Advertising Is Good For You

Ad for clothing retailer French Connection

Created by Fallon UK.

Via Iain Claridge

A big, wet, sloppy kiss to JCPenney

There's lots to love about the new JCPenney.

First, the store hired the lovable Ellen DeGeneres as spokesperson.

Second, JCPenney ignored a boycott attempt by an anti-gay group.

Third, for Father's Day, JCPenney created an ad that celebrates straight and gay dads.

The copy reads:

First Pals: What makes Dad so cool? He's the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver - all rolled into one. Or two.

Beautiful in every way.

Via Gawker

Mandles* from Yankee Candle

Yankee Candle is introducing new candle fragrances just for men.

No, they're not really called Mandles (but they should be).

And, yes, they are real. 

Click here to visit the Man Candle section of Yankee Candle's website.

ADDENDUM

* Turns out "Mandles" already exist — but not from Yankee Candle. 

The Mandle Company offers  about two dozen different manly fragrances. From Gunpowder to Meat & Potatoes and everything in between. 

Click here to visit Mandle Company's website.

Year in, year out, the most popular women's fragrance bought by men at holiday time is...

Chanel No. 5 ad featuring actress Audrey Tautou.

Via Daily Mail

Kaboom!

Love this site from Old Spice.

Every time you click the button, something explodes.

Click here to start blowing things up.

Celebrity Saturday: Sylvester Stallone's $4,000 fountain pen

Sylvester Stallone has "designed" a fountain pen for Montegrappa called Chaos. The pen is covered with skulls, a snake and a sword. And it sells for $4,000 - $5,000.

Please, turn on your audio and visit the Montegrappa website. So bad it's good.

Love this image of him awkwardly holding the pen. It's as though he's never used one before.

Click here to see — I kid you not — Sylvester Stallone's pudding brand.

Via Film Drunk

Celebrity Saturday: Iggy Pop for Paco Rabanne

Iggy Pop, whom Gawker calls an extinction-thwarting punkosaurus, is the new face of Paco Rabanne's new line of men's fragrances called Black XS L'Exces.

Click here to see a TV commercial for Country Life butter starring former Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten.

This is how to tell a guy his nose hair needs a trim

Click image to enlarge.

The Grooming Lounge, an upscale barber shop, has released an interesting iPhone app.

According to Cool Hunting:

(The iPhone app) sends an anonymous tip to an unsuspecting gentlemen alerting them of their grooming faux pas. If someone you know has excess nose hair, wears too much cologne or has a beard on the back of their neck, the app will clue him in.

Click here to read more at Cool Hunting.

Is that a banana or do you need photoshopping?

We know women get photoshopped. Sometimes, men get photoshopped, too.

This was the original screen on the Banana Republic website:

In answer to your question, your guess is as good as mine.

Banana Republic decided the bulge had to go. This is what the product shot looks like now:

Read more about it at Jezebel.

Celebrity Saturday: Derek Jeeter for Fusion

See more at the Gillette Fusion website.

Source: Notcot

Antichi Telai men's fashion advertising

Advertising Agency: AUGE, Milan

Source: Ads of the World

Celebrity Saturday: Marcus Schenkenberg debuts a line of pearl jewelry for men

Model and reality star Marcus Schenkenberg partnered with Gellner to introduce YOU ROCK by Marcus Schenkenberg, a line of pearl jewelry for men designed by Mayk Hollander.

 

Mean-spirited billboard

The "gender testing" line is an obvious swipe at Caster Semenya, the South African runner who was pressured into taking a gender test to prove she was female.

Surely the Teazers people could have found a way to promote their club without being assholes.