...No introduction necessary, I hope.But this one is by far the cleverest:
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
...WolfM:MiaTrost:... accordingly in this article.My God! The author has serious problems, I suspect''the incognizant viewers must be discredited on the basis of their incomprehensiveness in analysis and conception.''Yeah, sure... This is called "looking under the cow - goat":''... it is implied black kinky hair is not beautiful'''' The model’s head is thrown back, as though all hope is gone''.''black model (the negative creature, the shadow).''.''she finds it impossible to look into the eyes of the bird''''model, who is simultaneously embracing the “whiteness’ all around her'''' she is a negative obstacle in his “white” kingdom''...WTF!?!nonono, enough!!It's just patheticLmao Mia and WolfM, who's overreacting or -thinking here? :D The blog's author is majoring psychology and anthropology among other things, and analyzing beauty standards and acceptable appearances for women, especially black, is well within their expertise. Considering they're black, too. You write about the stuff that's closest to you, no?What's wrong or pathetic with an analysis that frames an ad in ways that aren't familiar to you? Nowhere was it written that the picture is not beautiful, anyway, so why the ruffled feathers?
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04.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by MiaTrost | Parfumo Community
...Sweetgrass:Besides the likes of Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and Beyoncé, it's really hard to find women of colour cast for big-budget perfume ads. Shame!Pertinent... likes of Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and Beyoncé, it's really hard to find women of colour cast for big-budget perfume ads. Shame!Pertinent observation, Sweetgrass. The number of minority models used for perfume advertisement seems to be pretty low indeed. Naively I thought Lanvin might have capitalised on...
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04.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
...Moschino! Tee hee hee :DBut I am disappointed that Alexander Skarsgård isn't naked here:
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03.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
...WolfM:MiaTrost:And the ad certainly makes its point: M7 is a scent targeted at men.But... There's something wrong here. They try to sell us tires, snow chains, chain saws, and even 30-ton trucks, through ads with the naked women.And when it comes to convince us about men's cologne - suddenly we strike... a naked man!What is supposed to be the message - "if you have it - you will be like him"?... or - "Do not bend down"?!..P.S. Well, anyway - I have it.BTW - It works!!seems indeed I became more hairy.Lmao! :DI think the ad was targeted at the women who presumably take care of perfume shopping in some relationships -- "buy the perfume, find this guy in your bed". :DAlso seriously a great deal of the iconic big-name fashion designers have been and are gay men, so I don't find it at all unlikely that some of those ads are targeted to the gay men out there. Also this passage from MiaTrost's post made think...One would think that perhaps by then people had seen it all before and would not particularly care about this image either way. But no, because of the model's "sexually suggestive pose" it reportedly attracted over 700 complaints. It was seen to be degrading and offensive. I wonder what makes it so. Her sexuality? Really? ...more about what it is that makes some ads with naked/barely covered women objectionable while others necessarily don't. And I think what sums it up best is that sometimes women's nakedness or provocative poses do not signify sexual agency. In the Tom Ford photo, first on this thread, especially I see a woman thoroughly stripped not only of her clothing but her agency and her presence reduced to plain availability, in this case to make her a sexualized blotter holder, a literal object.Nor does the Opium model, in my view, express her sexuality in any real sense; again, she suggests availability, not agency. We don't even get to see her face or get an idea of her identity because she, being reduced to an object available for whatever sexual purpose, doesn't need one. And this is the kind of imagery I would definitely call blatantly misogynistic and demeaning. If you want to be squicked even further by the advertising industry, you can read up on Terry Richardson, another of Tom Ford's ad photographers.I'm sure nobody is even suggesting that men don't face intense pressure to fit into some mold of masculinity but, when girls' self-image and self-esteem often practically crumble when they hit puberty (whereas the boys' typically doesn't), I think I can safely say the pressure is much more intense for girls. And even more so for queer or trans* kids.The fact that a naked man in a men's perfume ad raises eyebrows whereas naked women in women's perfume ads doesn't should be evidence enough.
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03.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by MiaTrost | Parfumo Community
...Sweetgrass:Chanel N°5, for the ladies who enjoyed the M7 post::lol: Thanx. In case this might not be the most convincing take on Chanel advertising: http...
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03.02.2014
The most beautiful and well-crafted Flacons
by Sweetgrass | Perfumes & Brands
...Ohh, yes to the Guerlain bee bottles! Here are some others that I like, more modern in their approach:KenzoIssey MiyakeComme des Garçons
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03.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
...I also love Beyoncé and am really looking forward to smelling her newest, "Rise", even though I wasn't that into her previous perfumes:Lolita Lempicka is cute and lovely as always:Chanel N°5, for the ladies who enjoyed the M7 post:
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03.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
Re: Favourite Perfume Advertising
...Silverfire:The other perspective is that advertising agencies are another dehumanization factory for naive women, exploiting them and discarding them when their youth and beauty are gone. To be fair, that isn't the only industry known for such treatment -- the music industry, the film industry, and others function the same way. I've always thought that if you make your appeal to sex, then you are selling sex first, and your product only secondarily. For instance, the Opium ad just makes me want to jack off, not to buy Opium.Which is a shame, because the Opium I have smelled is a masterpiece in perfumery. ;)I am more bored than anything with the countless photos of seductively reclining of naked or scantly clad women regurgitated in perfume adverts over and over again, but this was a thread for discussing favourites, so while we're talking YSL, this inspires me 8) I'm not quite sure what to make of Bottega Veneta or Bvlgari, though. Why so serious?Besides the likes of Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and Beyoncé, it's really hard to find women of colour cast for big-budget perfume ads. Shame!
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03.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by MiaTrost | Parfumo Community
...Sweetgrass:.. my absolute favourite has to be YSL's "M7". The full frontal version ..Can we look at this one for a couple of weeks? Please... pretty please.If...
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03.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Cincy | Parfumo Community
...Sweetgrass:Yuck, that first photo in MiaTrost's opening post is actually really creepy :shock: Anyhow, my absolute favourite has to be YSL's "M7". The full...
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02.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
...Re blotter image: Tom Ford's advertising? Where is that vomit emoticon when I need one :lol:
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02.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by MiaTrost | Parfumo Community
...Sweetgrass:Yeah, somehow I doubt that woman is the brand owner posing for her own advertising.Sure, she is not. But I gather from the pic that Tom Ford does...
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02.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Apicius | Parfumo Community
...Sweetgrass:Yeah, somehow I doubt that woman is the brand owner posing for her own advertising. It *is* creepy.Oh, this is a misunderstanding. I thought "creepy...
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02.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
...Yeah, somehow I doubt that woman is the brand owner posing for her own advertising. It *is* creepy.
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02.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Apicius | Parfumo Community
...Sweetgrass:Yuck, that first photo in MiaTrost's opening post is actually really creepy :shock: Anyhow, my absolute favourite has to be YSL's "M7". The full...
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02.02.2014
Remarkable perfume ads & commercials
by Sweetgrass | Parfumo Community
...Yuck, that first photo in MiaTrost's opening post is actually really creepy :shock: Anyhow, my absolute favourite has to be YSL's "M7". The full frontal version, which I am posting below since apparently images of naked women with blotters up their ass are okay too.
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02.02.2014
Marketing Mistakes - arbitrary target group?
by Apicius | Perfumes & Brands
...rather deeply, and so we find it hard to accept that somebody else might have a different approach or even an opposing opinion. Dulcemio, MRoth and Sweetgrass, as far as I have understood what has been said so far I very much doubt that you are really worlds apart from each other. I don't really see a...
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29.01.2014
Marketing Mistakes - arbitrary target group?
by Sweetgrass | Perfumes & Brands
...Further reading:Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People - See more at: http://www.incite-national.org/page/policing-native-women-native-two-spirit-and-trans-people#sthash.gSmL1aU6.dpuf Transgender Identities in an Age of Globalization and Colonialism (Part One) http://www.genderacrossborders.com/2012/02/28/transgender-identities-in-an-age-of-globalization-and-colonialism-part-one/Globalization, Structural Violence, and LGBT Health: A Cross-Cultural Perspective — Mark B. Padilla, Ernesto Vásquez del Aguila, and Richard G. Parker http://elib.fk.uwks.ac.id/asset/archieve/e-book/PSYCHIATRIC-%20ILMU%20PENYAKIT%20JIWA/The%20Health%20of%20Sexual%20Minorities%201st%20ed%202007%20Springer.pdf#page=223TRANSGENDER ISSUES: A FACT SHEET - http://www.transgenderlaw.org/resources/transfactsheet.pdf
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