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Lingerie that goes with practically any outfit
Liaison Dangereuse, an online lingerie retailer in Germany, takes some chances by claiming that "sexiness is for everyone." Frankly, I can think of a few people who sexiness is definitely not for. Picture Glenn Beck and Al Franken in thongs. On second thought, don't. Thankfully, we're treated to an exotic hottie in this ad by Berlin agency Glow that boasts a cool, even poignant, twist ending. We're not all quite the same underneath, but everyone, at some time or another, wants to feel sexy. Some of us should fight those feelings. We know who we are. Via Ads of the World. |
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October 23, 2009 in Europe, Gianatasio, Lingerie | Permalink |
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Def. did not see that coming.
Posted by: World in Motion | Oct 23, 2009 11:31:15 PM
Outstanding. Love this. Except now I have the oh-so-nasty Glenn Beck image in my head.
Posted by: adchick | Oct 24, 2009 7:10:33 PM
An ending that "boasts a cool, even poignant, twist ending."
More like sad and demeaning
Posted by: BeachBumBill | Oct 25, 2009 12:23:43 AM
This commercial is extraordinarily dumb. Your review is vacuous. I expand on this theme here http://www.grumpybrit.com/?p=282
Posted by: simon billing | Oct 25, 2009 8:10:47 AM
Neat!! Treating women like property and making them wear male approved, religiously appropriate clothing is so...cutting edge!
When did we start turn the subjugation of women into an ad campaign? Just askin'.
Posted by: Nick Danger | Oct 26, 2009 11:04:03 AM
To Simon:
My my. Someone has sand in their vagina.
Posted by: Fatboy | Oct 26, 2009 11:55:19 AM
You accidentally cut off the end of the commercial in which her father and brothers had to kill to uphold the family honor.
Posted by: Mr Poignant | Oct 26, 2009 11:57:41 AM
While the social repercussions reflected by this ad are controversial at best, it is an interesting take on presenting the message. I would argue that most lingerie ads (ie Victoria's Secret) appeal to male audiences; interestingly, this ad blurs the line between the model as a sex object and as a victim of a misogynistic society in which women are simultaneously hypersexualized and then stigmatized. If nothing else, it succeeds in raising questions as to the mixed messages within the ad itself and beyond.
Posted by: kuADfan | Oct 26, 2009 2:01:11 PM
No arguments with the advertiser there: what they (and the model) are up to here is certainly Dangereuse.
No doubt some (male) Muslim nutter- someone who agrees with you, David, that sexiness is NOT for everyone (or anyone, for that matter)- will take offense and quietly push her off the 10th floor.
Posted by: Amanda K | Oct 26, 2009 2:45:32 PM
It's a nice idea, but Mark Steyn got it right, when he said:
Fatima's Secret
This German lingerie ad (warning: contains soft-focus footage of the female form in all its pulchritude — don't stampede all at once) has a cool superficial smartness with what is intended to be an O. Henry switcheroo at the tail.
I think it's more like wishful thinking. For one thing, if the actress were truly a believer as opposed to a jobbing actress, taking this underdressed gig would earn her an honor killing. Enjoy the multiculti sophisticated jests while you can, lads.
Posted by: MJD | Oct 26, 2009 6:29:01 PM
Pure PC multiculti balls. Islam and millions of Muslims arounf the world prefer dead women to free women. Islam wants you and I dead. No really. And hey, when would six and nine year-old girls wear sexy underwear? Oh that's right: maybe on their wedding night to a 35 year old Saudi Peadophile Prince or a 63 year old goat herder..
Wake up, read and research. Start by studying logical fallacy first, then read P.J O'Rourke, Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, Brigitte Gabriel, Walid Shoebat and PJTV com etc. Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com.
Posted by: Colonel Neville | Oct 26, 2009 7:06:46 PM
Oh yes..now that the dominant Marxist product sodden, left radical liberal paradigms of PC multiculti envirofascism and moral equivalence are in hyper logical fallacy Orwellian Ministry Of Truth overdrive, [takes breath..] even the pure world of advertising will help to destroy us all.
Just wait until the local Muslim jihadist psychopath inbreds are beheading Aunt Doris at the local supermarket. It STILL won't change most pople and those in charge. "Plea to understand that Islam is peace after beheading in fruit and vegetables." WE'RE ALL DOOMED, you dumb bas...! No really. Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com.
Posted by: Colonel Neville | Oct 26, 2009 7:16:18 PM
"...a cool, even poignant, twist ending."
You, David Gianatasio, are a cowardly, multi-culti, misogynist pig.
20 years hence, you'll be the first to stick your mother or sister in a burqa for the sake of "peace".
Posted by: Helen O'M | Oct 26, 2009 7:24:23 PM
Depressing. Is this a day in the life of Osama Bin Laden's wife (one of them?) Nice work, chappies.
No wonder European women are not having babies when this is the advertising messages they have to suffer.
Treating the body sack as a sexy covering with nothing but black bra and panties underneath belongs in 1001 Arabian nights fairy tales.
Grow up and see what this does to women's self confidence.
Posted by: African Queen | Oct 26, 2009 8:46:21 PM
Um, I don't get it. She's supposed to be liberated because she's wearing lingerie, then she defeats the whole message by putting on a burkha at the end? If you're hiding your 'liberated' self underneath a burkha, what's the point?
Posted by: Slider | Oct 27, 2009 12:02:54 AM
I'm not buying it. (Advert- not the lingerie)
Women wouldn't feel the urge to wear this lingerie having had their genitals mutilated at birth or during childhood. That's the whole idea of FGM, isn't it? And burqas meremly serve to hide the beatings from husbands and other male family members.
Nothin' sexy about any of it.
Posted by: xxx | Oct 27, 2009 12:12:58 AM
I'd rather picture Beck in a thong than Nasty Pelosi, thank you.
Posted by: Atom&Yves | Oct 27, 2009 2:53:10 PM
So this is the new-speak multi-cult agit-prop? Attempting to make Burqa's and Islam hip, cool, and exiting? Yippie!!! I wonder if any of these Benetton one-world fashionistas has ever really lived in an Muslim majority country and really knows how unfair, discriminatory, and oppressive Islamic societies really are. I suppose every generation has their fair share of useful idiots though. 50 years ago, they would have made the same commercial only with the woman putting on a lingerie before she donned a communist party approved workers uniform to go work at the Lada factory.
Posted by: Jim | Oct 27, 2009 3:16:02 PM
Agree with Jim, and others above.
Clitorectomies are not "cool".
Burqas are not mysterious or "exciting".
As a female, this advertisement makes me quite sick.
I'm sure it contributes in some small way to the conversion phenomenon in Europe: You too can wear your black lacy underwear under your burqa.
Disgusting.
Posted by: infidel girl | Oct 28, 2009 1:44:58 AM
As we can´t see the ad on youtube anymore, cehck this out:
Posted by: John G.G. Tucker | Nov 10, 2009 4:53:34 AM
