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The Pirelli calendar’s bringing sexy back – but is it actually sexy?
In this week’s newsletter: Stars such as John Boyega have stripped off for racy shots, but insiders wonder how it lands in the post #MeToo era
Launched on Tuesday and featuring celebrities including John Boyega, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hunter Schaferand Simone Ashley, it is the latest calendar by an Italian tyre company that, for all its flaws, has become an unlikely cultural bellwether. Green who has previously captured covers for Vogue and i-D magazine, says he was inspired by the 1994 calendar, shot by Herb Ritts, in which 1990s supermodels Kate Moss and Cindy Crawford frolicked naked on a beach. Michaela Stark, a visual artist and couturier who creates pieces that challenge beauty norms, as well as briefly helping to engineer a body-positive rebrand for the thin-centric lingerie company Victoria’s Secret last year, picks holes with this idea of control on social media.
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