YSL

[Guest Les]

Hopefully this will set a trend in advertisments...certainly should help loosen the self imposed censorship.:7

http://212.239.51.72/public_html/images/y/YSL_nudo.jpg

 

It smells great too!

[catnip]

What a refreshing change to see a natural European body. Les, did it come from an overseas magazine?

 

Thanks,

[Guest SeaGuy]

This ad has been causing quite a stir in the fashion and advertising worlds the last couple of months and should be running in the November issue of Vanity Fair and a few other publications though I haven't checked.:9

[+ deej]

Last I heard, a CROPPED version will run in the US.

 

This is the European version of the ad.

[Guest fukamarine]

>Last I heard, a CROPPED version will run in the US.

>

>This is the European version of the ad.

 

I think you're right. I've heard the same thing.

 

And what does this say about us?

 

That our society is an up-tight, sexually repressed, homophobic fuck-up. But then again, we all knew that when Asscroft decided to drape the tits on a statue he liked having his picture taken in front of.

 

We must be the laughing stock of Europe.

 

fukamarine

[Guest Les]

Hi catnip! :7

Here's an article about the picture. Let's hope Deej is wrong and they won't crop the pic for the US market...but knowing the timidity of our advertising media...I'm almost certain they will.

 

PARIS (Reuters) - American designer Tom Ford has set a new milestone for sex in advertising with the print commercial for the new Yves Saint Laurent men's fragrance, which features a reclining full-frontal nude male model.

 

The black-and-white publicity shot for the M7 fragrance, which stars former martial arts champion Samuel de Cubber, will be published from Oct. 24 in a handful of fashion magazines, including the French edition of Vogue.

 

So-called porn chic has swept the advertising industry in recent years, but no company had previously dared to go all the way in showing a full-frontal nude.

 

"Perfume is worn on the skin, so why hide the body?" Ford, YSL's artistic director, said in a statement. "The M7 campaign is really pure, it's a very academic nude."

 

Advance peeks of the X-rated shot are already causing a stir in local media and could lead to a repeat of the protests triggered by the Yves Saint Laurent campaign for the relaunch of its women's perfume Opium two years ago.

 

Britain's Advertising Standards Authority ordered YSL to remove the billboard commercials, featuring model Sophie Dahl reclining in the nude, because they were "sexually suggestive."

 

Ford said the M7 campaign was a homage to a now infamous picture of Saint Laurent posing naked -- though with his legs modestly crossed -- for the photographer Jeanloup Sieff in 1971.

 

"I wanted to subtly remind people that the house of Yves Saint Laurent has always been a front-runner in presenting provocative images," he said.

 

Ford, who took over the design of YSL's ready-to-wear and perfume divisions in 2000, is offering mainstream media a toned-down version showing de Cubber from the waist up.

 

The model's hairy chest contrasts sharply with the waxed pectorals of the Australian modeling sensation Travis Fimmel, who stars in the campaign for Calvin Klein's new scent Crave.

 

"I wanted to show a man who represents a natural and relaxed image of male beauty," explained Ford.

 

YSL is owned by the Italian design house Gucci, an affiliate of Pinault Printemps Redoute.

[Guest luv2luv]

Let me just appreciate the beauty of the pose and the model portraying it, not the method behind obtaining it. always, Joey

[Guest TomSans]

http://www.tomsans.net

 

Ya, I'm ready to go back to Europe. And there are some places you can marry a man and immigrate. Hey does anybody need a mail order groom over there?

[Guest Fin Fang Foom]

>But then again, we all knew that when

>Asscroft decided to drape the tits on a statue he liked

>having his picture taken in front of.

 

You know I love you baby but the the story is incorrect but the media ran with it. Ashcroft did NOT have the statue draped. An advance woman in the Justice Department bought a standard “pipe-and-drape” blue backdrop for press conferences and the like. Such a backdrop is said to make for “better visuals,” as they say in the TV business. Ashcroft had nothing to do with it and doesn't give a shit about the statue. But since the media is a liberal swamp, they misreported the story and never corrected it. How unusual.

 

 

>We must be the laughing stock of Europe.

 

Right. Heaven forbid those cheese-eating surrender monkeys (the French) think ill of us. Europe stopped being relevant about 40 years ago and they can't stand it.

 

Geopolitically yours,

 

FFF

[+ deej]

>You know I love you baby but the the story is incorrect but

>the media ran with it. Ashcroft did NOT have the statue

>draped. An advance woman in the Justice Department bought a

>standard “pipe-and-drape” blue backdrop for press

>conferences and the like. Such a backdrop is said to make

>for “better visuals,” as they say in the TV business.

>Ashcroft had nothing to do with it and doesn't give a shit

>about the statue. But since the media is a liberal swamp,

>they misreported the story and never corrected it. How

>unusual.

 

The story is correct and you are wrong.

 

Ashcroft *hated* giving press conferences in front of that statue, as has every AG since Ed Mease released his report on pornography and photographers literally battled to get photos of him holding it up in front of the tits.

 

Justice spent 8 grand to install a movable curtain in the building. There's nothing "standard" about it. I'm sure they have other standard backdrops for offsite press briefings, but this one is now permanently installed in the main hall of the Justice building.

 

If they'd asked any fag, we could have gone to K-Mart and got some nice Martha Stewart sheets to make a toga for a lot less than 8 grand.

[catnip]

Thanks for the article, Les!

What Tom Ford says makes perfect sense and is very refreshing.

 

Take care,

[Guest fukamarine]

>>We must be the laughing stock of Europe.

>

>Right. Heaven forbid those cheese-eating surrender monkeys

>(the French) think ill of us. Europe stopped being relevant

>about 40 years ago and they can't stand it.

>

>Geopolitically yours,

>

>FFF

 

FFF - I usually agree with you..... but not this time. I was not referring to their political relevance but to the fact that they are far more cosmopolitan, sophisticated and free of sexual repression than we can ever be. How can you begin to compare them with us culturally. We can only measure our culture in terms of 300 years. Theirs go back thousands. That's what I was referring to and I think you know it! :-)

 

Behave yourself or I'll send Donnie your home phone number!

 

fukamarine

[Guest Fin Fang Foom]

>>>We must be the laughing stock of Europe.

>>

>>Right. Heaven forbid those cheese-eating surrender monkeys

>>(the French) think ill of us. Europe stopped being relevant

>>about 40 years ago and they can't stand it.

>>

>>Geopolitically yours,

>>

>>FFF

>

>FFF - I usually agree with you..... but not this time. I was

>not referring to their political relevance but to the fact

>that they are far more cosmopolitan, sophisticated and free

>of sexual repression than we can ever be.

 

I will agree with you that they are far less uptight about sex than we are.

 

 

>How can you begin

>to compare them with us culturally. We can only measure our

>culture in terms of 300 years. Theirs go back thousands.

 

When you say "culturally" you must be referring to the arts. You're correct again, but only if you go back hundreds of years. We have held our own quite nicely for the past hundred years - and in many areas, we have led the way - cinema, literature, playwrighting, acting, directing. We don't take a backseat to anyone in those categories.

 

I'm referring to the fact that if it weren't for us (and the British) Europe would be "Goose-stepping to the Oldies" at their local Living Well Frau. When it comes to being ingrates, they bow to no one.

 

Gratefully yours,

 

FFF

[bluenix]

Just a Quick Visual Review

 

>But then again, we all knew that when

>Asscroft decided to drape the tits on a statue he liked

>having his picture taken in front of.

 

http://www.ezshots.com/members/blueman/images/blueman-56.jpg

[BewareofNick]

RE: Just a Quick Visual Review

 

>>But then again, we all knew that when

>>Asscroft decided to drape the tits on a statue he liked

>>having his picture taken in front of.

>

>http://www.ezshots.com/members/blueman/images/blueman-56.jpg

 

-Truth Justice and the American Way-

 

It's a good thing they pointed out which is which, cause all I see here are two boobs.