Calvin Klein Underwear's Bloody Valentine

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Right now, Calvin Klein's New York image seems directly tied to the bare and sculpted posterior of model David Agbodji, but the brand's Soho underwear store is taking a different approach. Instead of gratuitous nudity, they're giving us gratuitous violence, with mannequins stabbed through the chest behind a giant, dripping heart. We assume those oversized spears are arrows from a massive and terrifying Cupid. The overall message? "Love hurts."
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