The piece I posted last week in reaction to Levi’s Go Forth ad campaign generated a lot of commentary. Beyond whether people agreed with my thoughts on advertising or not, the post created a heated discussion about race in advertising. Here are some of the comments made:
Christine Huang thanked us for striking up the conversation and said:
As you aptly put it – the campaign just fails to reflect the America – country of “pioneers” and fearless individualists – it’s claiming to represent. It just fails to connect. Perhaps WK was going for timelessness, but all I see is irrelevance. Today’s [...]

Photographed by what must be millions of tourists, the New York mural at the entrance to SoHo on the corner of Houston Street and Broadway has been painted over. We’d assume that this was probably done at the request of Hollister – the new store leasing space in the building.

[Imgs via BoweryBoogie and EddieWall and tip via Racked]