Tag: advertising
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Fashion Advertising and “Accidental” Sexism
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Ben Barry outlines the benefits of model diversity
Can using different types of models benefit brands? : Culture – Elle Canada. Ben Barry gives a fascinating overview of his dissertation on diverse models in fashion advertising. Kudos to Elle Canada for publishing the piece.
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Give A HUG
Not really fashion – but playing off Tameeka’s earlier entry about the underwear vending machine – I thought this was also pretty creative and definitely attention grabbing (even if it is old news and just now hitting the social media sites).
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FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
Mantyhose? Guylons? He-tards? Sound ridiculous yet familiar?
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Tech Couture: Fashion keeps a date with augmented reality
M Saraswathy’s brief BusinessWorld article (Tech Couture: Fashion keeps a date with augmented reality) outlines some recent uses of AR in advertising, including uses at Lakme Fashion Week. The article ends with a tempered approach suggesting that so far, advertisers have not been able to tell if AR translates into more sales.
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Is This the Future of Visual Merchandising?
A lovely young woman sits with her purse in her lap and her phone in her hands. She coyly smiles, looks around, and yawns as she waits in a department store. If a stranger begins to pester her, she ignores him. This scenario is fairly ordinary. However, this is no ordinary young woman: this is…
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H&M’s Emerging Media Blunder: Computer Generated Models
Retailer H&M has received some decidedly negative scrutiny recently for using computer generated models on their website. As reported on mashable.com the retailer came under fire for superimposing real models heads onto computer generated bodies to showcase a range of collections on it’s retail site. To the unsuspecting viewer nothing is amiss, however if one looks closely…