Gucci vs. Usher

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Gucci vs. Usher I picked out the October, 2009 issue of GQ magazine, not only for its plentiful bounty of ads, but for the hot and sexy Olivia Wilde on the cover. While looking through GQ I came across two ads, both for cologne. The first one ad is advertising cologne by Gucci, and the other is an ad for Usher VIP. Even though the ads are both for cologne, they incorporate similar and different elements to sell their product. The Gucci ad is a full page consisting of a close up head-shot of actor James Franco in black and white on the left, and a side profile shot with him facing the reader; connecting the two shots is an off-center picture of the cologne bottle at the bottom toward the right of the page. Both shots of James Franco have him wearing the same suit, a solid black jacket, shirt, and tie. In the head-shot, James’s eyes are looking toward the right of the page off in space; like he is deep in thought. The side profile picture has him looking directly at the reader making eye contact. James is looking very calm, collected, smooth, confident and classy in both pictures. Gucci is saying, “Buy our product and you can be more like James Franco or other celebrities.” In comparison to the Gucci ad, the Usher VIP ad is also a full page, but it is not completely in black and white. The ad consists of a photo of the musician Usher, with his arm around a beautiful woman inside an elevator. There is a very transparent golden V laid over top of the photo, and there is a gold-colored bottle of cologne in the bottom left corner. The woman is standing to the side her body facing Usher, and she is looking back toward the left smiling. She is wearing a simple white dress, a necklace, and a bracelet. Usher is wearing black dress pants with a white long sleeve dress shirt, and he has a black untied bow tie hanging around is neck. He is facing the reader
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