Agent Provocateur window displays in House of Fraser

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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?

I agree they're ugly. But there's more to it than that, for me. They look like they are deliberately posing the women as victims.
Particularly the second one

The backgrounds are weird too. The first one looks like a cheap motel and the second one looks like an interrogation room.

It's the way she looks to me Marguerita. Particularly in the reflection. All adding to the victim look that this chap seems to favour.

Stinging email sent. I’m so very tired off this firefighting .....

The ugliness of the photos is, I suspect, a deliberate nod to 70s Polaroid porn - the models are coldly lit and the environment sparse and a bit tatty, like a cheap motel room.

Ok Datun. I agree about posing them as a victim. That is what I meant about the backgrounds being odd.

You can't see much of the background but the first looks like the sort of really cheap hotel where you don't dare walk around barefoot- the area of floor has a horrible grubby carpet look about it. And the other looks like an interrogation room. Neither look like rooms one would willingly spend time in.

I agree. So what on earth kind of person does he think wants to buy stuff that is advertised like this?

I wouldn't assume it is a man. There is a vile AP video ad where all the creative input was by woman.

Oh dear... just saw in the news that Mike Ashley might be losing rather a lot of money on his Debenhams investment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47864580

Karma then.

I am chuckling at the idea that thes items are not practical and don't look comfortable though, as if anyone would buy these items for practicality and comfort smile

You would never get men buying uncomfortable undercrackers, no matter how keen they were to impress a women.