Reply #3 - September 13, 2007, 03:47:06 PM
I haven't seen the Abercrombie catalogs, just the posters inside the store and around the malls. They are usually of topless guys being shot from the waist up and girls in bikinis... etc. They are suggestive and the ages of the models are probably pretty young. That sort of stuff doesn't phase me... I buy my three year old daughter's clothes at Hot Topic (awww, have you seen the playboy bunny onesies for babies? so cute), but I can see how they are offensive to other people.
It's all just branding though, I mean, it works. I can look at an Abercrombie ad and know it's theirs. They are usually black and white too. My sister is a fashion design student and I like helping her with her projects so I notice stuff like this a lot.
Anyway, in that respect your shots don't really look like their ads, I was just commenting on the words across his shirts, which I am sure you didn't pick out. And the words are fine in Senior portraits (I think), those are cool (in an edgy preppy sorta way) brands and he is showing his style.
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