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since I’m pressed for time…

21Nov08

Since I’m pressed for time and since American Apparel’s sexy sexed-up ads are a revived topic of conversation here and elsewhere, I’m going to leave you with my favorite AA ad, which can be found on the back of S Magazine:

My general feeling is that all ads use sex to sell. AA just does it unusually well.

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1 Fifty-One-Fifty on Nov 21st, 2008 said:

That was my favorite too, and I even posted this ad and wrote an entry on my old personal blog.
2 A Fan on Nov 21st, 2008 said:

Except my first thought was, My God, her right arm is freakishly hairy.
3 Disconnected on Nov 22nd, 2008 said:

Yaaay for that! :D
4 Alexa on Nov 22nd, 2008 said:

My general feeling is that all ads use sex to sell. AA just does it unusually well.

Agreed, on both points.
5 tweaked on Nov 22nd, 2008 said:

I just thought I’d say, putting this ad on your site is genius. This is the first time I’ve turned adblock off in months!
6 badinfluencegirl on Nov 22nd, 2008 said:

A Fan> I TOTALLY DID THAT TOO!

and then the androgyny of it is really hot.
7 farina on Jan 17th, 2010 said:

I always heard the main objection to AA’s ads not being that they used sex to sell (because duh, as you say, name an advertiser that doesn’t), but that they continually present women in stereotyped, submissive, coyish, coquettish. I tend to agree. It would be nice to see more women in their ads looking powerful and self-possessed. Or for that matter, some men presented as submissive, coyish, coquettish…