Kors, Klein, Karan Took My Baby Away

Demographics: The Population Hourglass [Fast Company]

Fast Company's 10th Anniversary Issue is out and while it has lots of interesting tech-bits (industrial-design students in Singapore are building a waterless, detergentless washing machine!), doo-data (in 2010 there will be a Wal-Mart for every 70,000 Americans!), and quick-quotes (permission-marketing guru Seth Godin said in April 1998, "I guarantee you that by the year 2000, Internet banner ads will be gone") to riffle through, what really caught my eye were a bunch of photographs by Phil Toledano. We interviewed him for Gawker a couple years ago and he generated the most feedback, mainly from straight women and gay men, than any of our snap-slappy profiles. (Sorry, he's married. To a woman.) I don't know where to place Phil on the portrait photo-plankton food chain among the sperm whalian Terry Richardson and head sturgeon Annie Leibovitz, but damn, can he shoot the shit out of a man in a baby-suit or what?

UPDATE. Phil replies with more background: "I couldn't believe they went for my babysuit idea - I have to give them a tip o' the cap for not (barely) flinching when I said, 'Demographics? Sure, it's going to be a shot of a guy wearing a suit made of babies.' As it turns out, I'm making a whole series of those now...wait until you see the 'boob poncho'..."