Outside of a Zoolander situation, the fashion industry is about as dangerous as wearing plaid with stripes (that is, once you're past the production phase). Or that's what you might think if it's been a while since you've thumbed through a filthy Vogue at the dentist. Contemporary fashion advertising is all about beautiful lifeless women, usually lying in puddles of artfully applied grime and contorted into broken, corpse-like sprawls.

Lula

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Called the "The dog got the Barbie" pose by industry insiders.

It doesn't always bother with subtlety:

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Season 1 Walking Dead corpses were less messed up.

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Some of these images, like this shot from a series called Pretty Wasted, can be hard to distinguish from real crime scene photos. But damn, that jacket, though.

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Marc Jacobs: vomit- and blood-resistant!

This is such a widely accepted theme in fashion that America's Next Top Model ran an episode dedicated to it. The models were "killed" in different ways -- stabbed, mangled, electrocuted, etc. Real ... beautiful stuff?