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Tom Ford Beauty
767 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10153
Phone: (212) 572-4200
Tom Ford Main Office
845 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10021
Phone: (212) 359-0350
Our Gallery of Offenders is for educational purposes, and to give our web site visitors the chance to contact media-makers directly to tell them what they think. The items are mostly chosen from the U.S. mainstream media available in the last year, using an independent process. We are never making fun of models/actors themselves, but the environment they exist within. Please submit your picks on our Contact page.
archive page 5: What, this fragrance didn’t smell good enough already?
Questions to Consider:
- What product is this ad selling?
- Where is the product placed?
- What is the woman's role in the images?
What We Think:
In this particular Tom Ford ad, the man is fully clothed and being groped by someone else who is obviously female. There is no visible clothing on the woman. The man has a look of complete satisfaction. The advertiser is trying to appeal to straight men. This ad is degrading to women in general because it uses a woman’s body as a prop against which to show the perfume bottle.
– Holly Crimmins (About-Face intern) and About-Face web site visitor Frederikke Lindholm
