Richardson, Diesel, and a Room Full of Good Decisions

Terry Richardson made a nude calendar, and thank god it isn’t of himself. Diesel—a jeans company, apparently also in the business of bare skin—commissioned it, and the lineup includes Charlotte Carey, Stella Maxwell, and Karley Sciortino, better known as the writer behind Slutever. I have a genuine soft spot for Sciortino. Something about watching someone whose writing you actually enjoy strip down for Richardson’s lens feels like a strange loyalty test, and she passed it in the most direct way possible.

What naked bodies have to do with selling jeans is a question Diesel has presumably considered and decided doesn’t matter. They make jeans; they also make calendars. Both are, in their way, about what a body looks like when something is either on it or off it. The logic holds if you don’t press it.

I’d tack it to a wall. January through December, no complaints.