Terry Richardson singled out by more outlets asking magazines to stop hiring him - Cele|bitchy
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Terry Richardson has been lurking in the forefront of fashion for many years now, but he’s recently come into the mainstream spotlight after his sketchy collaborations with Miley Cyrus. Since Miley’s receiving a ton of attention for her antics, Terry is naturally being recognized (and called out) as the (gross) guy who’s helping her shed her formerly wholesome image. If you’re not familiar with Uncle Terry, there’s a NSFW primer story at Jezebel that will help you understand why he is so revolting. The man is a predator who uses his status in the fashion industry to get young models to do all sorts of unspeakable things.
The problem isn’t that Terry specializes in “sexy” pictures. There are tons of photogs who push the envelope in that way. Ellen von Unwerth and David LaChapelle among them. Terry’s backstage dalliances take his “sexy” images to a whole (gross) new level. He exploits models who think they’re going to make it big by getting naked for him, and he loves it. The really awful thing about it is that tons of celebrities — including Nicole Kidman, Kate Moss, Cameron Diaz, Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan, Chloe Sevigny, Sofia Vergara, Norman Reedus, Jared Leto, and even Lena Dunham — do support him by posing for him either at magazine photoshoots or in his creepy home studio.
The outside world is starting to realize that Terry is a dangerous man. I was surprised at how The Mail called him out last week. Now the Financial Times has placed Terry (via HuffPo) on their sh-t list too: “The reality is, until editors stop using him for covers, until Hollywood stars stop picking him as a photographer or a videographer for their shoots, he’ll stay the way [he is].” There’s also a new petition at Change.org that asks fashion labels and magazines to stop hiring Terry: