May 192008
Okay, so that’s a little unfair. But the clown makeup…!
Ok, I confess, I love it.
I’m torn about the shoes. The ‘wedge with highlighted heel’ thing. But somehow it works with this whole ensemble.
Dlisted posted this and other fabulous photos from a Marc Jacob shoot for Interview Magazine, including one other with questionably fug shoes.
The shoes deserve a look but the cigarette doesn’t work for me. The tobacco industry is unable to market directly to youth, but ads like these continue to portray smoking as ‘cool’ and ‘funky’ or in the words of the headline, ‘bad ass glam’. Watch for ads like this in magazines directed at fashion conscious youth and ask the advertising department if they received any funding from the tobacco industry. They are desperate to find ‘replacement smokers’.
haha…thanks mom
This is a photo shoot with a famous designer, not an ad (from what I understand), so while it likely isn’t meant to advertise for the cigarette industry, of course it does indirectly because of its association between a hot celebrity doing something “artistic” while smoking.
He’s channelling the old Hollywood cigarette bad-ass association to create a certain artistic image, and it has the vicious circle effect of reinforcing that cigarette coolness factor.
I wonder how long it will take before cigarettes as an image aren’t sexy anymore?