Calvin Klein Window Displays
Manhattan, New York;
January 27, 2010
Whoa. These are some seriously suggestive windows over on Madison. The image of David Agbodji on window 5 is currently raising controversy over at Houston Street (it’s replaced Eva Mendes on the huge billboard overlooking the intersection at Lafayette). Window 4, though, showing the juxtaposition of the hands unseen nude window decal against the in-store mannequin on its knees with its hands tied behind his back is much more suggestive. Violent even. I gotta imagine that they’re catching some neighborhood flack for these.
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When I first saw those Calvin Klein Windows, I was also shocked, not the nudity, but at the fact that a fancy store on Madison on the Upper East Side would have the audacity to display such blatantly homo-erotic-ish window decals. However, I welcome this blast of agressive male sexual energy in a stuffy neighborhood where the focus usually goes to the female form.
Dude, you’re just a horn dog.
But seriously… Yes, the focus usually goes to the female form but not to this degree of “agressive [sic]…sexual energy.” Perhaps we’re at a point where it’s safer to be homoerotic rather than heteroerotic. Or perhaps CK is bored with the Eva Mendes flap and decided to capitalize on it and take it to a whole other level.