This is my favorite Araki ref, Tony Viramontes’s illustration for Nina Ricci. Shadow Dio’s core visual is based on a drawing of a woman in an evening gown.
The
illustration is in part fetish image – the exposed back and hourglass
shape – but in Araki’s interpretation, the object of your attention
looks back at you. And does it in a way where you can’t see his face.
You can’t quite see him but he sees you which is fabulous because it
inverts the power structure fetishism normally takes. And in SDC,
Shadow Dio’s power to see without being seen (he’s hidden throughout
most of the story) is a form of control.
You cannot ground DIO 