Is it just me, or is this link not working? I can't get it to play.

works fine for me...

I thought is was a gag bit at first. It appears to be real. Sheesh.

first response: un-fucking-believable.
And not in a good way.

PS. It turns out he's a fake designer, I think.

jrav:

It requires Quicktime. (It even crashes VLC.) The direct link to the file is:

http://208.116.9.205/10/graphics/movies/movies_remington.mov

As far as fashion goes, however, I think this is probably a healthier brand of crazy than most, and I'm not entirely unhappy to see a counterweight to the "pubic hair is EVIL and must be shaved" meme.

I agree with Zed although I'm confused by the video. How can you grow pubic hair like that? That has to be extensions as I didn't touch mine for decades and it never grew "long".

Am I being gulable?

i thouhgt this was a joke...a bad one, but a joke nonetheless...

um.

huh.

I honestly can't tell if this is for real or a joke. I'm leaning toward joke, just because the way he was *stroking* her pubic hair... I gotta be honest, I was minorly skeezed out.

Although, as a joke, I gotta say, it's pretty damn funny :0)

dittos to Zed. They may take it a bit too far (peacock feathers seem impractical, not to mention...well...they're peacock feathers, neh?) but in general, I think it's great that these women (and the gay men sculpting their hair) have the confidence to walk down a catwalk with nothing but a necklace and freaky eyelashes on. I'm confused as to how they got that one woman's to grow so long...

Maybe this will help hetero guys realize that pubic hairs' sole purpose in life is not to get in their way, that they might be part of a woman's beautiful body.

Stephane may just be doing this for shock value (how else are you going to get shorter than last year's "skirts"?), but women's bodies are beautiful. End of story.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the first time I saw this, a few months back, it was a spoof, and in the context of an ad for Remington hair grooming products.

Though it would be interesting if fashion embraced pubic hair...

It is a joke.

thanks zed.

thanks zed.

Just to clarify what's already been suggested, it's part of an ad campaign for Remington. From what I gather, the line "It's what's on the outside that counts" is the tagline for the campaign.

I was shown this a while ago by a friend of mine [he works in advertising] and I still can't work out my opinion of it. Whilst it seems to give a 'pubic hair is OK!' message, it's actually just trying to be absurd and, to a degree, shocking and the "It's what's on the outside..." tagline sucks.

Speaking as someone who's done some costume design, that peacock feather thing couldn't have been easy to do, for the same reason that really realistic wings are difficult to do. I have to give the costume designers (such as the costumes were) points for virtuosity.

Kind of an odd thing to use/waste all that talent on, though.

Yeah, I assume Remington or someone else commercial is behind it. The technical production values are very high both in the video and on the http://www.stefanemonzoen.com/ website so whoever is behind it spent a pile of dough putting it together.

Though I sort of assume Remington is behind it, the website is registered to a German battery company and there's an image at one point where the "designer" opens his shirt to show that his own chest hair as been waxed in the shape of a winged horse that looks a lot like somebody's corporate logo but I'm not sure who's.

Googling around I found a reference to another conceptual/commercial art piece called Stephane Monzon's RedCold®, with a photo of an inedible-looking cold hot dog. So Monzon may be another artist's nom de plume.

Whatever the producer's intention the piece drives home the point that pubic grooming has fallen into the realm of fashion where not only is there pressure to groom but no matter how we choose someone (who's not a partner) is going to be out there telling us we should or shouldn't be doing it (we've always had that) but also that whatever we choose we're doing it wrong.

figleaf

Aw, did y'all see the Lisa Kline storefront with the mudflap silhouette woman in the first few shots?

I like Feministing's much better.

I'm already wary about clicking the link because the status bar tells me it's a Kontraband link. I don't like Kontraband because they have SOOO many ad links on their site, many of which are a slippery slope to porn and spyware. But alas, I must click to see what you're talking about...

OH good, somebody provided a hotlink, so I don't have to support Kontraband. Great...

Wow. That is ridiculous. They're going on and on about exposing pubic hair as the new hottest thing, but surprise surprise, all their bodies outside of their pubis and their head are completely bald, waxed, shaved, plucked, etc. Want to liberate, but only one piece at a time, eh Remington?

Guys, I think this may be a joke...I am researching right now whether it is possible to grow two-foot long pubic hair (the designer (?) mentioned "oils" which may have something to do with it). I will post my results as soon as I have them. Sit tight.

Um, this may be a joke and I may be a freak-show, but it is possible to grow very long pubic hair...

I don't know how common it is. I have only dared to ask one friend if her hair grew long if she didn't cut it. I didn't ask anyone else after she said, "Wow, you should join a circus."

TMI, but I didn't start it!

Maybe this will help hetero guys realize that pubic hairs' sole purpose in life is not to get in their way ...

Ding-ding-ding! Don't laugh, but I never realized that was a reason for the patriarchy objecting to a nice glorious succulent long bush (I mean, they like long "feminine" head hair, why not long "feminine" pubic hair?). I thought it was something about how the only women worthy of being sex-receptacles were those young ones who may not have developed full bush yet. But, really, the "all-access all-the-time no-barriers-for-my-mighty-hotdog" explanation makes much more sense to me.

If pubic hair can grow so long if you don't trim it, how come guys pubic doesn't grow that long? I don't know any guys who cut their pubes.

sojourner - you mean in general, or ye mean me? I probably don't know anybody *else* (male or female) that HAS to cut their pubic hair (I don't ask) - though I do know males & females that do some scary whole-body grooming. Just saying that, even if this is a joke, for SOME folks, it may be possible. I have never found out just how long it can get (for me) as the circus freak thing didn't have appeal (actually, as it gets too tangly). Then again, there have been circus freaks in the family...

No I mean in general. I cut it too. So maybe I am also a circus freak?! I cut it when it gets long enough to get in the way of, you know, access to the clit. But that's hardly an inch long. So I don't know.

sojourner, an inch seems short to me. I am getting very close to my personal comfort boundaries (sorry), but just so you know, I am talking about something quite a bit longer. I honestly would skip the whole grooming thing if I could, but >4" and well, you understand. Yes, I am serious. And I am bowing out here as I have embarassed the HELL out of myself!

There are a lot of theories about the supposed 'purpose' (very inaccurate evolutionary term) of pubic hair, most of which fly in the face of most people's preferences and common sense. Such as claims that pubic hair is purely for presentation, like parsley. Probably not, ok? And as tink points out, it sure as hell gets in the way of the clitoris (both for the women themselves and me), as well as the entire vulva, which I'm sure makes masturbation and cunnilingus more difficult than it should be. And it doesn't help the dryness situation by gathering heat inside our clothes.

You have to face the facts: a thick bush, male or female, filters a lot of crotch sweat, and with it, pheromones. That's it. End of story. If you keep things clean, it's supposed to smell oddly alluring down there. Thanks to pants and underwear, however, that is well taken care of even for smooth, shaved genitalia. It's officially useless unless you're a nudist, so get rid of it, I say. Besides, like the rest of our bodies (minus the top of our heads), don't most of us prefer things be smooth, and dare I say it, juicy looking? :P

sojourner, if you just ask any housewife or janitor whose had to clean toilets, guys are losing pubic hairs due to shedding due to friction everywhere they go. There's stray hairs in our underwear, pants, sticking to the rims of nasty public toilets and men's urinals, it's on the bed after sex, it's a good part of the hair that gathers around your shower drain, et cetera, etc.

Is the video a joke or serious? Hard to tell. I'm undecided.

I disagree, Aerik, that pubic hair makes masturbation and cunnilingus "difficult." How so? I don't see that it gets in the way of the clitoris. Use your hands to move it out of the way. It's never presented a problem for me.

There is another important function of pubic hair - lubrication. Not all lubricants are wet, oily substances. Think roller bearings. Would you rather pet a hairless cat or a longhair? Skin on skin can chafe. Of course, one can apply liquid lubricants to solve the problem. ;-)

Pubic hair is a sign of sexual maturity. I don't want my woman to look like a young girl. I find the shaved look to be creepy and unnatural. I consider "brazilians" to be misogynistic. I hear they are painful. But then, woman submit themselves to much pain in the name of beauty and procreation, don't they?

Who decides that a particular body hair is unwanted? Who decides that we're focusing on darker, thicker body hair? Why can't we accept the natural state of a woman's body? There's fine hair all over a woman. I have no right to dictate to others what they do with their bodies. If I zoom in with a microscope, it all looks pretty much the same emerging from the epidermis, whether it's the scalp or the mons venus.

Aerik, Speak for your self. I don’t want everywhere to look smooth and juicy whatever that means.
Tink didn't say it gets in the way of the clitoris. I said it does when it gets to long. I like my pubic hair. I like how it looks. I also like it there when I touch myslef. As a matter of fact I find it to be very womanly. So does my partner. I am not gonna get rid of it.

Wow, Aerik. Generalize from your personal preferences much?

You don't like the way it looks so you dismiss "presentation"? Well, I like the way it looks, and I've never had any complaints from those who've seen mine.

The idea that pubic hair gets in the way of masturbation? I...don't get it. It's not like there's a labyrinth down there. It's a pretty sensitive area. I've never had a problem finding my own clitoris (why look--there it is! In exactly the same place it's been for the past few decades!).

And...we all like things smooth? Not so much, really. I've never disliked men's chest hair, for example.

i figured it was a hair extension.

Even if it is a joke, some poor fool is going to take this seriously as an ode to pubic hair on the female body. I just have one question: would this be nearly as "artistic" if it was done by Lane Bryant's line of models? This is joke regardless of the intention of the designer.