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Steven Meisel’s Fabulous Fakes

If while thumbing through the November issue of W you stumbled upon some peculiar advertisements, such as Linda Evangelista hawking a shampoo, that’s because scattered throughout the magazine are nine completely phony ads—each photographed by Steven Meisel and styled by W’s Edward Enninful—starring a who’s who of pop culture today.

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Wanting to create an image that was just plain naughty, the team conceived this lingerie ad, which features model Karen Elson surrounded by a cast of naked and submissive male models dolled up in diamond jewels and sporting reddened bottoms—the latter courtesy of makeup artist Pat McGrath. “Underwear in itself is so sexy,” explains Enninful. “We wanted to push the idea, to really make it shocking.”

Elson wears Agent Provocateur custom suede and satin lingerie set, agentprovocateur.com. Falke stockings, $34, shopbop.com; Tom Ford shoes, $870, at Tom Ford, New York, 212.359.0300.
November 2011
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