CURIOUSER NEW YORK

It's getting hot in here... There are a few people out there, who are still not sure how to feel about the recent Chanel ad that features Brad Pitt.  

Two years ago I happened to be in the South of France and visited The French Riviera, including Cannes. It was in June, right fresh after the Cannes Film Festival, which happens in May each year. The red carpet was still there. The posters and big billboards of Cannes and celebrities were still there, and the 'atmosphere', thanks to the tourists, was somewhat festive... Of course, I had to 'inspect' the city and make my own impression of it, rather than from the blue screens of the television during the festival, when it's all about fab, fun and glitter. Here's how I saw it....

A while ago - [about 20 years ago, to be exact] -  I've noticed   that the commercials shown abroad are neither the same as the ones shown (by the same brand) in USA nor they are as creative and sexy - [and on the border of 'pushing the envelop'] - as the ones shown to the Americans. There's just a lot lost over the ocean... 

I'm seriously in trouble - I'm in love with Brian Atwood and ...his fringe shoes, Charlene! [Yes, my dear friends, I'm a lesbian - I'm in love with the 'lady' Charlene ...] I know, I know - from the first glance at this shoe, you'd probably call me 'Craaaazy', because it's so 'Uuuugly' ...but it's like with a Sphynx cat , you first think it's the ugliest cat you've ever seen, but then, once you touch it, hold it - you'd realize that it's kind of cute, actually .... Well, hello, Charlene.... However, my 'fringe' shoe affair hasn't just appeared out of the blue. It's been rather triggered by the saucy videos preceding the up-close and personal encounter with the shoes. Blame it all on Brian Atwood!

Whoever knows me well, knows that I've bee obsessed with the advertising industry since high school. I used to go through all kinds of print ads, tear them off from the magazines and re-do them: text/slogans and the visuals. Back in my NYC days when I experimented with the ads' like black and white photography...

This B Brian Atwood Resort 2011 is so damn sexy and seductive and the vibrant colors make a strong statement, encouraging a woman to be more adventures and colorful. Is the desire to be irresistible in style? Always...

How do you feel about fashion brands becoming messengers instead of being the message? This is the future of the fashion labels entering and playing the social / digital media field. They go, and we follow...