This year, tire maker Pirelli chose Karl Lagerfeld to do their famously sexed-up calendar, and it came out pretty. Last year the calendar was directed and shot by Terry Richardson (Pirelli 2010, video), and that came out weird and obscure and still NSFW. What is most bizarre to me, is that Lagerfeld’s theme for the 2011 calendar is Greek Mythology – which last time I checked, had a lot of voluptuousness to it.
If you think Karl’s thin models are thinner than your average goddess, then do know that Karl thinks you’re just fat and jealous. Lagerfeld hates fat people. Or rather, he prefers diet-of-Daisani-water-and-tissues-thin people. With a frothy passion. A nonfat passion with which he would call us all big fatty oinky pigs upon sight. He, who it should be noted has a personal chef, has never spared his queeny venom when it comes to models over a size 1. So take the new Pirelli calendar with a big grain of salt – but make sure you chew it and spit it back out so you don’t get any extra calories.
Anyway, the video is above, and you can see the whole set of Pirelli 2011 calendar images on Jalopnik. I am not linking to Pirelli because there is no point: the (few) front-facing images are edited and more requires a signup.
Maybe Pirelli is still in the mythological era of trying to do marketing with gated content.
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have you seen the the Eizo X-Ray Pin-Up Calendar? http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/sexy-skeletons-in-high-heels-photography-inspiration/
The 1988 Pirelli calendar (Barry Lategan with Gillian Lynne) has a man in every month. Admittedly he’s a prop, entirely covered in a black bodysuit with a tyre tread motif on it and he’s there for contrast with the female dancers. But that’s the first appearance of a man except for surfers in the background of the small frames in the 1969 calendar.
Source: The Pirelli Calendar Album, The First Twenty-Five Years. ISBN 1 85145 3490.
Interesting theme for the Pirelli calendar, it was not easy to pick out who each model was supposed to represent other than maybe Athena.
Also correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the first time a Pirelli calendar shoot has had male models in it? Seems out of place, kind of like Playboy featuring a male nude spread just for a change.
Still the best Pirelli calendar IMO is the 1991 edition.
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