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Miss Dior Advertising In Advertising

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For many people in the world to see an advertisement and move past it because they find them rather annoying has become the normalcy of today’s society. However, if people actually paid attention to those advertisements the readers would find that they think some of the ads should not have been allowed. An ad for Miss Dior perfume was presented in a late issue of Vogue with a model who looks to be about twenty-four years old. The model has shoulder length blonde hair, a clear skin tone, and a facial expression that could be considered provocative. The model is naked and only covered by a dress that she holds up which still only covers a portion of her top, middle section, and private area. Despite this dress, her complete right leg, thigh, arm, neck, and shoulders are revealed. In the foreground is a Miss Dior perfume bottle with the words “Miss Dior and you, what would you do for love?”. In Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly 4, she states that advertisements often send certain messages about women. Kilbourne claims that unrealistic ideas of women are often proposed within ads, such as symbolizing women as objects and not people, or even the idea that if you are not beautiful, then you are nothing. In the Dior advertisement, a few of its aspects uphold statements made by Jean Kilbourne such as sexualizing models to sell a product, emphasizing the idea of looking young and attractive, and placing models in vulnerable positions.
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