Karlie Kloss Says, “Fuck Me”

[youtube mgMx894Jbdo 638 360]A hot bunch of the fashion industry's leading female stylists, photographers, models, and artists have put together a series of videos called Fashion Fetish, and they're releasing a video per week from now until June. Their first offering: a dark and sensual piece featuring Karlie Kloss in a bunch of slinky outfits and stockings titled, "Fuck Me." Quick note: we will do whatever Karlie tells us.

Call this lazy blogging if you will, but we can't explain the Fashion Fetish project anywhere near as eloquently as its creators do:

If, historically speaking, a fetish is a manufactured object which has magical powers, or one that people are irrationally devoted to, fashion is a veritable fetish-factory of 'It' shoes, 'Now' bags, and garments that magically propose to make your life indefinably better. On a less abstract level, fashion has been obsessed with sexual fetishism for centuries. The subtle constraint of the corset, the snugly-gloved hand, a shiny boot of leather - all staples of the well-dressed man or woman, and equally the well-equipped Sado-Masochist. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Pandora's Box of fashion fetish was blown apart - from Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's proposal of 'rubberwear for the office' in their seminal London boutique SEX, to Gianni Versace's sanitised 'Bondage Chic' of 1992, to the power of John Galliano's 'Sado-Maso' haute couture collection for Christian Dior in 2000, designers articulated the sexual peccadilloes of a select few across the international catwalks. It's fetish as fashion.

Fashion Fetish hands the power entirely to female fashion professionals, asking them to address the notion of Fashion Fetishand examining their individual visions of women. In contrast with Selling Sex, which reimagines the female relationship with sex, Fashion Fetish focuses on a woman's relationship with clothing. Although as fashion historian Anne Hollander has asserted, the nude in art always wears 'The fashion of her time' - fashion's influence can be felt across the naked flesh, her body as 'fashioned' as a corseted ball-gown. Dressed or undressed, this project offers a clear field, a blank canvas and an open mind to a selection of some of the most important women working in fashion today - designers, stylists, models and image-makers - inviting them to present their own interpretation of Fashion Fetish.

All we can add is that we don't often put SFW videos on this website, but "Fuck Me" stirs us in deep, secret places, so we had to share it with you.

· Fashion Fetish (showstudio.com)