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Agent Provocateur window displays in House of Fraser

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Fairyflaps · 31/01/2019 07:12

These 2 images are among several massive photos filling the window displays at our local House of Fraser store promoting Agent Provocateur. The windows face onto the towns main pedestrianised shopping street, so there is no avoiding them if you go into town.

Am I right in thinking these are not appropriate images for such a public space? Within the lingerie department in the store maybe, but not on the High Street.

Going into the store and talking to the manager has not been successful. She just said that decisions on window displays was made by their head office, and I would have to take it up with them. Their website says it may take several days for them to respond to an email, and I have not been able to find a phone number for their head office.

What do you think?
And any suggestions of how I can complain more effectively?

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WokerThanWoke · 01/02/2019 10:58

I am confused as to why you’d want knickers that give you a builder’s bum? Is this a new trend?

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 01/02/2019 10:57

They forgot the actual underwear on the second one.

Only thing that’s left is the packaging ribbon.

WhereYouLeftIt · 01/02/2019 10:53

Looking at the lighting on the first photograph, her chin does indeed look like a bellend!

TBH it's a bit of a shit photo all round. The posture looks as if she's checking for zits or chin hairs and her facial expression suggests she's found some. Her hands look as if she's just hooked her knickers out of her crack, and the bra's riding up at the back so it doesn't even fit.

Indeed, that a manufacturer can use an image of their lingerie products that shows they don't know what size bra someone should wear and their pants ride up - well, they're a bit shit at their job, aren't they?

WunderBlah · 01/02/2019 01:11

Eugh grim. Just depressing.

Are we supposed to want to look like that?

I think I'll spend my money in a shop that shows respect for women instead. Thanks for letting us know where you stand Fraser's.

Moononthehill28 · 01/02/2019 01:07

Totally inappropriate. Everyone needs to comment on Twitter or write in to complain.

Illyria47 · 01/02/2019 00:48

Tasteless, trashy, tawdry, tarty. Ultimately though, boring as all get out. Laughable even. Perhaps the black stuff is duct tape, that which Trump is convinced women are being bound in and smuggled across the Southern Border!.

OdeToDiazepam · 31/01/2019 22:16

Also happy to complain if you have an email or number

OdeToDiazepam · 31/01/2019 22:16

My first thought on the first photo was that her hands were bound? I had to look quite closely to see they weren't, maybe that's the suggestion?

Mind you I have just watched that ted bundy thing so maybe it's on my mind Sad

whymewhynow · 31/01/2019 22:14

There is something very strange about the light on the first one's throat/mouth. And the second one has something around her neck.
I thought she had shaving cream on at first. When I looked closer, I decided the bright light was to check for chin hairs. Sexy Grin

hoodathunkit · 31/01/2019 22:09

There is something very strange about the light on the first one's throat/mouth

There is a photoshopped lighter area over the mouth that, when combined with the photoshopping of the neck and collarbone, shows the image of an erect penis and testicles superimposed upon the woman's face and neck.

Subliminal advertising I think

Superchill · 31/01/2019 20:43

Does the first one have a goitre?

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 31/01/2019 20:42

The first one looks like she's straining to do a poo.

MargueritaPink · 31/01/2019 19:39

There is something very strange about the light on the first one's throat/mouth

She looks as if she has vitiligo. Fair enough if she has - but if she hasn't, it's poor lighting.

Oxytocindeficient · 31/01/2019 19:33

Yeah I think tweeting etc may give them what they want. A boycott is so much more effective. They will not get any more of my money.

SignMeUp · 31/01/2019 19:18

There is something very strange about the light on the first one's throat/mouth. And the second one has something around her neck.

Am I paranoid to associate this with choking? Advertising photography is very deliberate in all aspects and often plays to subliminal messages.

Superchill · 31/01/2019 19:03

Well, it's not exactly sexy, is it? Unhappy very slim women gurning in badly fitting underwear.

It only offends me in that I think it's bad taste. Ignore them, and watch the profits fall. They must want "all publicity is good publicity."

Fwiw, I'd like underwear marketed to me as fun, sexy like you enjoy it, and well fitting.

13thWarriorWitch · 31/01/2019 18:56

Oh dear. The first one looks like she's hoiking her knickers out of her bum crack. The second looks like a "bondage bra" got out of control.

Also, sussies? Really? Christ get a clue.

Thisnamechanger · 31/01/2019 18:45

I think they look gorgeous Blush

FromEden · 31/01/2019 18:42

The second one looks like a posed dead body. So sexy! Confused

Annasgirl · 31/01/2019 17:15

I saw this last Friday as I walked through their store in Dublin. I was disgusted. Also the display had three male managers ogling over it🙄🙄🙄. I decided there and then HoF would never get another penny of mine.

I had read that AP was suffering due to the MeToo movement but not sure if this is the way to get revenue up.

WhereYouLeftIt · 31/01/2019 15:53

I'm not sure HoF monitors their twitter account any more. The last activity on @houseoffraser was August 2018 - 5 months ago - and it's all about the change of ownership, gift cards will not be honoured etc. I'm guessing whoever used to deal with it got made redundant, and whoever is in charge now hasn't noticed (and are thus incompetent) or doesn't care (which is still incompetence).

Calvinsmam · 31/01/2019 13:46

I think the best response to it is to just shout about how unfashionable and out of touch it is.

The clothes are ugly, and it’s about 15 years out of date.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 31/01/2019 13:24

she is positioning her bottom in such a way that there is an implication that she is inviting anal sex

Erm, maybe "from behind", but that doesn't always (and never in my personal experience) mean anal sex.

littlbrowndog · 31/01/2019 13:12

Yeah the black stringy thing. Jeez. How would you even get that thing on
Gawd

Calvinsmam · 31/01/2019 13:06

So as far as advertising goes neither makes me think of shopping in HoF, in my mind it’s not coming back from the brink but I’m wondering who is going to replace our local one

Me neither, I’m hoping for a Zara.