The Most Outrageous And Offensive Fashion Ads Of This Century.
Outrageous and Offensive doesn't = Good.
First off, some of these you’ve probably seen but many of them you haven’t because I scanned them from various magazines.
Second off, I’m excluding the scores of sleazy American Apparel ads because if I posted them all, I’d crash Substack’s servers.
Fashion ads are mostly not created by ad agencies. They are created by photographers who call themselves “fashion creative directors” who often scoff at ad agency people because we don't have the unfettered freedom fashion ad makers have.
Fine. Here’re some examples of that unfetteredness.
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