| I did this shoot for Vice Magazine’s 2008 fashion issue. I’d wanted to do an anti-fashion shoot for some time, one in which all the clothes were worn incorrectly or used in a manner considered offensive. For months, a post-it with "shove expensive clothes up someone’s butt" sat on my monitor. The editor at Vice liked the idea. I knew that we’d never get a model from a regular agency to do this kind of shoot, so I asked them to hire Sasha Grey, a beautiful L.A. porn girl, to model for it. I’d worked with her before and knew that I wouldn’t have to explain every shot to her—I knew she would think the idea was funny. | 
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Richard Kern
Richard Kern, Vice Magazineââ¬â¢s 2008 Fashion Issue, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.I did this shoot for Vice Magazine’s 2008 fashion issue. I’d wanted to do an anti-fashion shoot for some time, one in which all the clothes were worn incorrectly or used in a manner considered offensive. For months, a post-it with "shove expensive clothes up someone’s butt" sat on my monitor.
The editor at Vice liked the idea. I knew that we’d never get a model from a regular agency to do this kind of shoot, so I asked them to hire Sasha Grey, a beautiful L.A. porn girl, to model for it. I’d worked with her before and knew that I wouldn’t have to explain every shot to her—I knew she would think the idea was funny. No big labels would give us clothes when they found out who the model was, but the stylist managed to come up with a good vintage assortment.
