Marcio & Marcos Patriota play out incest for Terry Richadson’s Philipp Plein campaign

Terry Richardson is one of those individual who’s notoriety far exceeds his talent.  Case and point:  Richardson is the culprit behind the new Philipp Plein Spring/Summer 13 campaign ads.  There is little to be found by way of original or enticing about the ads.  So what does Richardson do?  Throw in a little incest to get media attention.

And so you don’t go confusing his “work” with someone more talented than him, his attempt at ingenuity is to follow it up with ingesting his likeness into said campaign so that you KNOW this was at his hands.

Wow!  Speak about being overpaid and under-worked.

We admit that getting the smoking hot duo Marcio and Marcos Patriota to play out an incestuous make-out embrace in a photo has a tinge of hotness to it.  We cannot lie.  But once you get past the visual of what is otherwise considered a crime against nature there is little else to the photo that gets you motivated.

Let’s face it, they are wearing far too much for the visual to stand alone and not require some self-visualization.  Gucci this ain’t!  And then good luck recalling who’s damn collection started you off down a path that would end with you wanting to wash your thoughts out with soap.

So what does Richardson follow it up with?  Nothing short of throwing on the clothe and ingesting his person into his own campaign spread as a cameo.  Like he was Jon Favreau in Iron Man!  WTF.

Were this coming from the likes of Pierre et Gilles or David LaChappelle or even Bruce Weber – the horror of this thought, as these named artists would far out measure the conceptualization of the campaign – we would likely be hollering ‘bravo!’  But with Richardson – it equals nothing more than self-grandeuring by a wanna-be celebrity who’s work is little more than mediocre.

Get off the tip Richardson.  Your material is not all that interesting and you, sir, are no model.  Go back to the “casting couch” endeavors that procured all your initial notoriety.  Allegedly.