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NATURAL VIBRATIONS
( Marithe Francois Girbaud 2000 FW )
ph::Geoffroy de Boismenu
a soft clean cutie - the parents, as a kid i’ve always longed for this Vegetable Disneyland morally perfect purity ☹
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MARS ( The Face 1994 March ) photog::Andrea Giacobbe
can u believe this was made in fkn 1994? like tf…..iconic genius
all the current photographers havent copied this yet but wait in like 2 years giacobbe will be like norbert schoerner all over again.
Anyways im 1000% gonna remake this with my friends i live in a cow town so its perfect brb
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Heals’ Furniture Store (June 2004) ph::Nadav Kander
really like nadav’s ad work (not this one in particular this is just for my page flow aesthetic), interesting distinct ideas good creative direction but also, most importantly, its pretty. hahahaha
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Marie Clarie ( Spring 1995 ) photog::Andrea Giacobbe
giacobbe <3333 ahead of his time king
apparently he’s not doing photography anymore though :( cause i cant find anything
i like his style of anarchic foto manipulation most!! glimpses of mastery.
i like his editing way more than the others like inez&vinoodh, steven klein, and it’s more edgy than the perfectionistic norbert schoerner.
+ he still has a really good painterly eye despite the rebellion
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HUMANATURE
( Marithe Francois Girbaud 2001 SS )
ph::Nadav Kander
aw i remember my science purity aesthetic phase <3 this is it <3 like the California Science Center <3
also MFG is maddd underrated on their ads. Some of their other ones are drop dead gorgeous. Unique odd creative direction that’s like my perfect sweet spot between an eye for fashion photography beauty aesthetic and traditional advertising conceptual interestingness.
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PSYCHéDéLIQUE ( Numéro #156 Sept 2014) by::Stéphane Sednaoui
going a bit mad still :,(
THE REST OF THIS ED IS COOL but i cut it off for the flow of my page
bye! <3 luv u stay safe <3
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FLOWER (KENZO Fragrances 2000) dir::Jerome Esch
music1::You’re Not Alone by Olive
music2::Near Dark by Burial
Changed the music to Burial cause wtf is this upbeat john mayer they originally put with this stunning world excuse me it completely devalues it
I COULDN’T pick between the two songs, they have different effects on the ad but i love both. The 1st one is much warmer and achingly end-0f-life nostalgic and humane emotional. But for the 2nd i like the mood is less direct and harder to pinpoint and more interesting and sharp (and i sound design edited it better.) But i kinda like the emotional seesaw of them playing right after one another.
The music makes it too depressing for an ad tho. Like she closes her eyes and breathes in the scent of her dead boyfriend and starts drowning in overwhelming grief lmao. But idk melancholy makes much more sense to me here!
I’m in w LOVE this clean surreal world, i wanna bathe n its fairytale lucidity ugh <3. There’s so many untapped aesthetics that i see so much potential in that makes me ache to become a director or something but beep boop i am already computer
I’ve been compiling all sorts of ads, non fashion (like diesel etc) and I’m very fascinated by like this turning point in ads between fashion to non fashion. Like Diesel is a fashion brand, so is Kenzo, so is marithe girbaud, but a lot of their ads feel not like fashion. But there’s often this very very subtle turning point that turns it into style (I used to study antonio lopez’s illustrations for this exact quality.) Like you can take a picture of a naked person and it can look like a fashion or youth culture editorial, but at what point does it turn into adveritsial commentary or documentary is interesting
I think i’ve always very much aspired to the capitalistic aggression of the concepts and ideas on non-fashion ads. And I think the ads/eds for brands like prada or versace that i was drawn to have that aggression, like a unstoppable hunger and focus to impress and perform. But most fashion output doesn’t have that imo :/ like it relies to much on aspirational hotness of the models or the clothes
Anyways I have lotssss of thoughts about advertising (but less from a business perspective, more of in creative idealism way), and I swear I was meant for that creative industry in another life.
SPECIFICALLY IN PERFUME ADS. I think my brain works in terms of perfume ads. I’ve always had these weird abstract 10 seconds loops of videos and moments from movies and real life and songs in my head, that I’d play over and over again. TV perfume ads have that incoherence that makes no sense but EFFECTIVELY makes emotional sense and that is 100% how my brain works.
BALENCIAGA (Dazed & Confused #51 1999 Feb. ) by::Vincent Peters
favorite ed ever :,) Invokes a million things i don’t know how to explain or describe like finding home in warm loneliness and soft insanity. Also I too am in love with being on the floor and this ed in general is to a T how i feel when out in public lol
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RADICE QUADRATA (Vogue 2001 D.P.) by::Anna Piaggi
i- her mind
Anna has a beautiful quality that i like to call constructive rebellion. It’s kinda like wholesome anarchy aka how children intrinsically are. imo the most beautiful/correct/talented way to go through life. Deviating but focusing on the conclusion, not the the actual act of rebellion, or anger/blame towards anything. It’s really soft and i have a lot of soft anarchy heroes like her. She almost reminds me of outsider artsometimes?
Rebellion is natural, it doesn’t make sense for anyone’s brain to 100% (or even 20%) line up with social norms, popular lines of thought, the language they speak, or the way physics equations dictate the movement of whatever objects are doing. But rebellions of my personal exertions have always wasted energy on blame and anger or youth ego.
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WIRED (Dazed & Confused #121 1998 December) by::Sølve Sundsbø
i need a cultural reset pls :(
What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever under construction yet never constructed, to be like his own destroyed life.
full ed is here, and uber clear version here. I feel a sweetness towards incomplete construction. Like if I’m walking around miserably between point A to point B and the world feels flat with stasis of not being @ either of the points, sometimes in between I might pass by a building not yet completed and it fills me with fairytales. I don’t know why but I think it’s related to that platonov quote ^
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