Pirelli Calendar 2003

Now, I am not a fashion hound, but I never miss the juice if I can. Surfing on MSN.com.sg, I found Pirelli's calendar [MSN has the exclusive rights for online distribution, by the way, not even www.pirelli.com can put the photos on their site] 2003, and there were many things that interested me.
Take a good long look at the guy in this pic. His name is Ajay, Ajay Lamas. Now, I am not sure if this guy has anything Indian in his veins, but I kept clicking more, and this is what i find. The dude in this pic is called Ganesh, Tomasino Ganesh. And I am like, whoa, what is this? When did so many Indians emigrate to Italy that they have kids who are 20 something now?

Well, more about the calendar now. I had seen Pirelli's calendar for the last year, and trust me, it wasn't babes clinging to hunks. It was dark, mysterious and a trifle scary, if I may. Kinda empowered the women, I think. See for yourself here. That was last years calendar. This year, Pirelli is back to nudes, nudes, nudes. The fashion world just cannot keep away from flashing skin, I guess. There are 26 photos this year, but MSN.com.sg posted only 12 of them, for obvious reasons. MSN.co.uk also has only 12 photos. Pirelli releases their calendars in London every year, but the British cannot seem to stomach nudity, eh? Ah, but the Italians aren't averse to nudity, are they? So, I go to MSN.co.it, and click on Calendario Pirelli 2003, and there is a topless Yamila Diaz Rahi on the frontpage of the calendar. So also do MSN.de and MSN.fr

OK, so some photos were indeed in bad taste. I mean, I was like ugh, this shouldn't be on a fashion calendar.

Now, I had been bunching all Europeans together as a people till not in the recent past, you know, firangs et al....but now it seems that the British and everything they have touched has developed this hypocritical outlook. I mean, MSN.co.uk has censored the images, so has MSN.com.sg. MSN.com and MSN.co.in don't even talk about it. Maybe these people are afraid that a dozen or so nude photos of models most people gawk at anyway [don't tell me you weren't gawking at Heidi Klum in Spin City] are going to make people in their country lose their morality or something. Or maybe it's just that Singaporean and British people just don't know what fashion is, and American and Indian people either don't want to know or have their own ideas about it. I can forgive the Americans and the Indians for trying to break new ground and all, [if that's the case] but the British and the Singaporeans have no excuse. And they are talking about promoting Singapore as a centre for artistic development. Tsk tsk...

PS: Observe anything thing, the guys aren't nude. Thankfully.