Garage Magazine launches with flutter of controversy

New publication Garage Magazine is causing a store before its September launch with it's provocative art-meets-fashion covers.
The magazine, spearheaded by former Pop editor Dasha Zhukova, also the partner of Russian billionaire Roman

Abramovich, features 23-year-old London-based illustrator Shauna Taylor on the cover with her vagina tattooed with an iconic Damien Hirst butterfly. Photographed by ex Dior Homme creative director, Hedi Slimane, the result is displayed beneath a strategically placed peel-away sticker à la Andy Warhol's iconic Velvet Underground album cover.

Tattoo artist Mo Coppoletta was handpicked by Hirst to ink the green-and-black tattoo which took two sessions to complete.

"I was hoping it might feel kind of nice, but it was probably the worst pain I have felt. I thought I was going to pass out" Taylor told the New York Post , before managing to put a positive spin on the whole experience:

The magazine, which will hit the shelves in September during fashion week, has three covers in total. Dinos Chapman and renowned fashion photographer Nick Knight created a puppet doll of fashion model Lily Donaldson playing with a dolls house inhabited by a puppet of Lily Donaldson, while Richard Prince's cover is a sketch of his cartoon smiling face tattoo.

Source: Daily Telegraph ©
Image: Garage Magazine Damien Hirst cover