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Swiss paper publishes this bogus Gucci ad
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» Prankster tricks Swiss newspaper into running fake Gucci ad from Boing Boing
This guy created a fake ad for Gucci using a photo of himself, and asked the Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung to run it, which it did. He also told the paper to send the $50,000 bill to Gucci, which it did. Now the paper is trying to find the guy, which i... [Read More]
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» Send the bill to Gucci from Can We Add a Starburst?!
This is a great story about a man who designed an ad (featuring himself) and sent it to a Swiss newspaper as a two-page full-color spread. A spread to be billed at $50,000 to Gucci. This is what advertising gets for being such a last-minute business. I... [Read More]
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» Man Cons Newspaper Into Running Fake Guuci Ad from Adrants
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» Swiss Newspaper Publishes Pranksters Fake Gucci Ad from goldengod
In a hilarious turn of events, a prankster in Switzerland convinced a major Swiss newspaper to publish a two-page fake Gucci ad. The ad features a picture of the prankster himself, posing topless with a bottle of Gucci perfume.
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» A camera, Photoshop and a Dream from Vir Ex Machina
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Genius!
Posted by: EH | Feb 27, 2007 12:59:46 PM
Pretty fucking slick.
Posted by: makethelogobigger | Feb 27, 2007 1:41:44 PM
good one
Posted by: | Feb 27, 2007 1:47:15 PM
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA, and I remember thinking when I saw the add, that the model its not such a good choice! Who cares, he is a tricky genius!
Posted by: | Feb 27, 2007 2:00:35 PM
Damn. I'd try this myself, but the only print ad I'd look believable on would be the "before" in a diet ad.
Posted by: Bob | Feb 27, 2007 2:07:16 PM
Slick trick, yes--but look how much coverage Gucci is getting out of it. Remember, there's no such thing as bad press.
Posted by: Nancy | Feb 27, 2007 2:23:12 PM
Ad and wanted-poster all in one.
Posted by: LarsG | Feb 27, 2007 2:36:56 PM
FARK that! HAW HAW HAW
Posted by: Septic Skeptic | Feb 27, 2007 2:58:13 PM
Pretty funny until the cologne body oil hits the ...
Posted by: Control_this | Feb 27, 2007 3:04:32 PM
Brilliant...gucci couldn't pay for this publicity
Posted by: gunnermountain | Feb 27, 2007 3:13:27 PM
Bet he gets a modelling deal out of it!!
Posted by: T | Feb 27, 2007 3:26:56 PM
Ha! Totally a win for everybody involved...including the paper. Although I'm sure they're really tightening up those insertion order procedures.
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Posted by: branddame | Feb 27, 2007 3:35:41 PM
He's Cute!
Posted by: Dan | Feb 27, 2007 4:01:18 PM
9/10 for initiative.
1 pt off cos he didn't do Calvin.
Posted by: batfreak | Feb 27, 2007 4:15:44 PM
Why wouldn't Gucci just do this. It's a great way to save $50,000.
Posted by: Genre Comedy | Feb 27, 2007 4:45:40 PM
Absolutely fantastic :)
Posted by: Photocritic | Feb 27, 2007 5:59:08 PM
There is a god!
and he's got a fucking wick** sense of humour.
*slang/lazy abbreviation of the word 'wicked'.
**Also the catalytic lighting element of a candle.
Posted by: monkeehub | Feb 27, 2007 6:56:28 PM
If only you knew what was going on around the bloke's rear entry/exit point.
It isn't pretty.
Unless thou art ghey.
Posted by: Obbop | Feb 27, 2007 7:02:10 PM
maybe i am just a cynical farker....but have to belive this is yet another viral marketing ploy...at least boston's finest wont drop a million reposnding to this one though
Posted by: TheDeadDireWolf | Feb 27, 2007 7:44:33 PM
ohh, hotness...
Posted by: groovnyc | Feb 27, 2007 8:08:26 PM
brill
Posted by: bobbysponge | Feb 27, 2007 8:33:47 PM
Absolutely no way he'll get arrested for fraud to the order of $50k.
Posted by: Jon | Feb 27, 2007 8:42:06 PM
Nice, culture jamming !
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NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE!
Posted by: bah | Feb 27, 2007 8:58:11 PM
This is just brilliant from this guy, but who says this is the real story? Maybe the story itself is bogus? I can just be a clever plot. Interesting though if this post never came up, you would never have thought of this angle.
Anyway. Also check this pretty slick dude: www.thousandlotsofsand.com
Posted by: Dimitrios | Feb 27, 2007 10:26:14 PM
Sounds like he committed fraud. Definitely mail fraud if it had happened in the US.
Is that David Blaine?
Posted by: Lugnut | Feb 27, 2007 11:26:55 PM
This is viral marketing for Gucci, dorks.
Posted by: Bastardo Anónimo | Feb 28, 2007 1:13:36 AM
Like the Guiness Beer brothers say "Brilliant".
Posted by: Jeye | Feb 28, 2007 1:52:49 AM
gucci should better give 2000$ to killer to find that gu(a)y
Posted by: joy | Feb 28, 2007 4:47:22 AM
Gucci should actually pay him for a brilliant ad
Posted by: MK | Feb 28, 2007 6:17:32 AM
Is it me or does he look like a young Bart Simpson?
Posted by: Charles Edward Frith | Feb 28, 2007 7:42:23 AM
Whoops I mean Homer.
Posted by: Charles Edward Frith | Feb 28, 2007 7:42:58 AM
Pwnage?
Posted by: Niggerslayer | Feb 28, 2007 7:57:15 AM
As soon as I saw the image (before I read the story) I knew this must be bogus. This dude has never modeled for anything other than a free gay weekly. Gucci would never use this dime a dozen wannabe. He'll resurface and make the cover of "OUT" and that will be his 15 minutes.
Posted by: jared | Feb 28, 2007 8:06:22 AM
It’s curious how much sometimes one is willing to pay for his 15 minutes of fame. I mean, accusations in fraud with the impact of 50k (no matter for magazine or for Gucci)…Plus some damage done to Gucci assets by devaluating company’s brand (which is how much exactly now? According to some 2002-2003 Newsweek estimates, the Gucci brand value is 5363 millions US dollars)… I say, the guy must have balls.
Posted by: J.T. | Feb 28, 2007 9:07:14 AM
bwahahahaha! it's a 5+ !!!
Posted by: Tot Even | Feb 28, 2007 9:52:56 AM
I think he looks pretty sexy. He would be a good choice for a GUCCI model.
Posted by: George Johnson | Feb 28, 2007 11:38:58 AM
funniest thing about this is that it's one the WOMEN'S fragrances he's posing with
Posted by: tom | Feb 28, 2007 12:26:51 PM
Ha - ha ha!!! I am PSI-SHiZZZZZZ
Ha - ha ha!!!
Posted by: lobster | Feb 28, 2007 1:50:30 PM
This guy looks like Prince!
Posted by: Joe jr | Feb 28, 2007 3:21:01 PM
Ugly guy! But they'll love him in prison.
Posted by: ZZ | Feb 28, 2007 4:01:48 PM
Yeah, Gucci's new Velvet Ghetto line. Please.
Posted by: Y | Feb 28, 2007 5:15:25 PM
Hilarious! Why didn't any of us think of that first???
Posted by: Spencer Ferguson | Feb 28, 2007 7:04:18 PM
Thats about ten purse's for Gucci. I don't think it affected their profit margin at all. But a nice stick to the man move.
-Vadim
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yeh Id sleep with him, but prefer to be awake...... ;-0
pity he didnt make it to mardi gras in Sydney...
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Posted by: 0LOANDIRECT | Mar 18, 2007 3:40:54 AM
Haha, fun hoax of the year, but why he didn't publish in 1st April? :D
Posted by: Wahyu | Apr 6, 2007 9:15:45 PM
I tried viral marketing.
Took my dick out of its hidey hole and shook it at passers-by while shouting out "Support GW Bush."
I was arrested, tried and convicted to 90 days in the calaboose.
Not for indecent exposure.
No!!!!!!!!
Busted for public stupidity for supporting Bush.
I deserved my fate.
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