Onion photos: True or Farce?

Pub date September 26, 2007
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From artice: 14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid

By Paula Connelly

Ever wonder what you’re out of work actor and artist friends have been up to? On the cover of this week’s Onion is a picture of one of my dear friends from college! And no, she’s not unemployed. She works for the Onion.

Well played, Onion. American Apparel ads and the sub-culture that they infer are disturbing. (Like the ones with girls spread eagle in the back of a taxi cab, for example.) My favorite line from the article would have to be:

“Before I knew it, I was squatting on the floor in this humid room with a camera pointed at my crotch,” said model Gabrielle, whose image can be found on the back page of this newspaper.