Calendar Oliviero Toscani at Pitti Uomo 2011, the scandal by its Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather

Fashion calendar and calendars in 2011: never hang on the walls of your house one year, 12 shares intimate portray women without veils, 12 pictures of female pubic hair "natural", to be precise? I'll have promised in recent days, and here we are back to talk about what is meant this 79th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo.

The undersigned is convinced that this event in Florence in 2011 will be remembered more for his scandals than for the real fashion news that the marks made in Italy exposed brought on to the next fall / winter 2011-2012 for him one of these I have already mentioned - that of Jesus of Cantarelli fashion - but for me the top step of the podium is always for him, the great - and unpredictable - photographer Oliviero Toscani.

Who does not remember his shock campaigns devoted to AIDS or to love, those by Benetton? Either adv with the anorexic model Isabelle Caro, who has spoken of his death a few days ago? Within the meetings of Pitti Immagine Uomo Thursday, January 13, in a panel discussion titled "Debate on the Forces of Nature, on the Male meeting" held at the Stazione Leopolda 18, Alcatraz area, Florence, Tuscany has unveiled its new schedule developed for the Consortium Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned.

What then will be attached and distributed on newsstands with the monthly Rolling Stone. What's so special? We say that is 100% natural leather ... The timing Oliviero Toscani has in fact unleashed a veritable media uproar and did turn up their noses at many: besides, could not expect this because it portrays 12 "poses" of 12 models - say - from the hips down and as a mother made them! In short: a nude art, yes, but perhaps a bit 'too explicit.

It is not slow to the accusation by the Committee for Equal Opportunities of the City Council of Florence, who described the project as art and fashion, which is why it has already been called for the withdrawal from the market. At this point, could not refrain from saying its also Carlo Antonelli, director of Rolling Stone, which distributes the monthly calendar (which, I remind you, twelve months as an initiative to promote the advertising and editorial point of view): For As for me, Antonelli has a point, though, with a schedule like that, it's easy to end nell'oltraggio public decency.

But what do you think wins the right to freedom of art and expression, or a complete education to the images in the pictures?

• Model from infamous anorexia ad dead at 28 (30/12/2010)
• Isabelle Caro: French Anorexia Model Dies at 28- Photo (29/12/2010)
• French Model Who Modeled for Anti-Anorexia Ads Dies (30/12/2010)
• French model in anti-anorexia campaign dies (29/12/2010)
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Oliviero Toscani (wikipedia)