Provocative / Offensive Ads #1

[Spike413]

OMG that CK ad is INFAMOUS. Seriously, some of the most controversial fashion advertising ever.

 

[katherine]

I kinda laughed when the actress refused to smile and was like "I smile with my eyes."

 

[aaron95]

hahahha and also when the other girl refused to dance but OMg that was SO DAMN creepy if I was in a deep sadness by watching that clip I would have committed suicide hahahahaha

 

[JeanAvril]

Is it weird that I loved the commercials?

OT, but is there another thread like this but focusing on editorials?

 

[aaron95]

I dunno but it would be interesting to have one like that!!

 

[icelynn]

It's so surprising to me that people don't mind the Tom Ford ad which exploits women so much, but get totally "creeped out" by some guy with a camera asking people questions. Doesn't make much sense to me x/

 

[aaron95]

Well I said the tom ford ad is REALLY vulgar of course I consider that one more offensive than the CK one.

 

[JeanAvril]

I just thought the Tom Ford ads were stupid. How does having a cologne bottle on someone's vagina and butthole make you wanna buy it? It just makes me think that the cologne smells like vagina and butthole and who really wants to buy something that smells like that? Just my thoughts. Sorry if its innapropriate.

 

[Spike413]

The CK ad evokes child p*rn*gr*phy, which is why it was so controversial when it came out, even the print ads (which were basically just stills from the videos) were controversial. It's got this whole suburban sexual predator vibe to it, an older man "videotaping" very young looking models in a seedy looking room.....The funny thing about it is that there isn't anything obviously sexual about it. There's no nudity, no mention or depiction of sex, the models are obviously of age (one of the guys even said he was 20), and yet people found, and clearly still find it very provocative. It's funny what your mind can do, no?

The Tom Ford one is just a closeup of a crotch. There's nothing lurking beneath the surface, nothing disturbing going on, it doesn't stir any feelings of discomfort or provocation. It's just nudity.

Which of those two things is more offensive?

 

[nyc_art_style]

the more and more i think about the tom ford ads the more i like them.

 

[iluvjeisa]

A long and proud history of pedo-chic it is - Brooke Shields at 15/16.

 

[daniellat]

i cant believe Calvin Kleins video. i cant see how that vide can make me wanna buy Cks. Its disgusting, its disturbing and its boring! The ones with Brooke shields piss me off, i hate girls dressed up like women when you can clearly see they are like 12 years old. makes me think about Taxi Driver...hate it

 

[papa_levante]

I can barely understand the appeal of the commercials.
They are awful but they are merely for their time.

 

[icelynn]

I really don't get how the videos stir up so much. The actors made it clear that they were over 18 and the questions weren't sexual at all were they??? A perfume bottle on someone's crotch is a little more offensive to me. I don't want to see a close up of someone's photoshopped, lubed up crotch for any reason. And why is the perfume bottle there? It's pointless really and it makes me think "women=materialistic" because the very thing that makes her a woman is being covered by a material thing in a direct way.

 

[bun-bun]

Both the CK and Tom Ford ads are equally disturbing to me. The CK ads definitely have that pedo aura to them, even if the actors state they are adults (and not all of them do). For one, they LOOK like children, and the whole set is reminiscent of auditions: someone comes in, plays up for the camera, and is judged by others (in this case an unidentified older deep-voiced man who clearly has power over them by the way he asks them questions which they in turn have to answer.) And second, he asks some pretty intrusive questions.

And the Tom Ford ad is atrocious. Placing a bottle of perfume by a woman's genital area definitely evokes a "toy" feel for the perfume bottle.

 

[xmodel citizen]

Ew, those CK ads are sick. It's like cheap, exploitative p*rn. It reminds me of that infamous scene in "Fame" lol

 

[mkd1187]

I thought the CK reminded me of seedy, amateur sex audition tapes. Not child-p*rn/pedophilia, but just a general amateur exploitation. Not to defend it, but I didn't get the same vibe.

The Tom Ford ads I find pseudo-trying-to-be-shocking-to-sell-post-Gucci. Even tho when I saw them I thought "Tom! Since when do you like Vag**a*?"


(Not like I do but whatevs)

Still love the YSL one =D

 

[daniellat]

Ew, those CK ads are sick. It's like cheap, exploitative p*rn. It reminds me of that infamous scene in "Fame" lol

thats exactly what i thought!

 

[Andymoon]

the one with David Beckam showing his bulge. So vulgar.

 

[mkd1187]

the one with David Beckam showing his bulge. So vulgar.

AGREED!! I taped the ad right above my bed - and I do things to it I can't post here.

So vulgar!