Comments on: Fashion & Farm Sex

Fashion & Farm Sex

heimkonsole — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 02:41:07 -0800

Fashion & Farm Sex Benneton Group company Sisley is well known for ...well, uhm... different images in advertising campaigns. Right now they're using cute animals and evil girls... What do you think about that?

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 03:00:06 -0800

I couldn't get past the "evil girls" so in an advertising aspect this ain't getting the marketing out. Artistically this site is rather "cute". Evil.Girls.Animals.

By: Hypnerotomachia

Hypnerotomachia — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 03:51:55 -0800

I love it.

By: MAYORBOB

MAYORBOB — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 04:00:29 -0800

Where do I go to join the Future Farmers of America?

By: HeikoH

HeikoH — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 04:04:06 -0800

they (sisley and benetton) have a flagship store here in hamburg. inside, they have huge blow-ups of those pictures that seem to attrakt quite some audience and attention. the site, sisley.com, has been up and running (and touting) the farm sex theme for quite some time. personally, i think it is funny and cute. then again, maybe that is just because i am weird and european ,-)

By: jeremias

jeremias — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 04:07:24 -0800

I thought it was just as annoying as any other advertising . . .

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 05:39:51 -0800

like everything else about fashion, I think it's dumb.

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 05:40:35 -0800

Up in my neck of the Northwoods, we prefer traditional farmer/livestock relationships.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 05:47:27 -0800

I dunno, looks like an advertising company using sex to sell product. Hey, lady, nice tits! Is there anything more to it? Post-911, America is looking for wholesome stuff like barnyard chic, instead of unwholesome stuff like heroin chic? Something like that? Doesn't look like the age of irony is over, though.

By: luser

luser — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 05:57:46 -0800

Anybody else click on the "milk" link under "Hungry for Love"? I think the close up of a woman's hand squeezing the cows teat with the milk squirting out, plus the other shot of the milk dribbling down her leg, well that's just great stuff. Great stuff!

By: danOstuporStar

danOstuporStar — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:00:49 -0800

any site that opens a new full screen window onLoad sucks sucks sucks ... no matter hot the porn is.

By: rodii

rodii — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:05:10 -0800

Appalling. And I don't mean offensive, just... cheesy. Well-photographed cheese, sexy cheese, cheese with nipples showing, but cheese nonetheless.

By: brigita

brigita — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:29:50 -0800

good lord, am i anyone's target demographic anymore? this brand of "shock" advertising is lazy advertising, IMO.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:44:12 -0800

I think it's pretty funny. Maybe dolphins will be next.

By: panopticon

panopticon — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:57:22 -0800

this is way too naughty to look at when you're at the office

By: jfuller

jfuller — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:20:35 -0800

If I were that pig I wouldn't have a thing to do with that snakey-looking woman. Parents, lock up your piglets.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:31:30 -0800

It was OK, so far as advertisements go. Plus they make OK clothes as well. I don't think farmyard sex is an obvious connotation for most people, unless you start a thread on it. :) It reminded me of Russ Meyer's Valley of the Ultra Vixens, only ther girls are, well, thinner. And, should a tangent be allowed in what seems to be a healthily tangential discussion: any site that opens a new full screen window onLoad sucks sucks sucks Does any wizard out there know how to cut them down to size, as they're becoming ubiquitous and indeed sucking, sucking, sucking at an increasing rate?

By: rodii

rodii — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:33:29 -0800

I don't think farmyard sex is an obvious connotation for most people, unless you start a thread on it. Uh... the image of the woman lying on the hay with milk running down her thighs didn't do that for you?

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:44:56 -0800

Shit, there I was all high and mighty and it turns out my mind's dirtier than yours - I thought the poster meant sex with farmyard animals...

By: bingo

bingo — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:49:08 -0800

The girl isn't nasty...it's the piggy that's nasty...the poor wittle girl just wants some wuv...

By: headspace

headspace — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:53:23 -0800

I am left baffled once again. I just don't get advertising, I guess. I don't understand how little Slim Jim man making you so sick to your stomach you explode should make me want to buy Slim Jims, I don't understand how sepia-toned people rolling around in the sand is supposed to make me want to buy perfume, and I really don't understand how a girl covered in milk-cum-spooge (man, Latin just made that sentence much worse) is supposed to make me want to buy those clothes. Anyone? Anyone at all?

By: rodii

rodii — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:57:44 -0800

Well, uh, the clothes are obviously very durable...?

By: suprfli

suprfli — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:07:25 -0800

i think this is dirty, disgusting and bizarre. i love it! btw, if the advertising gets people to talk about sisley then it's accomplished its mission.

By: bingo

bingo — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:08:08 -0800

Well, I was an advertising major once, and there is a popular idea that it doesn't make that much difference whether you like the ad. The point is that you remember the brand name. Supposedly, studies show that people are more likely to buy a product with an advertisement they hated than a product they're not familiar with. I would think it's just the familiarity factor.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:22:58 -0800

:::Deliverance flashbacks going through my mind...*shudder*:::

By: signal

signal — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:27:11 -0800

I agree with bingo, they were obviously trying to make something controversial, which in my opinion comes off as a little bit tame. The interface sucks, though.

By: luser

luser — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:31:43 -0800

Rodii and Miguel: the Sonny and Cher of the 00s. I'm laughing my ass off.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:32:35 -0800

Not quite porn, not quite art. What do they sell? I never quite figured that out.

By: tj

tj — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:42:53 -0800

I think they sell barnyard animals...

By: rodii

rodii — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:47:35 -0800

I got dibs on Cher.

By: TiggleTaggleTiger

TiggleTaggleTiger — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:59:39 -0800

Better than that, IMO, is Benetton's new Colors site.
Creepy.
Saddening.
Fashion!

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:00:09 -0800

Oh fuck, I'm dead.

By: skallas

skallas — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:33:20 -0800

What the hell is going on with the beneton colors ad? Are these supposed to be institutionalized people? Its so creepy its hilarious. Be warned, no sexy models here.

By: edamame

edamame — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:14:00 -0800

Yeah, Bingo, I think they're counting on the idea that you'll remember the name. But I have to say, I used to shop at Benetton/Sisley, and they've really crossed a line -- from being politically provocative to just plain disgusting -- and I now have a negative feeling and no desire to shop there. It's almost as strong as my adversion to FCUK. I absolutely will not shop there. I just feel like it isn't clever, it's ugly, and there's enough ugliness in the world. Not to mention plenty of other places for me to spend my cash money.

By: Charmian

Charmian — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:56:13 -0800

Visited the Benetton site. Don't really get it. Are those really the new outfits from Benetton?

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 14:36:05 -0800

The photographs of condemned inmates for Benetton's "We, On Death Row" advertising were obtained under false pretenses: the photographer said he was working for Newsweek. Benetton had to pay to settle a lawsuit. I am horrified by the photographs of what appear to be mentally ill men and women in Benetton's new Colors site. I do not believe these Cubans gave their informed consent to be used, to be exploited, for commercial purposes.

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:26:44 -0800

This is what happens with them there newfangled sexy adverts.....stay away from the sheep

By: dragline

dragline — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:28:58 -0800

OK I give up. When I go to www.sisley.com, I just get a black page with the word 'SISLEY' in the center. Can anyone give me a link to the 'goods'?

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:30:43 -0800

try again

By: modofo

modofo — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:36:40 -0800

dragline.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:46:44 -0800

Now I'm hungry for bacon and sex! Thanks a lot Sisley!