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fashion, style, mode, vogue

At first it sounds like the old joke about the young woman who attends a costume ball in the altogether and announces that she’s Chile. Yes, it seems, nudity has invaded the precincts of fashion. And does this strike anyone as odd? Isn’t fashion primarily about, er, clothing? But let’s consult the zeitgeist for a second. Pornography is more mainstream now than it has ever been in the entire course of Western history. Today, every swinger in the land can hop online and within seconds get access to a bewildering range of images, from the explicit to the more explicit. Mere nudes can seem awfully bland by contrast. But then it may be that when the mainstream goes baroque, simplicity becomes the possession of an elite.

We’re also living in a time of sharply polarized attitudes toward such things as nudity and salty language, so this is a trend you may not have seen if you limit yourself to family publications, like this newspaper. But if