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By Jill on 7.12.2007


Fashion Junkie, originally uploaded by JillNic83.

“Fashion Junkie,” an ad for Sisley. All class.

Glad to see that we’ve moved from the so over “heroin chic” to glamourizing skinny dead-eyed drug-using white chicks as our fashion icons.

Thanks to Lauren for the picture.

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19 Responses

  1. 1
    Will 7.12.2007 at 12:05 pm |

    I love how the one on the right doesn’t even have pupils…

    (Fashion is misspelled in the ad!)

  2. 2
    Cooper 7.12.2007 at 12:37 pm |

    I think it’s purposely spelled “fashioin” as a pun on the word “heroin”. At least this is one misogynist fashion ad that probably will be called out in the media.

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    Roy 7.12.2007 at 12:40 pm |

    Will: I think her eyes are supposed to rolled into her head, because she’s strung out. Also: it’s not misspelled- it’s just not in English. The brand is Sisley, not Sicily, and they’re part of the Benetton group, which are Italian. This is a European ad.

    Yeah.
    I’ve never understood a lot of fashion photography. The company that owns Sisley has a bit of history with *ahem* classy ads. Another of their brands featured ads that just showed a closeup of black woman breastfeeding a white baby. They had an ad of a closeup of a woman about to put a snake in her mouth (nothing suggestive there, I’m sure). Or, the classy ad showing a woman’s breast being grabbed from behind (you can’t see any of their faces). Their adverts are pretty shittastic, if you ask me.

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    somebody 7.12.2007 at 12:51 pm |

    That’s “Sisley”, the clothing company, not “Sicily”, the country ;)

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    Roy 7.12.2007 at 12:53 pm |

    Eh, ignore me- it’s totally misspelled (on purpose or not). My mistake.

    Anyway… I’ve seen Sisley ads before. They’re craptastic.

    Blah.

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    Sabrina Star 7.12.2007 at 12:54 pm |

    Judging from the treatment of Kate Moss, it’s not okay if models actually *use* drugs (or, perhaps more accurately, if they get caught at it) but it’s okay to portray them as drug users, murder victims, or in any other degrading or humilitaing light an advertiser’s misogynistic brain can dream up for a photo shoot.

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    TinaH 7.12.2007 at 2:16 pm |

    That’s revolting. Can’t models refuse to participate in crap like that? Have some dignity.

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    Daisy 7.12.2007 at 3:06 pm |

    I just wonder if maybe they actually got them high before the shoot?

    Or maybe they were already high when they got there.

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    dorothy_parked_her 7.12.2007 at 3:27 pm |

    The fact that Sisley is in the Benetton family of brands makes me wonder if this is another spoof ad like the “Benetton Colors of Domestic Violence” ad that fooled a lot of us: http://www.10ad.org/colors-of-domestic-violence-from-benetton/

    And if it’s not? Well, ick.

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    Laur 7.12.2007 at 3:42 pm |

    I’m also wondering if this is a spoof ad. It’s so tasteless I can’t imagine anyone would have the stupidity to actually show it… wouldn’t you think this would face a lot of opposition from people? At least, I HOPE it’s just a spoof. If not, that’s pretty ridiculous.

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    prairielily 7.12.2007 at 4:10 pm |

    Hey, I can see the left one’s nipple.

    I hope this is a spoof. I’m inclined to think it is, because seriously, you can’t even really see the clothes. How am I supposed to know that I want to buy it if I don’t know what “it” really is?

    If it’s real, I don’t know what to say.

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    Natalia 7.12.2007 at 4:30 pm |

    Nothing wrong with a little nipple, but otherwise.. WTF. It’s a joke, right?

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    Natalia 7.12.2007 at 4:30 pm |

    Nothing wrong with a little nipple, but otherwise.. WTF. It’s a joke, right?

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    Roy 7.12.2007 at 5:07 pm |

    Sisley has a history of making ads where you can’t see much- if any- of the clothing, and they’ve got a number of adverts that feature more blatant nudity than that, so this really isn’t that shocking, I think. They’ve got ads hat feature women being grabbed, squirting milk from a cow’s udder straight into their mouths… and they just get classier from there.

    It might be a spoof, but I don’t think it is.
    *shrug*

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    Azundris 7.12.2007 at 5:25 pm |

    Maybe the flu’s to blame, but I’ll admit I found it mildly amusing (as opposed to, say, the D+G). Maybe I’ll get what the outrage is all about once I feel better.

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    jeffaclitus 7.12.2007 at 5:37 pm |

    Geez, how do they manage to make drug use look so unpleasant?

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    mermaidshoes 7.12.2007 at 5:38 pm |

    at least now i finally get why white is so in this season: coke dust doesn’t show!

    of course, doesn’t explain why the models are in dark colors…

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    philosophizer 7.12.2007 at 11:44 pm |

    i think i may be missing something, but my first thought was that it was a dig at fashion obsession – they’re treating the dress like a drug, like something you unhealthily abuse – the marketing pitch being hey, instead of ruining your life worrying about how you look, buy our shit so you’ll look nice without having to think about it and can get on with your life.

    but it is past my bedtime and i did skim, so who knows.

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    micheyd 7.13.2007 at 8:00 am |

    Hey, maybe that is their plan – the reality of drug use! It makes you look gross!

    And the problem with white is although the coke dust doesn’t show, the nosebleeds do…

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