Luxury 360 is the FT's new online hub for creative and commercial coverage of the luxury goods industry, with news, views and special reports. — FT
Photo: Louis Vuitton - Ad Campaign
Just in time for holiday shopping and on your face money shot action, Financial Times launches its 'LUXURY 360' section, gazing through the global markets for lately thriving luxury goods industry.
"Go f*ck yourselves if you haven't arrived losers, pardon me, unhappy campers!"
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Oh my god, I was reading this with mounting dread until I got to the "Go f*ck yourselves" line - love you, Orhan!
how classist, sexist and racist an ad can get in the name of a fucking duffle bag!
It's not an advertisement, directly.
It's an art form called "tableau vivant." A tableau vivant, or living picture, is a type of performance art that depends on creating scenes using real people in completely staged and elaborate events where all of the objects are frozen as if it is a picture or painting.
Sometime in the 1970s and 1980s, the tableau vivant evolved into a new form usually involving a similar practice but captured by a photographer. It's essentially the complex form of staged photo but, unlike a staged photo, tries in no way to come off as authentic.
Which is kind of humorous because the artist, Vanessa Beecroft, often struggles with race and sexual identify in most of her work. Examples below:
And my favorite:
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