A little Monday Morning Meat.Steven Klein - Photographer
David Agbodji - Model
Fabien Baron - Art Director
Believe it or not, we don't find these pictures all that hot. They're striking and he's stunningly beautiful and we're always happy to see a model of color (especially a male, since black men are even more invisible than black women in fashion), but something about this isn't working for us. It's the greasiness. All we can think is "Ohmigod, you are ruining those clothes with all that baby oil!" And we don't think it helped with the posing. Clearly he couldn't move around much without getting oil streaks all over everything and that stiffness comes through. Look at the way his hands are positioned in the clothed shots. Carefully placed so as not to stain the clothing. There's no sensuality to it.
And in typical CK style, it's been slapped up on a billboard just to piss people off and get them talking. That trick's been working for 30 years.
[Photos: models.com]
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