#the ads

[fashionbooksmilano]

self service 1994-2022, The Ads

IDEA, London 2022, 344 pages, Softcover, 23x30cm. , Edition of 1000 copies

euro 100,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

More than 300 fashion ads from 28 years of Self Service magazine in this one book. Instantaneously the definitive reference to contemporary fashion advertising. Raf Simons, APC, Prada, Balenciaga, more Raf Simons! It is stunning. See how the ads have changed from the nineties to today. See the loops and cycles as the first ads in the book become reference for the latter. There's Darwin's Theory of Evolution and there is Self Sevice, The Ads

09/12/23

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

"good girl, the feminine fragrance"

those 5 words feel like a crime against feminism

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

thomas sanders looooooves fucking. doing shit doesn't he

I’d honestly rather him just bluntly say he does not care anymore than continue whatever this pantomime is

[insane-in-the-membranee]

Lost in the melody of the 2000s – where Nokia absolutely ruled, Bollywood was BOLLYWOOD, and life was just better (because I was a kid lmao.) 🕰️🎶

#ThrowbackToThe2000s

[rat-rosemary]

I swear to God these alligator water puzzles were not this hard when I was little

[pacdevil]

im leaving this app im so mad

[waxsuyaaa]

CLICK HERE NOW TO GIVE BIRTH

RICE RISOTTO JR MY SON AHSHAHAHAHA also scoirge sour sgourc scon shrcre skrillex scrobcke scone dour scourge

The final stage of every OC's creation is having to go through websites like this to name it:

[m0thmancore]

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[pookapufferfish]

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[puppppppppy]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[hansoeii]

the honda odyssey, huh?

[ravenkings]

while being depressing, this is also sort of fascinating to me bc there’s something so…inauthentic here. what i mean is that if you saw something like this back in say 2001 (which you probably wouldn’t, at least for carl’s jr. but i digress) it would seem tacky but in a “sex sells” sort of way.

seeing this in 2025, it’s clearly purely a political statement and you can tell partially bc the image itself is so oddly sexless. it’s like there’s more titillation in the prospect of “owning the libs” than in the image of the scantily clad blonde white woman itself.

[girlypopz123]

The pills meme but it's things i wish i had