Christina of Finland?
I was wandering down Oxford Street the other day when I stumbled upon this poster featuring Christina Aguilera attempting to flog Sketchers products to no doubt impressionable youth-type people. My first reaction was to think that the pose looked really familiar and after a fair amount of brain-searching, I'm thinking maybe it's been ripped off from a piece by Tom of Finland. Now I'm really interested in finding the piece that inspired this advert - particularly because if it is Tom of Finland then there's probably someone out there who should be writing a book on the way his bizarre sexualised gay imagery is being repurposed to sell shoes to a teen audience.
If anyone knows of the advert's influences then please leave a comment below - and if you happen to have a URL for an 'original' somewhere on the web, that would be bloody awesome too.
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The girl on the left reminds me of the Lou Reed image:
http://www.osnabrueck-net.de/splitscreen/Bilder/lou_reed1.jpg
→ Posted by: Caroline at November 7, 2004 8:06 PM
It is probably not referential, but rather is simply that the HOT men of Tom of Finland are part of the zeitgeist, and you see all things in their image.
→ Posted by: PaganGod at June 28, 2006 9:25 PM
more people should use tom of finland for inspiration...what a fantastic illustrator and well before his time...yes that pose looks very familular.....
→ Posted by: fongy at October 9, 2006 12:33 AM
I know this was a long time ago, but please check out the "Americas Next Top Model" season 3 where they did a "double" photo shoot. Among others was a session where they have the exact same scene as in the Aguilera ad.
→ Posted by: Caroline /Sweden at February 4, 2007 2:51 PM