There's no denying that these images from the oil spill editorial in Vogue Italia's August 2010 issue are beautiful.
The 24 pages of Kristen McMenamy, shot by Steven Meisel, are realistic interpretations of images of injured, oiled animals that have inundated the news media since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April.
As beautiful and provocative as they are, we can't help but feel uneasy.
Glamorizing this recent ecological and social disaster for the sake of "fashion" reduces the tragic event to nothing more than attention-grabbing newsstand fodder.
