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September 19, 2006 by Jan Herman

Click to enlarge and see the entire 'State of Emergency' photo spread. [Photo copyright 2006 by Steven Meisel]A writer friend with a nose for cultural perversity wonders whether Vogue Italia had caught our attention, apropos yesterday’s item. “The latest issue threads the needle of glam and violence quite nicely,” he says. “Check out Steven Meisel’s photo shoot mixing supermodels and terrorists.”
So we did, and this is what else we saw:


Click to enlarge and see the entire 'State of Emergency' photo spread. [Photo copyright 2006 by Steven Meisel]Click to enlarge and see the entire 'State of Emergency' photo spread. [Photo copyright 2006 by Steven Meisel]


“Personally, I dig it,” our friend adds. “Then again, I wrote a text predicting that in the future terrorists may well have groupies — so you know where I’m coming from.” And if you don’t know, you might try “Terror Groupies” in Necrophilia Variations.

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