Punk'd!

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If you get a funny feeling while flipping through the ads in this month's issue of W magazine, don't worry, you're not crazy: the November issue features nine fake ads shot by fashion photographer extraordinaire Steven Meisel. Intended as a satirical "art project" to reveal the tired aesthetic of the fashion advertising industry, it's the subtle but over-the-top detail that ultimately give away the ads as phonies ? our favorite example being the spank marks on the exposed posteriors of Karen Elson's male harem in the "Tantrum" ad. [The New York Times]