For some reason today, I remembered an ad I fell in love with in 2008 when I was working on my collage with my friends. I posted a picture of
that collage back a while ago. I included a picture of painted elephants from a Hermes ad. Honestly, I didn't even know what Hermes sold (fashion accessories, btw) until I looked it up. I Googled "Elephant ad pink and orange" and finally found the ad campaign. (I don't know what I would do without Google!)
When I finally found the images, I found that some folks don't care for them due to the colonialist type imagery (which I would never have thought about until they said it...) and others didn't like them because of the animal rights issues involved. I feel like I should be outraged or something, but I'm not...I just thought the photos were beautiful. Luckily, I found an article in
Nirali magazine and they loved the images and the use of the Indian model, Lakshmi Menon (gorgeous). I was glad there were some positives about the campaign because it is gorgeous.
These are just two of several that I found on the Nirali magazine site.
On a completely different note, I peeked in on the People's Choice awards while I was looking for those photos above - the official charity for the show was the
Children's Safe Drinking Water Project. I'm not familiar with this particular program, but I have been interested in a couple of different clean water projects...the numbers are staggering - 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. It is unfathomable to me. I take water for granted and most of the people I know do, too. So take a moment to check out the website, do what you can. Or find another site that helps dig wells, or provides purifiers or whatever. Just think about it - people die from not having access to clean water. I have it in my house. Every day. I'm incredibly lucky.
