Archive for March 9th, 2006

Diesel Sexy Jeans Advertisement over the edge!

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Yves Saint Laurent Opium perfume advertisement featuring a naked Sophie DahlIt looks like Diesel have orchestrated a controversial advertising campaign to convolutedly gain brand exposure. The controversial advertisement, which has already been banned, depicts the rear of a naked man with three pairs of female legs hitched suggestively around his body.

Diesel Sexy Jeans Advertisement over the edge!

 

The controversial advertisement appeared in The Sunday Times Style Magazine and reputedly ignited outrage, not dissimilar to the Yves Saint Laurent Opium perfume advertisement featuring a naked Sophie Dahl.

Diesel reputedly countered the outrage by insisting their advertisement was appropriate for the Style Magazine readership.

Someone should remind the marketing team at Diesel that Subtle is invariable more Sexy!

Ben Sherman Shirt Ben Sherman Clothes Bridge it!

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Ben Sherman Shirt Ben Sherman Clothes Bridge it!Ben Sherman is one of those truly rare brands that somehow manages to bridge the unbridgeable gap between youth-culture and middle age high-culture. Ben Sherman has the enviable quality of appealing to a full and varied spectrum of customers.

Ben Sherman goes right back to the 1950’s, but Ben Sherman really hit the fashion world in the 1960’s when the brand was albeit officially adopted by the MOD movement. The Ben Sherman brand continued to expand into the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s. Today Ben Sherman is worn and respected the world over, not just by the brand’s original MOD followers but by skaters, hip-hop aficionados, city slickers, cabbies, footballers and celebrities. It appears that Ben Sherman unites people of amazingly diverse backgrounds, mindsets and viewpoints, which in a World of so much disharmony and polarisation is truly incredible!

Is Ben Sherman the real United Nations?