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O, American Apparel! Whenever will the "culture jammers" solve the dilemma as to whether it is okay to shop there? Anyway, the above billboard, spotted in Soho, purports to be an American Apparel ad depicting the backside of a naked woman leaning over to display her ass while rubbing her privates from behind. Tasteful! Well, it was a spoof, as evidenced by the fact that it was replaced as of ten minutes ago this morning with a Joe's Jeans ad, but in its short lifespan it managed to convince the advertising blogger Copyranter and my friend Don, which just goes to show you what we've come to expect from American Apparel. And to the culture jammers' credit, this spoof looks like it could have been an "inside" job: the tag line: "Safe to say she loves her socks," is the exact same tag line they used on an ad for their signature tube socks featuring the porn star Lauren Phoenix. And, if the email from internal AA sources last time we wrote about American Apparel is anything to go by, morale at the company is not all coked-up exuberance and bandeau-bedecked orgies!
I'm stuck in a hipster Cathy cartoon.
American Apparel Inserts Mindlessly Provocative Billboard In Soho [Copyranter]
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I like it! It's exactly the feeling I get seeing those skinny pre-pubescent girls looking creepy and Fiona Apple-ish in those weird ads.
i'm not sure, anatomically speaking, that the chick in the first image is doing what you claim she is doing.
i wonder how many of the "models" HAVEN'T banged the American Apparel owner to be in an ad.
@helen: yeah...that looks more like...back door action.
That seems like a pretty strange location for her clitoris.
@helen: Yes, her finger is elsewhere...
I think I would rather look at that than a real ad.
@helen: Yeah, me neither.
She seems to be putting "one in the stink", in fact.
oh and shes totally diddling her butt.
@helen: Damn it, beaten to the punch. :P
Dark nail polish! So on-trend!
@thenewlight: She's also got four fingers on that hand, evidently. Unless there are possibly two in the stink there.
Anyoe got that faceless line drawing's number? She sounds fun.
I dislike American Apparel. I can get better t's at Banana Republic without hipster attitude.
Brilliant. And yes, she's def sticking her finger up her ass.
i wonder if dov charney tried to sleep with the line drawing? he tries to do anything else that has an american apparel tag on it.
I'm just surprised that the "her s" isn't a "c".
@Furious_George: She probably lost one in a leotard accident. Those bitches cut.
That ad is such a rip-off of a Bounce Fabric Softener ad from 1997.
i hope this an adbusters homework assignment. brilliant.
Oh wow. I would like to shake the hand of whoever put this up in SoHo.
Also, I think that line drawing really needs to eat a sandwich. She's giving Angelina a run for her bony-ass money.
And, appropriately, the nastiest element of that picture is, in fact, the socks.
I don't know if it's her clit, probably her asshole. Seems a little far back, no?
@hortense: Sock/ heel combo, in fact.
@hortense: @katastic: well what else do you do wear after digital anal stimulation?
Last time I shopped there it looked like the second string team from the Xandu show donated their wares. Not sure this ad will really entice anyone into the store, unless you receive a free fisting with proof of purchase...no other reason to buy that shit.
Yeah, thanks to Tyra Banks, I know where the clitoris is now. And it ain't back there! Please let this ad teach American Apparel some sort of lesson.
Amazing. I can still smell the cigarettes and body odor emanating from this line drawing. American Apparel does it again!
Roast beef?
stick in a thumb, pull out a plumb
@richcreamerybutter: That really makes my entire day.
In other news, this looks like the kinds of ads I saw in Moscow on the Metro in 1996...buttered up naked woman standing on two totally naked guys like they were skees...it was an ad for bottled water. Why not?
@MsKenney: Oh wow. I would like to shake the hand of whoever put this up in SoHo. I'll pass on that. Never know where that hand has been.
@Rachelattack: Uh, now that you mention it, I suppose so. Nothing like the idea of putting my finger up my own ass to get me all randy and shit.
She's digging out a pair of cotton spandex jersey hot shorts, the silver color.
Five bucks to the city mouse who runs over to this billboard with a Sharpie and scrawls, MOM, IS THAT YOU????????
@nocakebuttevah: If she digs long enough, will she find her dignity, too?
I'm glad this has been documented and will go down in nyc history or some such nonsense. seriously! much better than any other AA ad i've ever seen
I'm sure this was across the street from a school or something too right?
Whoever put this up is only making things worse. Dov is probably trying to figure out how he can get away with tweaking said pose for a campaign promoting sheer tights.
@pantycrickets:
Soho, so I doubt it. Are there even schools there?
Who remembers the onion headline
"14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid"
?
Yes she would be playing with her ass.
"Coked-up exuberance and bandeau-bedecked orgies" doesn't this seem like a normal night at JFP's?
Is this an "Artist's Rendering" from 2 Girls 1 Cup?
@Al Navarro: No! No! No! I will not allow that video to infiltrate the sanctity of Jezebel! No! Bad!
@Scratcher: LMAO!
@MichaelJordan: yep, that's the first thing I think of, whenever I see an AA posting!
I love how it says "rubbing her privates from behind" now. Don't worry, nobody saw the clitoris thing! It never happened.
Brown is the new black! Didn't anyone watch Nip/Tuck last week?
This is so special. (Also? Mm, booty fit.)
It's only a matter of time before they actually use these as ads...
@Rachelattack: Definitely the a-hole. That's how the AA girls like it. I think the girl in the vandalized ad on Houston posed for this sketch.
Someone please tell whats-his-name that non-sweatshop workplaces are supposed to provide toilet paper to their employees.
But does anyone's asshole look like that? There's a very confused artist out there somewhere...