Paleo Retiree writes:
Thanks to Diesel for this very hot set of posters I ran across the other day:
Suicide Girls goes Bollywood on a Harley is my best stab at describing the feel of the concept. Can you do better?
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- Eddie Pensier celebrated some sexy ads from Yves Saint-Laurent and linked to an entertaining passage from a recent Bollywood movie.
- Some details about the campaign, whose images were shot by Nick Knight on an iPhone. More.
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
Uncouth Reflections 
That first one is a stunner…..and I hate tattoos…
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Not a tattoos-on-girls fan myself, but exceptions do need to be made. Not that it matters, but I find the second shot even sexier than the first. Alt sexiness can have a lot going for it.
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Lady Gaga fans play dress-up in their parents’ garage.
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Prozac Chic.
Other than the subjects being nubile and half-naked, everything else looks awful. The lights aren’t turned on, the colors are pale and stale, and their faces show severe clinical depression. They did all they could to drain the libido out of a should-be sexy ad campaign.
Did the art director realize that terminally depressed women have no sex drive, and that a palpable vibe of “I’m too sad for sex” would frustrate a red-blooded male audience? Of course not — he’s a geeky, airheaded, flaming homo.
The Suicide Girls may lean toward bitchy and hammed-up, and lord knows they’re crusted with tattoos. But you can actually see vivid color, light glowing off of their flesh, and faces and body poses that suggest an at least halfway functioning libido. They’d be annoying to talk to, and poison as a long-term girlfriend, but for a good ol’ romp in the sack, those chicks would actually be fun!
Do their pictures give off such a different vibe because the company is not run by a clique of clueless queers? Why, yes.
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How do you diagnose that by looking at a photograph?
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I’m sure there’s some very scientific phrenology-worthy reasoning in there somewhere.
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I think Agnostic’s comments are full of good descriptions, comparisons and evocations. I just find the whole trendy package of this campaign sexy in a kinky-decadent way. And where erotic and aesthetic pleasure goes I’ve got absolutely nothing against kinky or decadent …
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Fair enough Paleo, But “severe clinical depression” is not something you can tell by looking at an advertisement. You could say they look “glum” or “bored” or even “depressed” which has an everyday meaning separate to its diagnostic one. Clinical depression is not, in this case, distinguishable from the photographer saying “pout, baby, pout” and if Agnostic thinks otherwise, I would be genuinely curious as to how he knows the difference.
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