Battered and bruised a fashionable look?

MTR in conversation with Waleed Aly

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Have you seen the recent bus “gang rape-inspired” photo shoot in India? Or Vogue Italia’s video showing a woman killed by an intruder in her house? Or the Bulgarian makeup ad showing bruised women with the tagline “Victim of Beauty”?

There appears to be a theme of fashion advertising increasingly using images of women being killed or tortured or violated in some way, usually by men.

What’s this all about?  Listen to the interview

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