Calvin Klein has always trafficked in high and low — in classic all-American athleticism, shot through with an untethered primal lust.
Some other Calvin Klein ads fail to have the same friction, the right wrongness.
There are faintly fascistic undertones in the form Calvin Klein valorizes.
(How surprising is it that Calvin Klein has worked with the estate of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who used his models to engage the viewer sexually?)
?” — as though a touch of discomfort isn’t precisely what creates a hit Calvin Klein ad.
Persons:
“ I’m, I’m, ”, Calvin Klein, Brooke Shields, Mark Wahlberg —, Marky Mark, peekaboo, —, Justin Bieber, Jacob Elordi’s, Kate Moss’s, Calvin Klein valorizes, Leni Riefenstahl’s “, sleaze, Dominic Fike, Travis Fimmel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wahlberg, Bieber, White, Jamie Dornan’s, Jeremy Allen, Ayo Edibiri, incredulously —
Organizations:
Stone, Golden Globe
Locations:
The, Chicago