'The Discipline of Fashion' | Vogue Italia September 2011 - Stella Tennant by Steven Meisel

The Discipline of Fashion

Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Karl Temper
Hair: Guido
Make -Up: Pat McGrath

Model: Stella Tennant

Hot on the heels of the incendiary slave earrings blunder, Vogue Italia insists on continuing to use shock tactics.

The glossy magazine's much-anticipated September shoot is a dark and Gothic affair.

Featuring Stella Tennant, the 'Avant-Garde' themed styling is an ode to Ethel Granger, a lover of corsets and facial piercings who tightened her midriff into epically tiny proportions.

Photographed by Steven Meisel, Ms Tennant wears a dark Prada gabardine coat and sports a gypsy-style nose ring as she holds scissors aloft and ready to cut. Her waist is cinched to a freakish 13-inches.

The British model even appears to sport a lip stud - a small pearl that mimics Granger's experiments with facial piercing.

The shoot has a Tim Burton style darkness about it as Ms Tennant is transported to another era, her dark stained lips and cold expression adding to the eerie feel.

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