Leather masks and rear cleavage: Ludovic de Saint Sernin makes New York Fashion Week debut
By Jacqui Palumbo and Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — In 1990, photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe led to obscenity charges for a Cincinnati museum. His depictions of men in laced-up leather, collars and belted jockstraps caused a national firestorm by daring to show the bare eroticism of queer men against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis.
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