It’s a toss-up between the WTC Memorial Luggage Tags and the slideshow by Italian Vogue which puts the Fash in Fascist. Both via Gawker.

Zulkey, in a roundup of the very worst 9/11 souvenirs (scrunchies???) nominates these luggage tags:

Because people especially need to be reminded at the airport about the World Trade Center.

But I think outdoing even that in the Tasteless scale is the Italian Vogue photofeature called State of Emergency echoing the infamous Abu Ghraib images, but replacing the unphotogenic tortured Iraquis with models in the latest from Gucci, D&G, and Versace. Thank you so very much for that. Even the normally unphasable Gawker choked on this one:

In a seamlessly perfect melding of 9/11 paranoia and Fashion Week zeitgeist, may we present this slideshow in Vogue Italia. Entitled “State of Emergency,” the Steven Meisel pictorial mostly features models getting harshly abused by uniformed security thugs. Each shot is more jaw-dropping than the last (be sure to note the nicely animated boot crushing the larynx of the lady in red). Scans may be viewed here if you can’t see the slideshow. Sure, there are a few pics of the models (now indoctrinated?) undergoing weapons training, but really. At least now you’ll know all the hottest couture for getting reamed across the hood of a police cruiser.