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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 19, 2006 16:04:51 GMT
The new one, with the four model types (including Twiggy) frolicking around London in a range of clothes that probably won't suit the dowdy housewives that mainly shop in Marks. I don't think I've ever seen so much of one advert. In fact I don't remember seeing another advert in the past month. It seems to be stalking me. One version of it seems to go on for about 10 minutes too. PURE. HELL. They're all annoying, smug witches, but this women (Erin something or other) makes me want to scream: It's her little turns towards the camera with a knowing "I'm so marvelous look" that I find so pissy. You have no right to be so smug, love - you look like a giraffe in a tranny costume. And I can't work out whether the song is brilliant or annoying. It's probably the latter by association.
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Post by Cherubic on Sept 19, 2006 18:40:57 GMT
Really you'll whinge about anything you lot., there is nothing wrong with this advert. It shows women of varying ages having fun and looking nice, all wrapped up in a subtle swinging London package that draws the woman who was young at the time into a friendly relationship with M&S and means she'll go and spend money there.
And that pose at the end is just priceless.
Now 'Florence and Fred' is all I've seen this past month and I hate it. 5,500 Pence. Oh fuck off.
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Post by Elly on Sept 19, 2006 18:50:00 GMT
There's a new one? Good. That means there's less chance of Come Up And See Me returning to haunt us.
I agree that Erin is annoying beyond belief, but I have a huge crush on whoever is modelling the underwear. Apart from in the recent magazine photoshoots, where she looks proper rough. In the TV advert she is just beautiful.
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Post by SweatShop on Sept 19, 2006 19:21:12 GMT
Ooh, the M&S Christmas ad will be on in a couple of months...
(ok, who keeps smiting me? I haven't even been posting that much!)
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Post by jetsetwilly on Sept 19, 2006 20:42:54 GMT
Why do they make the lovely Twiggy look like a skank in this? She's wearing some bloody awful clothes. Did the other models get jealous of her attention after the last one and swap her wardrobe around to make her look arse?
I will forgive M & S more or less any dreadful advert so long as their food remains astonishingly lovely.
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Post by LoveMusic on Sept 19, 2006 21:57:45 GMT
Lizzie Jagger looks amazing, i love all her outfits I really do like all the M&S adverts, especially at christmas.
Erin is quite smug though
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 20, 2006 7:14:30 GMT
I agree that Erin is annoying beyond belief, but I have a huge crush on whoever is modelling the underwear. Apart from in the recent magazine photoshoots, where she looks proper rough. In the TV advert she is just beautiful. I was all confused here for a moment, before being shocked and angered at such lesbianism. I therefore apologise for my mind's homophobia. The M&S Christmas ads are brill, but last year's was a bit disappointing because it just featured this coven of four, if I remember correctly. The previous 2 years' were amazing though, being full of celebrities like Will Young, Emma Bunton, and Alice from The Vicar Of Dibley. I stand by my thoughts on this ad. Anyone who shows anything other than hate for it is a fool. A fool I tell you.
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Post by Cherubic on Sept 20, 2006 9:37:50 GMT
Call me a fool again and I'll cut you open and drop you off Hammersmith Bridge in a skimpy silky underwear set, a reasonably priced yet vast translucent blouse and a stupid fucking hat.
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Post by klee on Sept 20, 2006 9:42:32 GMT
I'm with Che on this one. These adverts make women think M&S clothes look attractive and desirable because attractive, desirable women (of different types: the older woman, the tall skinny one, the black one, the blonde one) are seen having fun in them.
For years M&S wasted millions trying to persuade shoppers (women mostly) that shopping there didn't make them a frump, it made them normal - which is laudable but stupid. People, women especially, don't buy things because they represent who they are, they buy them because they represent the person they want to be.
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Post by Adrian on Sept 20, 2006 9:49:53 GMT
The depth of coverage of the ads is quite astounding. You can't escape them, it's a very strong saturation message.
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Post by [james] on Sept 20, 2006 14:05:29 GMT
My Dad was edited out of last year's M&S advert. True fact.
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Post by elmsyrup on Sept 20, 2006 16:11:12 GMT
Twiggy's foul though. She makes me ill. Her and Lulu.
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Post by Rabbit on Sept 20, 2006 17:46:30 GMT
I bought a lovely black mac from Marks last month only for that advert to come out and twiggy look like a big frump in it! Cow!
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Post by thelovelykate on Sept 21, 2006 13:44:40 GMT
I was in M and S the other day and noticed that ageing sexpot Bryan Ferry is the new male poster boy for M and S. Surely it is time for a new advert (with 'Virginia Plain' in the background) with him slinking about looking hot and smug?
P.S. I quite love Erin. She is amazingly smug but I had the misfortune to be a flatchested teenage during the era of Wonderbras and Pamela Anderson. Seeing birds like her who are smug and flatchested makes me happy!
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 21, 2006 21:25:39 GMT
Annoying as the M&S ads are (although they are responsible for the turnaround in M&S's fortunes), what's even more annoying are the obvious copies. Matalan with Melanine Sykes is the worst offender. And although she's by herself, not with a team of models, Jaime Murray* off 'Hustle' is doing something similar with Debenhams. *(I do thinks she's very beautiful).
Incidentally, I'll take Twiggy and the bunch of harpies anyday over the M&S food ads.
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Post by Adrian on Sept 22, 2006 9:23:55 GMT
Melanie Sykes does have a team of models. She's prancing around with them, in the ads.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 22, 2006 9:40:39 GMT
And although she's by herself, not with a team of models, Jaime Murray* off 'Hustle' is doing something similar with Debenhams. *(I do thinks she's very beautiful). Isn't her man friend in that ad, none other than Danny Moon? I quite like it. I hope there's a follow up where he's found the designers for her (though she's still only wearing a nice bra), and she sends him on a mission to kill the M&S harpies.
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Post by LoveMusic on Sept 22, 2006 10:22:33 GMT
Matalan's advert is such a cheapened version.
I feel Mel Sykes has a really unattractive face - and personality -
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Post by Rad on Sept 27, 2006 22:26:41 GMT
has anyone seen the M & S kids' version? Soooo cute
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Post by LoveMusic on Sept 28, 2006 13:06:13 GMT
I love them!
Both of them are great.
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Post by raspberry on Sept 28, 2006 16:06:07 GMT
Annoying as the M&S ads are (although they are responsible for the turnaround in M&S's fortunes), what's even more annoying are the obvious copies. Matalan with Melanine Sykes is the worst offender. And although she's by herself, not with a team of models, Jaime Murray* off 'Hustle' is doing something similar with Debenhams. *(I do thinks she's very beautiful). Incidentally, I'll take Twiggy and the bunch of harpies anyday over the M&S food ads. I clicked on to this thread to make exactly the same points. I feel redundent now.
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Post by jem on Sept 29, 2006 13:15:34 GMT
Incidentally, I'll take Twiggy and the bunch of harpies anyday over the M&S food ads. Fully agree although I hate any advert that uses whispering voices- there's really no need for it.
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Post by LoveMusic on Sept 30, 2006 12:05:07 GMT
I hate whispering, it makes me cringe.
I do quite like the Jaime Debenhams one, its much better made than Matalan for a start and she does look beautiful
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Post by raspberry on Oct 4, 2006 14:10:11 GMT
The Matalan advert contains some horrible clothes. I can tell that they're flogging cheaply made jackets regardless of how soft the camera's focus is.
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Post by Rad on Oct 4, 2006 20:03:17 GMT
Even Evans have now got in on the act.
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