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There is something very wrong with this Agent Provocateur advert

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Ifancyanewname · 04/11/2011 08:13

www.agentprovocateur.com/soiree-video.html?theme=soireegold

Just seen this and its made me feel very uncomfortable, what do you think?

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sprogger · 07/11/2011 17:48

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TheSmallClanger · 07/11/2011 15:30

Actually, I've just had a quick squizz on Google News, and it's not been picked up much by anyone.

Which is a good thing.

sozzledchops · 07/11/2011 15:05

It got people talking about it though, result for them.

VeryLittleGravitas · 07/11/2011 12:36

What a revolting advert.

Women reduced to dead-eyed sex toys, and a sexual assault shot as salaciously as possible.

What, exactly is the subtext of this? Buy our pants, and you too can turn into a nymphomaniac zombie? No thanks, think I'll stick with my £3 Primark specials.

StewieGriffinsMom · 06/11/2011 22:58

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TryLikingClarity · 05/11/2011 21:20

Rubs eyes<

Some things just can't be un-seen, and that ad is one of them!

The women/robots look barely out of their teen years and all that crawling around on hands and knees just looks ill-advised.

I felt ill when they were dragging her along the floor, very poor taste ideas showing misogyny alongside deeply impractical and extortionately priced scraps of material.

Not good.

sobloodystupid · 05/11/2011 21:12

Eurgh. Repellent ad, repulsive method of peddling ...

PamBeesly · 04/11/2011 22:59

That 'ad' is vile. I know the obvious answer is underwear but I still can't figure out what they are trying to sel or how exactly they are trying to sell it. Who would want to be any part of that? Looking forward to AP's response

epicfail · 04/11/2011 22:09

It is a large stretch of the imagination to call any of that 'underwear'. Hideous ad.

TheSmallClanger · 04/11/2011 21:32

Warning tasteless pop art alert

I fail at links.

TheSmallClanger · 04/11/2011 21:31

Allen Jones should sue:

[http://coxsoft.blogspot.com/2007/11/allen-jones-latest.html Warning tasteless pop art alert]

SolidGoldVampireBat · 04/11/2011 21:13

It's Nathan Barley Hoxton Toss, really. Oo, look, it's referencing Scream and Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love. It's so ironic. But I can't actually see it tempting anyone to buy knickers.

smallwhitecat · 04/11/2011 20:50

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Selky · 04/11/2011 20:50

Art, my sharny arse. It just vomits derivative references at the screen and hopes some of them stick.

thenightsky · 04/11/2011 20:48

I immediately thought she'd been murdered and all that blood was a bit graphic, but then realised it was red lace arranged to look like blood... how sick is that? Shock

smallwhitecat · 04/11/2011 20:48

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Prolesworth · 04/11/2011 20:42

HAHAHAHA at "toe curlingly shit" and the whole concept of embarrassment glands Grin

smallwhitecat · 04/11/2011 20:40

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ElderberrySyrup · 04/11/2011 20:35

yes, it is full of cinematic references. This means it is witty, sophisticated Art, didn't you know? (I'm sure the ASA will buy that line, anyway.)

Selky · 04/11/2011 20:31

Ah Prolesworth beat me to it!

Selky · 04/11/2011 20:31

Good grief that is horrible!

The bit where all the women gather round her on their knees reminds me of scene in Dracula when the three sisters kill the baby.

It also reminds me of The Stepford Wives.

It in no way makes me want to buy knickers.

Prolesworth · 04/11/2011 20:31

I thought there were shades of the stepford wives in it as well. Sinister.

JuliaScurr · 04/11/2011 20:28

yy Elderberry, dp thought it was based on 'lesbian' porn for hetero men. Turn your gf into a robot. If aimed at women, the idea is to commodify yourself. Not much new there, but the unseen predator threat is a bit novel and quite unpleasant. Buy our drawers and get attacked by lesbian robot vampires in your own home!

ElderberrySyrup · 04/11/2011 20:13

they're aiming at porn-using men. Turn your normal girlfriend into a sex toy via vampiric girl on girl assault some expensive underwear.