BigShinyThing » perfume http://www.bigshinything.com Emergent Culture Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:53:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 David Beckham looks Fierce http://www.bigshinything.com/david-beckham-looks-fierce http://www.bigshinything.com/david-beckham-looks-fierce#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:07:37 +0000 Anne-Fay beckham.jpgOl’ Golden Balls is currently hawking ‘Instinct’, his men’s fragrance, in the UK glossies (well, ES Magazine). It looks like he’s borrowed both his wife’s plastic surgeon and her air-brusher. And that is so a girl’s jacket. Is this how his marketing people aim to capture his ambisexuality? Eeuw.

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It’s either the most audacious/downright silly celebrity perfume launch ever or a brazen postmodern deconstruction of the fragrance industry. An anti-perfume, if you like. If it’s the latter then Comme des Garcons got there first but full marks for trying. Check it out for yourself on the ‘Cumming the Fragrance’ site.

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