Sep 27, 2011

MAC, is this some sick joke?


Recently received a MAC email I guess to promote the new Fall Colour collections and I open the email and to my disbelief a picture of this woman pops up...This is what they used for marketing? Seriously?

It may be just me but I am not impressed and find the picture disgusting. Anyone out there that received the same email? What do you think about it? Please discuss....





4 comments:

  1. The reason behind the image, was MAC's fall colour collection was in collaboration with Cindy Sherman. She's an American photographer.. not really sure how to describe her work.. but it's "different". Just google Cindy Sherman Photography and you'll see. There are clowns in some of the MAC promo images because she photographed clowns or something like that. I didn't do too much research on it, but I know the woman in the promo image was suppose to look a little bit of a mess.

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  2. Natalie, thank you for explaining because I really thought MAC was going way out of the comfort zone in their marketing trials...I actually thought MAC had unintentionally sent out this email so I was prepared for them to send another after with an apology, lol. I admire their collaborations, at least most of them! Thanks again!

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  3. this.pic.is disgusting, were they on crack

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  4. If you read the writing to the right, it talks about the art of transformation. This is completely speculation, but I think that the individual in the photo may actually be a male being "transformed" into a woman using the MAC products. Hideous as he/she may be, the marketing got us talking...thus effective, no?

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