SW....exactly....those onlookers give the picture a really creepy setting....as you said, only a man and woman in the frame wouldn't have had this strong impact...
i know that this is exactly what they wanted.......lots of publicity....lots of gossip and talking .......and only for this motivations this picture is even more offensive and stupid.....
their adds from jan/feb this year were horrible too. very violent...blood, knives, dead bodies ...and of course naked women.
these ads are offensive and i have no idea the message they are trying to deliver except shock value. i think these fasion people are just going for pure shock value. I'd be interested in seeing what they say about their message as I have heard they have hired a new publicist.....
ok! THAT gave me the creeps!
the men were watching as if they're waiting for their turns!
I wouldn't want to be that attractive.
Whoe's genius idea was this? They think women want to be raped?
you know upon seeing this ad at first it would have been okay if the guy and the girl were alone but when there were onlookers now that is offensive...
damn and those shoes were hot...
Well......of all the comments received excuse me guys if i first have to answer to LJ......
To start ....sorry, I dont see your point......number 5 doesn't tell me anything that might offend me as woman...i see it more as a mere provocation, depicting a sexy game more than anything. I think that in this contest is more an intellectualization of the dynamic between man and woman where these dynamics are moved to the terrain of a sexy game of sub and dom....but if the rules are accepted by both parties ...where is the violence?
Instead the pix i chose tells me more that sexy game....it screams frankly of instigation to rape.......i think D&G pushed the provocation a little too much and the whole thing fell out of theirs hands...i see here mindless and stupid provocation that put itselfs out of the rules. An image that is oblivious of the tight connection betweem imaginary and message.
This message speaks loud....and i reacted to it based on my personal and political beliefs.......that's why i asked your opinions.......since i think to know your positions a little bit though i didnt think for one moment you didn't have a reason for your question....:-)....
So i would like to know: did you ask me to consider pix 5 as an example of me being close minded to the point of not seeing that that woman is raping that man imposing he power to him like the men in pix 7?
Or, to corroborate my point of view, you say number 5 and number 7 have the same message....violence or sexy game being indistinguishable ....so basically i shouldn't make too much fuss about #7?
You know, your question actually broaden up the whole topic to which ones are the boundaries, the rules, the limits of mutual accepted actions between man and woman. And we can discuss them for hours....
When a message is so out there though...splashed in magazines and seen by thousand i question even more vehemently the validity of that message...for as understanding i might be i can say it was way off style...:-)
Mimi....more stupid than anything....it blows my mind how intelligent people as you migth perceive advertising professionals would come up with this..all that money in models, make ups, photographers, location rents, all that freaking ad machine...for this? .
Daily.....yep, they reached their goal....see, we are talking about them even here..:-)
Secret..i didn't know you were so into Italian fashion..lol...yes, they changed their PR lately...probably is the same one who suggested them to keep going with thisi lovely campaign....
Kruu...really? Would you find it questionable even without those onlookers? Well......i don't know..i wouldn't go that far...as i said to LJ......as long as the message is showing a mutual accepting of the rules within a sexy game i dont find it necessarily offensive...but this pix for me is beyond that......
Moms...their perfume is great.....i bought it to my ex many years ago and i got him hooked to it.....it smells so good...
Beyond...lol..i am glad to see you understanding the not so subliminal message of that picture......but, hey..... refusing a hefty 50% off a brand new pick up is a big committment for a man......are you sure?...teasing...:-)
Yani..evidently they think we women are going to line up to be raped ...but when it will happen at least we will be happy because we will be dressed in D&G....
Mommy....have you been able to see the dress? well..between the model's pain expression and him grabbing her wrist....i have to say..i got completely distracted....
Bot......its really touching a lot of nerves in my country..i have read today that many are asking the cancellation of the campaign .....D&G answered defending their creative freedom...and they said there was no negative message in it...
LG...you are right..way, way not ok....
Queen.....i know...those shoes are great....:-)...i went to your post...lovely shoes you have there.....i am another shoe fetish...
HHater....you are so right....they could be adversting everything except dignity and respect for the women...
Silly.....you dont sound like a total freak at all...actually, you raise important questions and advertising abnormalities have been indeed the starting point of this discussion in Kruu's blog......i was explaining to Beyond the excessive use of sex and naked women in Italy's ads.....and how this sexualition and objectivation of the woman has alreday reached dangerous limits perfectly symbolized by this D&G ad.....believe me....this is only the point of the iceberg....
I was explaining how different is (still) the publicity here in Usa...that is still ages behind some publicity in countries like Italy, Spain, Germany and Europe in general....when i moved here i noticed immediately thisdifference...and anytime i come back in my country it hits me ....
Picker.....i agree with you ......:-)
Hotaka......you know?....i had the same spaced out sensation when i was analyzing that ad....it really looked like she wasn't even a woman anymore....but a piece of meat.....a fish...whatever but not a woman...
wonder if SeanRenaud had read this blog and had seen the ad my ...it should be enlightining for his post about women and rape.........