My girlfriend alerted me to this…
Designer Tom Ford with a naked Keira Knightly and Scarlett Johanssen on the cover of Vanity Fair. Apparently Rachel McAdams (Red Eye, The Wedding Crashers) was supposed to join in but, when actually on set, didn’t feel comfortable getting naked.
Which is fine with me. I could have done without Keira Knightley and Tom Ford.
Although there is something about Knightley…
And yes, Tom Ford is gay. In fact, I once read an interview in which he said he’s not even attracted to slight or feminine gay men and prefers athletic men with, he made a point of emphasizing, broad shoulders and thick wrists. This made John Russell cry.
Posing Ford with these women is, therefore, something like presenting the lactose intolerant with a gallon of Ben and Jerry’s. But I’m sure he had fun on an entirely different (if less prurient) level.
6 Comments
February 9, 2006 at 6:24 am
It DID make me cry! You know what else made me cry? He got naked in the Nov issue of W magazine (the my other fav fashion personality, Kate Moss, on the cover) and I never bought the issue. Then a few weeks ago, I was looking though old magazines on one of those card tables on 6th Ave and there was the naked Tom Ford issue, but some dude grabbed it just before I could! Weep.
February 9, 2006 at 6:34 am
You can’t find the pictures on the Interweb?
Or wouldn’t it be the same?
February 9, 2006 at 2:30 pm
See, magazine covers like that piss me off – not because the women are naked, but because the man is fully clothed, and they’re posed around him like Ming vases. It doesn’t matter that he’s gay, because it’s not about HIM enjoying his decorations – it’s about the fact that WE’RE supposed to enjoy them as decorations. Nothing about that cover says, “Scarlett Johansen is an intelligent and wonderful person.” It says “OOOO Boobies!!” There’s nothing wrong with boobies, but people need to remember that they are attached to a person. I’m sure you can remember that, but a lot of people, not so much.
February 9, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Yeah, I agree. Interestingly, however, one of the photos from W (which, yes, I found on the interweb, and, no, it’s just not the same) is of a naked Tom Ford flanked by two fully clothed women. This, of course, was not the cover image.
February 10, 2006 at 9:29 pm
I agree with that.
But I think what does it for me is that they seem so aware of how beautiful they are and they seem to be enjoying showing off.
Would be cool if more men felt that way, or felt it wasn’t something exclusively feminine – me included.
February 14, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Rachel McAdams was probably uncomfortable becuase she is a crap actress and those other two are stars. That’s enough to make everyone cry….