Glamourizing prostitution to sell lingerie.

[redqueen]

This is how Love, an English magazine has presented the Louis Vuitton 2013 Autumn/Winter collection. In the dim streetlight, super models (Cara Delevingne for a start) are dressed-up as Montmartre’s ladies-of-the-night: wearing nothing but a silk negligée under a man’s coat. She wanders about on the pavement, casually spreading her coat to reveal the silk lingerie inside. Then, slow moving cars pull up alongside and are instantly lured into their trap…


http://www.parischerie.com/25698/sidewalk-seduction-louis-vuittons-prostitution-scandal/

"... lured into their trap."

Really? It's bad enough that they'd use prostituted women to hawk their product, but they had to take it a step further, and reinforce the narrative that it's the prostituted class who holds the power.

Yes, right. She's the one trapping men. They're helpless and she's the one holding all the power in these transactions. It's not the men who use and abuse women who hold the power, oh heavens no...

[WCLinolVir]

1. Well as usual a real disconnect from reality.

I think this is only aimed at higher incomes. Having seen the women and men of Montmartre, the thought of lingerie costing hundreds of dollars for work wear is ludicrous. These look like bored rich women who are slumming, desperate. and ambivalent. Like they can't find their comfort zone! Maybe the lingerie is to blame. If I was the model I know what I'd be thinking-I can't believe I agreed to do this. I may fire my agent.

[msongs]

2. so, why do women buy these clothes that are being modeled? nt

[Squinch]

3. Oh, boy, that is creepy. And don't overlook the way they are all made up to look

like identical, interchangeable fembots, to put the icing on the objectification cake.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. that is just sad.

and this coming from someone who actually likes haute couture for the design and art factor alone. this was just pitiful. whoever came up with the concept should be fired and the team failed miserably on execution and should go back to design school. It just failed on all levels except as an insult to women and men everywhere.

[niyad]

5. dear goddess, that was more than a little bit creepy. even if I could afford such, would never do

so after that ad campaign. the whole ad team needs to be fired.