The new Target commercial irritates the crap out of me!

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Milla Jovovich and some other chick, rambling about their new spring collection at Target...how they were inspired by "these 1930s art deco flowers."

Then they talk about "art nouveau flowers, how they were used in the 70s," and call their stupid clothes "ironic." :wtf:

What the hell are these bimbos smoking? They know nothing about any of the aforementioned periods of art or design. The flowers they show resemble none of the above. Art Nouveau was hip in the 1890s and years leading up to WWI, and was characterized by flowers and patterns, but not what they're showing. Art Deco was big in the 1920s and 1930s, and was much simpler and more elegant. Neither had anything to do with the 70s (which had quite a bit of throwback to the 40s, if anything).

And what the FUCK is IRONIC, pertaining to clothes? They need to call up Alanis, because none of them know anything about irony.

/rant

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I caught that too. I'm like, ok I see the 70s thing but where's all the rest??

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5. Good. It's not just me.

As an art history major, people who babble about art and know nothing about it irritate me to no end. So I usually make it my mission to make them look stupid when I begin discussing REAL art history. :D

[flvegan]

2. 2 words: Old Navy.

Their new commercials are just...agh.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Hmmmm...

Haven't been paying enough attention, I guess. I tend to keep the channel on Law and Order reruns on USA most of the time while I'm writing.

Wassup with the Old Navy stuff?

[flvegan]

8. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-Old Navy guy

But the "white, white, white" ads are just awful.

Forgive me...I watched a couple hours of MTV Cribs this weekend. It was like an Old Navy invasion.

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. I hate Old Navy.

Too young for me, and all the clothes are at least 3 sizes too small-- even if they say they're my size.

I'll keep an eye out.

[Roon]

4. Do you know what's gross?

The pepto commercials. DIARRHEA! (rubbing butt)

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6. But what about the funny little guy with the foreign accent?

He makes it not quite so bad.

The others just look like they missed the auditions for REM's video for "Stand." :D

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. i was just telling lisa this: WTF is ironic clothing. i mean besides a transparent burkha?

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10. .

:rofl:

Great minds think alike, girl genius!

:D

[WCGreen]

12. THAT would be ironical, doncha think...

[WCGreen]

11. Tossing around shit so people will think they are sooo way cool...

Did you notice the little lift at the end of everything they said...

All that was missing was the OMG's, the ubiquitous "like" and playing with their hair to complete the valley motif...

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. Yup.

I believe the period is called "post-Val" chic. :eyes:

[WCGreen]

14. Now that's....

Very funny...

[Skittles]

15. the fashions they show are ugly n/t

[Kutjara]

16. There was a bit of an Art Nouveau revival fad in the late 70s, but it...

...was more about interior design than clothes. I remember wandering around malls, seeing all these knockoff "Monet" print fabrics on sofas and pastel wall-hangings. Deco had a bit of a vogue, too, with badly made Tiffany lamp repros and suchlike. Even Japonisme got the microwave treatment, with "silk" folding screens and lots of peacock-themed shit. It was all terribly kitsch, though, so if Target is trying to revive the revival of Deco or Nouveau, they're reheating it one time too many.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. I guess I was too young...

those fashions weren't being used in stuff for younger kids like me. We just had bright polyester with really big lapels.

:D

[Frank Cannon]

20. You are right. There was an art nouveau revival in the 70s.

My mom was big into it, and we had a house full of Tiffany-inspired stained glass and Mucha and Beardsley prints.

I don't know if it was a big craze, but it was there.

[China_cat]

17. Oohhh! Somebody better tell the closed captioning people

that they're saying 'ironic'. It came across my screen as 'iconic'. (Which would make sense if they had half an idea of what they were talking about)

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19. That's what it sounds like to me.

Anybody else hear "iconic" instead? :shrug: