Woman / 21st April 1967
Well, that’s me speechless. Has anyone else seen a perfume ad as pretentious as this one? What are all those men planning? No wonder she looks pensive…
Tags: adverts totally made of wrong, beauty, blatant sexism, retail
Sefi on 19 October 2009 @ 12pm
Hello Ribbit. I miss the days when ‘talc’ was an option in beauty care. Other than that the fellow on the far left is especially sinister. They all look like they are in the BNP.
Rob S on 19 October 2009 @ 1pm
I think they’re all secretly trying to work out the optimal time to kick away the chair she’s obviously standing on
Zagrebo on 20 October 2009 @ 5pm
I think the men are standing around wondering when she’s going to move on so they can finish building the church doorway they’ve started.
Mike Green on 11 July 2010 @ 3pm
Interesting bit of design, this, coming out of the Futurist strand of Sixties design which got swamped by psychedelia and pretty much forgotten. It wouldn’t have looked too out of place in the early 80s. That typeface is amazingly minimalist for 67.
John Hoare on 19 October 2009 @ 2am
Ah, gang rape. How romantic.