This Is How You Do "Cultural" Advertising.
Best Ads Of The Last 50 Years: #9.
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Brands always be trying to become part of Culture. Trying way to hard, way too clumsily, obviously. Usually it happens by accident, like with: Just Do It; Where’s The Beef; and Wassup.
Back in the early 1990s, a jeans brand that was not Levi’s gave it a stab. And made quite a deep wound.
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