This blog on Adbusters about Shepard Fairey’s latest work with Saks made for an interesting read...
"Fairey has partnered with Saks Fifth Avenue to create a Constructivist-inspired marketing campaign for the high-end retailer’s Spring season. Appropriating the style of one of his favorite go-to artists, Alexander Rodchenko, Fairey is doing what he does best – recycling politically-charged imagery in a way that is completely devoid of meaning. Borrowing from the aesthetic of 20th century workers’ rights movements, Fairey’s designs depict models with raised fists “arming themselves” with designer handbags. “Want It!” scream shopping bags in the same bold, graphic style that artists emerging from the Russian Revolution used to encourage the overthrow of the old social order."
Check the rest here
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
jesus, what has this man come to...
dont like add buster they go on like they can save the world !
and there so squeaky clean
consumerism ! ! !
it will fucking save our economy at this moment in time . . .
Post a Comment