Provocative / Offensive Ads #1

[Plastic'sWife]

If The Last Supper can be done, nothing really suprises me after that....

*this thread makes me blush*

 

[saann]

I've seen that diesel ad but when I saw it the guy wasn't even wearing jeans.. has anyone else seen the one I'm talking about?

 

[saann]

another ck one ad similar to the one already posted.. and an ad for calvin klein jeans
from modelhommes forum

 

[The_Ida]

I think the CK ads are very pretty and kinda cute. It's just sex, how upsetting can that be anyway?

 

[fouroclock]

Source: graeme montgomery

 

[belletrist]

If The Last Supper can be done, nothing really suprises me after that....

*this thread makes me blush*

I don't see how the M+F G ad can be oh-my-gosh-oh-so-shoking

 

[yourbestfriend]

There are many ways to deal with the MJ images, here are my 3 cents...

1. The most immediate is that it is to some degree an affectation of 'blackface' which was born and bred here in the US and involved white theatrical performers (most famously Al Jolson) donning black grease paint or shoe polish to emulate black skin and exaggerate the mouth. Blackface facial expressions were usually buffoonish and cartoonish in order to play up degrading views of blacks at the time. Paired with racist jokes and skits, the effects were devestating. What's interesting is that Sasnal's expression is fairly aggressive and mistrustful, his body language defensive, slightly wounded.

2. The ads are obviously of some kind of process, his face becoming more and more clean. It thus becomes some kind of performance art. Sasnal also uses black in his art work to paint voids, gaps, spaces. He's just released his first book covering his work entitled Night Day Night, it could be some kind of play on that as well.

3. It could be an opinion on the lack of black faces in fashion advertising. Taking into account that blackface is authentically an American tradition, one could say that the affectation of it isn't out of sync with MJ's S/S 05 work. As a defense to critics who said his work the season before was too European, he developed a wholly American collection chock full of apple pie symbology: marching bands, boy scouts, homecoming, prom dates. This could just be the darker side of that approach (no pun intended).

It also may be important to think about these ads as more of a collaboration between the artist and the photographer. It's almost as if Juergen Teller has been documenting the life of the clothes once they've left the stores. In past ads, its sometimes been tricky to see the connection between the image and the brand.

Thank you for the analysis

 

[two months off]

great topic.

Like Ida said, I can't find the ck sex ads to be offensive. Really.

The shaved G tho, I find tacky.

 

[Marvystone]

^ that's why the thread is provocative/offensive ads

 

[kissmesweet]

(hintmag.com)
please see tFS guidelines
on the side of a building!
(supercilliousness.com)

oh god, that building is in Hong Kong. i remember seeing that and going "oh my god. that's jusy tacky." They airbrushed her nipples out, thank God. When I was scrolling down, I saw the girl's face and thought she was really pretty, then I saw the rest, ew.

 

[alouisa]

woohoo, some of these ads are making me hot! think i might go have some "me time"

 

[breathe.couture]

Those CK ads are soooooo hot.

 

[designer<3er]

Those CK ads are soooooo hot.

agreed. some of the other ones are just sooooo tacky.

 

[Diorling]

Sisley has the strangest European-orgy-in-an-uber-modern-house thing going on in all thier ads...It's not really sexy as much as it is pervy...

 

[Trista]

I find Sisley to be very tacky indeed.

That topless CK One ad though was sexy in a good way.

 

[Edison0609]

Nice Forum~~~

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

la.com

**seetfsguidelinesir**

I can't see it. LOL Was this circa Tom Ford era?

 

[Plastic'sWife]

I don't see how the M+F G ad can be oh-my-gosh-oh-so-shoking

That is the diff between you and me then...

 

[NickiLee]

There is no excuse for an ad like this:

 

[min-SH]

There is no excuse for an ad like this:
......
http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sonywhiteiscomingadlarge5xh.jpg

i think this ad is kinda offensive and ignorant.