I’m not sure what the recent fascination with vaginas is really about, but now on top of using wipes, I need to be completely waxed? Damn.
Dear Tom,
May I call you Tom? I get it, you are sexier than Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors and Zac Posen combined– and probably a hell of a lot wealthier. And yes, when you went to Gucci in the 90s, you resurrected the line with your innovative and sexy designs (We will always remember Toni Braxton in the “Un-break My Heart” video rocking the white dress with the circle cut out on the side)
But what in the hell is this? That is not alluring. Where are the pubes? Whose vagina is that? A twelve year-old’s? Jenna Jameson’s? Why can we see your face and not the woman’s? Better yet, what does this have to do with a MAN’S COLOGNE?
Next time, show us a penis. It may not pretty, but at least it will be relevant.
xoxo,
KT
P.S. No one puts that much body oil down there–EVER.
P.P.S. A little less photoshopping in the face. You’re fly without it.
P.P.S.S. Aren’t you gay?
September 14, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I remember that dress. So that was him that said he makes clothes for athletic, sexy women? Hmm. I think I read about it in the Time Magazine people’s page years ago.
(That last link is leading back to your blog. Is it supposed to be that way?)
September 17, 2007 at 3:45 pm
tom ford is gay. after you recover from the shock of a gay male fashion designer, let’s talk about why a cologne ‘for’ men (coincidentally but not innocuously created by a man who happens to be in a long-termer with a man) has anything to do with a pre-pubescent vagina. would a cologne ‘for’ women promote itself in an ad with a pre-pubescent penis on it?! now we know women & men are not equal in any aspect of this society and it makes us mad. what do we do next?
September 17, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Divadyke,
What we can do about it is keep speaking out about this type of nonesense. I will contact the Women’s Media Center and Ms. Magazine to bring this to their attention, if they are not aware of it already.
March 9, 2008 at 3:44 am
as a man looking at this, I know why it will work; SEX SELLS! I saw one of the ads from the same campaign where the cologne is placed between a womans breasts. From a males perspective (not my own perspective), when it comes to sex, sex is just sex. It doesn’t need to be attached to any emotions… just instincts. As an advertising student, I see these ads as effective and brilliant for the market they’re trying to catch, however, I understand how it can make a woman uncomfortable.
Unfortunately, what I’ve seen thus far, I don’t feel that even talking will do the trick. Sex is a dominant commodity in society. It will only get worse… unfortunate, but I’ve yet to be proven wrong on that one.
P.S. The waxed genitalia. Not something I’m personally into doing, nor seeing. I know people who do it to seem younger, and people who do it because they feel more comfortable with no hair down there. So, is it pre-pubescent? or what the woman is comfortable with? …something to be debated about
April 3, 2008 at 9:30 pm
you have got to see the humour in these ads. I think they’re absolutely brilliant!