Marc Jacobs Fashion

Marc Jacobs, what were you thinking? This advertisement is scanned out of my daughter’s copy of Teen Vogue. May I emphasize “Teen”. How does using a cross dressing man as a model sell clothes? Frankly, I have seen cross dressers that wear clothes better than I do, but this is NOT one of them. Does his advertising team think that this advertisement is attractive? Does he really think this model does his fashions justice? Does he think our daughters will want to run out and buy his clothes? Or is he hoping for our sons? If there is any beauty in these dresses, it is lost on the model.

Of course the other side of this question is why does Teen Vogue accept advertising like this? Doesn’t an advertisement like this annoy more readers than attract. I’m all for cutting edge fashion, but isn’t there some moral obligation about what you show when you are marketing to such an impressionable age?