I was reading an article the other day claiming American Apparel, nu-ethical productionist of skinny shit for cheap ‘n crunky fashionsluts, has spent squillions of cents pushing their adverts across the peoplenet. Y’know the ones: white background; Helvetica font; grungy co-ed chick with what looks like a roofy hangover. As much as those ads are effective in getting me to clickity-click my way thru to ogle some more models, I guess AA’s target audience of professional porn stars, amateur porn stars and students going to a fancy dress party as one of the above aren’t as susceptible to such subtle marketing techniques. The company has been losing greens in the millions lately.
Even if the absent girlfriend demographic isn’t what they’re going for, I’m willing to do my bit for this noble corporation which pulls illegal immigrants out of American sweatshops and puts them back in the gutter where they belong. (It probably roughs them up a bit on the way too, spitting in their faces and, if they’re a teenage chick with a bit of a tan, dressing them in Appy gear and photographing them for one of their adverts). Hence why today’s wankathon is celebrating commerical jailbait of the trendiest variety.
As a bit of extra fun, wholly ripped-off from inspired by Andrea and the rest of those black-lashed blog-bunnies from Heartless Doll, I thought I’d put together a quiz for y’all to try out. It’s called American Apparel or pr0n; and it’s probably not safe for work. Unless you work for American Apparel, in which case your desk is probably damp with this stuff. You’re a bad man.
American Apparel or pr0n
Below are some teeny snippets of what I’ll describe as pretty racy shit. Some of these shots are from American Apparel adverts; some are from the dark side of the infoweb (which is kind of like the dark side of an iceberg in that it’s shady, wet and much, much bigger than the light side…). Your task is to sort out the marketing porn from the real pr0n. Click on the images to find out. How many did you get right?
3 responses so far ↓
thehitchcockblonde // August 22, 2008 at 4:55 pm |
Inspired. Just before AA opened, some over-effortfully dressed veck collared me on Dean Street and tried to persuade me to come work for them. Damn my haughty disdain :( Those kids evidently have a slippery, ab-flexed, groaning bag full of fun.
Crunkfish // August 22, 2008 at 6:18 pm |
Damn you, Blonde. Damn you and your endless supply of self-congratulatory anecdotes. You just make the rest of us look less interesting.
Deadlamb is taking over your internets | Deadlamb - The Blog // August 23, 2008 at 4:48 pm |
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