Ivy Levan naked in Young, Sexy and Dead (allegedly 2023 – really 2010)

This black comedy is a low-budget satire of the fashion industry, shot in mockumentary style.

The title screen begins:

The most expensive fashion advertising campaign in history became the most controversial. All the video footage was destroyed, or so they thought. This film was assembled from recovered digital sources.

The film starts out with a young model having received her first big break as the fresh new face of a big fashion house. When she dies during a photo shoot, the creative people see no reason to abandon their campaign. They just keep dressing their model’s corpse in designer clothing and snapping away. They soon come to realize that she has just the look they’ve been seeking! They also appreciate the fact that she causes far fewer problems than a live model. She never refuses to do nudity, she never needs a break, and she never exhibits any diva traits. The basic premise is that the fashion industry loves the “anorexic, heroin chic” look so much that the recently deceased make the perfect models. Of course, corpses do have their own set of unique problems, like the foul stench and the bloating, but that’s nothing they can’t deal with. How, exactly? Well, I guess you’ll get the picture when I tell you that one of the characters is named, “Felix, the celebrity taxidermist.”

This film is dated 2023, but it was clearly filmed much earlier. I believe is it just a reworking of “Drop Dead Gorgeous” (2010), which I reviewed in 2011. It may even be the same film with a new title. I don’t remember the first one well enough to determine whether there have been any changes, but if there are, they are not significant. IMDb is (unwittingly, I guess) complicit in this ruse and lists the two films separately.

The videos include two other women (Sandra Luesse and Bridget King) who are seen naked briefly.

Ivy Levan is a successful pop singer. Here she is singing a duet with Sting (“Drive My Car”) on The Late Show with David Letterman (February 14, 2014).