Another great discovery through Trendland’s Submit site – the realistic paintings of Anna Halldin-Maule. These beautiful and provocateur photo-realistic oil on canvas paintings are based on photographs Anna has taken. Read the full story

We saw it first in the June issue of of Wired UK, but it didn’t take long before fashion caught up with the buzz of this interactive, scratch-off cover. For the last Issue of V Magazine (66), which just hit stands today, the magazine is offering 5 different covers with limited-edition scratch-off V’s only available online and limited to 1000 copies per model. Sexy just got sexier with “The Sexy Body Issue”, featuring 50 of the sexiest bodies in the world.
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Following the growing success of sexy, porn-chic magazines like Jacques Magazine, here is the last one to date: Nude Paper Magazine. “Nude Paper is an art magazine for centerfold enthusiasts. Nude Paper is a fashion magazine for the under-dressed and oversexed.
Nude Paper is for photographers and artists who believe in nudity being more than just plain old nakedity.”

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Why do you need photographers when you can shoot yourself !? We introduced you to this concept a while ago with Elle Muliarchyk‘s creative self portraits . Here its  young Belorussian photographer Yulia Gorodinski who has a great collection of self portraits (a little bit more sexy).

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Sex Sells! and we know that!  The use of nude women to promote a product is not going to go out of fashion. But does sex really sell? Not so sure.

Studies have shown that the sexier the ad, the less the brand is remembered. Then why still use the sexual imagery in advertising?

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I just stumbled over the “sexy-fashion” portfolio of Carlos Nunez. A Los Angeles based photographer, who shoots Los Angeles hipster chics. Nothing too extraordinairy here, but I like his lighting, his retouching, his model choices and the styling is pretty good as well (when there is a stylist).

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