Friday, July 15, 2011

Clarins hires Paralympics blade runner to model for provocative ad in effort to challenge fashion industry ideal of beauty

From The NY Times:The first thing that registers in a glance at the new advertising campaign for Thierry Mugler A★Men fragrance is that the model, shown running across the page, appears to have neon laser beams shooting out of his rump. The second thing is his physique, his thick slab of a chest and powerful forearms in motion. The last thing (and here it takes a moment to click) is that in place