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Porn Studies Forum – Porn Studies (Routledge)

The Porn Studies Forum is a regular section of Porn Studies providing a space for timely responses to issues and developments within the academic study of pornography. We encourage provocative and open-ended short pieces of 500-1,500 words (including notes).

CFP: Fashion Shoots and Money Shots: Pornography and Fashion

 

When NSS Magazine launched its online game “Fashion or Porn” in December 2013 – provocatively subtitled “Can you distinguish fashion from pornography?” – its likely aim was to demonstrate that actually… you can’t. In their deployment of naked bodies photographed in sexually charged situations, fashion shoots often do look like porn shoots; and, vice versa, the glossy and stylish quality of contemporary (mainstream) porn production often makes some hard-core materials look like outrageous fashion shows.

Leaving aside the clearly political subtext of such a campaign – and the specious reference to porn in order to emphasise the fashion industry’s objectification of the (female) body– it is true that fashion and pornography have close ties, with mutually influenced imageries and commercial contiguity.

Fashion styles and trends have deeply influenced some instances of hard-core representation, from the “catwalk aesthetic” of glamorous directors such as Andrew Blake and Michael Ninn, to the narrative and stylistic thematization of the fashion world in products like the Fashionistas series by John Stagliano (Evil Angel, 2002-2006) or Max Bellocchio’s Fashion Shoots and Money Shots (Private, 2013).

Equally, the (not so) veiled hint to pornographic (figurative, narrative and symbolic) motifs is commonplace within the fashion industry, for instance in the exploitation of the shock value of certain images for marketing purposes and conscious brand strategies – for example in the banned Calvin Klein 2009 Spring-Summer campaign depicting group sex, in Terry Richardson’s infamous campaigns for Italian brand Sisley, or through the appropriation of pornographic imagery in Vivienne Westwood’s early creations, or Versace’s Fall-Winter 2013-2014 collection, both clearly fetish and BDSM inspired.

Submissions on the following topics are welcome:

 

·      Influences of fashion styles on porn production: shared aesthetics and imageries

·      Pornographic imageries in fashion advertising: shock value, cutting edge creations, or “domestication” of pornography?

·      How pornographic imaginary may influence creation and innovation in fashion

·      How porn “includes” fashion: clothes, make-up and hairstyles in porn movies

·      Different porn sub-genres and different fashion styles: feature vs. gonzo vs. amateur vs. alternative

·      Glamour at the sex shop: sex toys and lingerie as examples of overlapping between fashion and porn

 

Abstract due:

 

30 September 2015

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