But of course we aren't.
Dolce & Gabbana defended the campaign as art in comments reported by La Vanguardia. "What has an artistic photo got to do with a real act?" the paper quoted the firm as saying. "You would have to burn museums like the Louvre or the paintings of Caravaggio."
Dolce & Gabbana angry at advertising campaign controversy in Spain
02/23/2007
Dolce & Gabbana plans to pull the advertisement, which shows a man holding a woman to the ground by her wrists while a group of men look on, following complaints from consumers' groups.
Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has branded Spain as being 'behind the times' for demanding it withdraw a controversial advertising campaign, a newspaper reported on Friday.
Dolce & Gabbana plans to pull the advertisement, which shows a man holding a woman to the ground by her wrists while a group of men look on, following complaints from consumers' groups. "We will only withdraw this photo from the Spanish market. They're a bit behind the times," La Vanguardia newspaper quoted the Milan-based fashion house as saying.
Dolce & Gabbana, known for their risque clothes and adverts, declined to comment on the matter.
Spain's Labour and Social Affairs Ministry branded the campaign as illegal and humiliating to women, saying the woman's body position had no relation to the products Dolce & Gabbana were trying to sell.
"One could infer from the advertisement that it is acceptable to use force as a way of imposing oneself on a woman, reinforced by the passive and complicit manner of the men looking on," the ministry said in a statement.
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in the eyes of the beholder...,
she's having a seizure at a gay men's party and one nice fellow is trying to prevent her from injuring herself..., note her glazed facial expression....,
That's really how you see
That's really how you see it?
I don't think so. I think you have too much fun plucking my nerves.Â
f'real...,
note the near total detachment of the lean, muscular, oiled-up mens, no doubt about it, not a one of them is sexually or violently interested in that woman. this is a sausage festival, not a heterosexual gang-bang in the offing, ok, so maybe she's not having a seizure, maybe she was fixing to slap dood in front in the purple jacket but stumbled due to the qualudes that have them all so mellow they can barely live...,
homeboy is checking her from any further misadventures that might harsh their collective oiled up mens mellow...,
ROTFLMBAO!!!!!Â
No, I'm not having stupid
No, I'm not having stupid discussions with you.
ROTFLMBAO!!!!!!
ROTFLMBAO!!!!!!
you need to watch you some America's Next Top Model..,
to see just how ridiculously mr. and mrs. Jay pose these anorexic young wimmin like life-sized action figures pursuant to their own raucous and non-sober whims, you may be taking this molecule of fashion magazine detritus WAAAAAY to phukking seriously.
what part of fashion isn't campy inanity and insanity from a decidedly flamboyant gay male point of view?
"...what part of fashion
"...what part of fashion isn't campy inanity and insanity from a decidedly flamboyant gay male point of view?"
I don't know if I would use the word "insanity" but I think you are right for the most part in your analysis. I don't have any moral or ethical objections to these ads or their creators. I'm certainly not part of their intended targeted audience and my other half favors more of a Talbot kind of look.Â
This particular firm runs two or three full page ads in Vanity Fair every month. I don't find anything particular interesting or sexually attractive about the ads. There is a little bit too much S&M flavor in them for me and I am not especially drawn to women who have hips like young boys. They are of a type and sentiment, however, that has been around for decades although they have become more sexually and erotically charged in terms of the images they portray.
What is worse, in my opinion, is that I actually enjoy looking at the clothes women wear and that are designed for them but I don't find the clothes in any of these ads interesting to look at. It took me awhile, though, to figure out that the ads don't really have anything to do with clothes at all.Â
f'real yo..,
and on the face of it at least from where I sit, 99 times out of 100, nothing whatsoever to do with the consumer audience they're intended to communicate to. but I'll give credit where credit is due, the subliminal manipulations staged in these bizarre productions must absolutely be effective after some manner, form, or fashion that is just utterly opaque to me.
I mean really, are the artistic designers tapping into some primal "play dress-up and pose" archetypes that are simply not accessible to you, me, and the average old school heterosexual male? My wife and daughter eat this shyte up, i mean they can get immersed into Vogue, In Style, Elle, etc..., for hours on end and get genuinely hostile when I crack on it. "you don't know nothing about fashion, all your taste is in your mouth!"
oh well, and all my money is in my pocket, too.
No Disrepect Intended But...
No disrespect intended but it could be that the rocks in the heads of these designers and art directors exactly fit the holes in the heads of their intended audience.