Provocative / Offensive Ads #1

[tania_rc]

I quite like the Sisley ads, it fits with their branding

 

[SomethingElse]

Sisley: The Ads online are fake
Let us be perfectly clear: Sisley had nothing to do with the "shocking" online ad campaign that we have reported on in recent days. The images of poor taste that have been circulating on the web and passed off as extracted images from an upcoming fall ad campaign for the brand, which is part of Gruppo Benetton, are completely fabricated. This raises some serious and disturbing questions: it is still unclear who was behind the circulation of these offensive and misleading images and what reasons he or she had for doing it.

fashionfm.it . published 15 February 2007

 

[WhydoIlovehim]

fashionfm.it . published 15 February 2007

...Isn't "shocking" kind of what Sisley ads are all about..? Or is that just the ones I've seen? They're probably bummed they didn't come up with it!

 

[mkd1187]

L.I.E. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242587/

 

[icelynn]

was that an ad?? ^^

 

[Northern Star]

^ Doubt it, I know they push the limits with the Sisley ads but I don't think they'd get away with that one.

 

[lola belle]

I feel guilty but I LOVE that sisley ad. because in all reality, they're not actually doing anything illegal it's up to you and how you percieve it

I must say I almost agree. I usually love Sisley ads, particularly the older ones, but they just get more and more gimmicky each season. The current ones seem to be almost self-deprecating because of how exaggerated they are, particularly the model's totally vacant, dead facial expression, and that image in and of itself really caught my eye and I quite enjoyed it. BUT THEN THEY HAD TO GO TOTALLY DESTROY IT. The whole "junkie" bit feels like a superfluous punch line here, and the heroin/fashioin connection seemed to just reinforce that redundancy ("and oh, by the way guys, here at Sisley we're making this REALLY GREAT reference to coke and heroin in our ads, in case you didn't notice the first time, isn't it great aren't we genius?"), and then they had to throw in the credit card and what looks like coke in it too. That sent the whole thing into "HI WE'RE NOT DESPERATE OR ANYTHING BUT LOOK! BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER! COKE! AREN'T WE SO SHOCKING? BUY OUR CRAP!" territory. And it makes me sad.

Gratuity can be done so well. It really can. And Terry and Co. seem to have lost touch of where the humour within their excess lies. Way to waste Lara, seriously.

 

[ZigZagLens]

I must say I almost agree. I usually love Sisley ads, particularly the older ones, but they just get more and more gimmicky each season. The current ones seem to be almost self-deprecating because of how exaggerated they are, particularly the model's totally vacant, dead facial expression, and that image in and of itself really caught my eye and I quite enjoyed it. BUT THEN THEY HAD TO GO TOTALLY DESTROY IT. The whole "junkie" bit feels like a superfluous punch line here, and the heroin/fashioin connection seemed to just reinforce that redundancy ("and oh, by the way guys, here at Sisley we're making this REALLY GREAT reference to coke and heroin in our ads, in case you didn't notice the first time, isn't it great aren't we genius?"), and then they had to throw in the credit card and what looks like coke in it too. That sent the whole thing into "HI WE'RE NOT DESPERATE OR ANYTHING BUT LOOK! BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER! COKE! AREN'T WE SO SHOCKING? BUY OUR CRAP!" territory. And it makes me sad.

as if this hasn't been done with other drugs (like alcohol, tobacco, even SSRIs) for ages. but anyway, how smart to people have to be to realize those coke ads were fake? I mean, don't you think Sisley would know how to spell "fashion"?

 

[joiedemode]

^It was wrong on purpose...fashioin is supposed to be like heroin.

 

[kissmesweet]

I mean, don't you think Sisley would know how to spell "fashion"?

Well said. I knew that they were fake already. Sisley does provocative and offensive, but they don't do stupid.

 

[guillermo]

`Provocative ''style'', ''visions'', ''art'' and more are a special part of life.

 

[alix*]

Can someone please explain the "Fashioin" pun please

 

[cuethepulse]

"Heroin"

 

[MissMagAddict]

source | wwd

TOM TOTALLY NUDE — AGAIN: What Tom Ford did five years ago for full-frontal male nudity in his ads for the M7 fragrance for Yves Saint Laurent, he's about to do for the opposite sex in the ones for Tom Ford for Men. Though the designer took a more demure approach in his original ad campaign for his new fragrance, he's decided to shock the masses once again, switching images shot by Marilyn Minter in April for racier photographs of a dewy woman's body taken by Terry Richardson. The photos range from tame to titillating — the most shocking being the Tom Ford for Men bottle wedged between a woman's glistening thighs, with the bottle barely covering her bare genitalia. "We loved the original Marilyn Minter images, but while on a shoot with [Richardson] in Milan, we decided that a sharper, more graphic approach clearly communicated the bold and provocative mood of the fragrance," said a spokeswoman for Tom Ford Beauty, a division of the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc.

 

[iluvjeisa]

How nifty, to take something so silicone looking - very befitting of this era

 

[BaroqueRockstar]

i think i'd be ok with those ads if they were shot by anyone except terry richardson. he's provocative, but i don't like his photography. not my style i guess.

 

[SomethingElse]

That Tom Ford ad is an exercise in aversion therapy!

 

[guillermo]

Now i'm curious..who's that girl...? ejemm.....the spot nude girl...ejemmm...

 

[icelynn]

That ad is so unoriginal. It's stupid.

 

[reese06]

Actually I think that the brand is very original for a luxury label such as Tom Ford. It gets your attention and will make most people who have never heard of Tom Ford, people who don't follow fashion closely, etc. know about this fragrance and the ad is quite memorable.