anatomy any more?

[Dede Eagleburger]

09:39 PM on 08/28/2011

is it even possible to get a tattoo there?

[Skorpia]

12:14 AM on 08/29/2011

Probably, but i bet it would hurt like a mo-fo. Can I say that on here? :P

[Reticent2]

08:58 AM on 08/29/2011

Bingo! It's not new, funny, salacious, OR definitionally correct.

[xqzme4saynbutdam]

08:33 PM on 08/28/2011

ok.. you made me look.. thanks a lot

[jackdaniel58]

07:21 PM on 08/28/2011

Why there?

[cjcfleur]

07:07 PM on 08/28/2011

Must have been a man naming the cover because it should have been Mons Butterfly right? I know mine, and as a health professional, the rest of womankind, only after the parting of the thighs and the labia, which sit below the butterfly, is the vagina seen. The Butterfly covers the mons pubis.

[dickn2000b]

02:38 PM on 08/28/2011

That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. It's certainly not risque.

[dammitol]

02:15 PM on 08/28/2011

The Huffington Post is liberal, vulgar and passe. Adios to AOL as well.

[Tracey Furtado]

02:43 PM on 08/28/2011

Adios to you too!

[Hollywooddeed]

08:55 PM on 08/28/2011

Bye

[Karissa36]

01:50 PM on 08/28/2011

If she wants to give birth through a piece of art, she better get it tattooed on her abdomen, and schedule a c-section.