July 16, 2011

NOVELTY | ANT Magazine

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-Top: The Amfi Yearbook of this years graduates. It is a magazine on it's on, filled with editorials and nice reads. Made under the leadership of Therese Östelius.
-Middle: ANT Magazine, available in bookstores throughout Europe.
-Bottom: My contribution to the magazine, a story about commodity fetish.


Each year the studnts of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) get a competitive assignment of creating their own magazine. The best magazine of the class will be published and distributed throughout Europe. This year ANT won and is already available in bookstores around the continent. It is a magazine that is all about different points of view and other ways to look at things. It is packed with inspiring images and articles.

I also contributed to Ant with an story about fetishism, commodity fatish to be exact, the fetish around material things, about unhealthy cravings for fashion buys.
For my story I spend a few hours at Dutch department store De Bijenkorf and observed the behavior of the ladies in the hosiery section.

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The first paragraph of my story:
Commodity Fetish

Her eyes glided across the shelves crammed with small plastic packages with promises inside. She scans the mannewuin legs hanging from the ceiling showing off sheer thigh highs. Left and right in the narrow alleyrs of the hosiery section women are fixated by the almost sexual images on the products. Sexual images without a face. Legs sitting on a bed with messed up sheets on which you can imagine what happened previously, flawless naked bodies wearing nothing but the tights. And even the more conservative ads for businesswomen in pencil skirts have a restricted fetish undertone. By looking at them you can almost hear the clicking of stilettos on a marble floor and the sound of nylon covered thighs rubbing against eachother underneath that tight pencil skirt.

*If you're interested in reading the whole thing, click on image below, then click on it again to enlarge it.

9 comments:

s said...

I didn't know this magazine... it's look interesting ;D



http://magmoiselle.fr

Bani said...

I am smitten with the article.

Johanne Marie Schack said...

Very very NICE blog you have! :-)

//Johanne - www.goldenfashiondreams.blogspot.com

Lina said...

ahh are u studying at amfi??
I applied there;)
love ur blog so much.. put in on my blogroll today;)

Anne said...

Nice!
I hope to find it in paris!

Tash said...

Excellent article! If you don't mind I'd really like to use it as a reference for my honors research paper.

Tash,
milkandmead.com

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Isabella Fanado said...

Even conservative businesswoman ads are not free from underlying fetishism. Talking about heels clicking and the sound of nylon-covered thighs only heightens the sensuality of the pictures making them so richly immersive.

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Frank Hudson said...

The story unfolds with the position of legs on a bed whose sheets are disheveled to make room for the viewer’s imagination about what happened before. Flawless bare skin only covered by leggings suggest an attraction that goes beyond mere fashion. Even more conservative advertisements featuring office women walking in pencil skirts carry something like a fetish, possibly the sound of stiletto heels hitting on marble and a gentle rubbing together of nylon wrapped thighs beneath tight pencil skirt.

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