Ads I love

Um, Banana Republic, I am smitten with you this spring. Your ads are yummy...romantic and bright and fresh and sweet.

Case in point...

Her eyes. They just draw you in. I am obsessed.

The rest of the ad campaign is good too. I think I could definitely borrow some of these poses and the vibe that it gives off. All of the photos look totally relaxed and natural, but the poses use great posed body lines. And the guy and girl have really good chemistry too, without being all over each other. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the subtlety here totally works for the audience they're presenting to. It's a fun, casual love/travel story that I'm living vicariously through.

I swear my obsession has nothing to do with the fact that I have always been Anna Banana and they are Banana Republic. Or the fact that they use an elephant as their unofficial logo. Or maybe it has everything to do with those two things. And their ridiculously dreamy ads.


Photos are from Banana Republic (in case you couldn't tell).

Inspiration: Isaac Mizrahi

Here's a little inspiration from the ever-fabulous Isaac Mizrahi.  I stumbled upon his video blog thanks to Sam at Style/Swoon, and found it so wonderful that it needed to be shared here. The episodes "Making the effort" and "Crossroads" were very authentic, and I love that even an amazingly famous and fabulous designer is humble enough to be unique and real and essentially human. Maybe I'm strange, but it makes me feel connected to him, like we could be friends because we have things in common. Like not wanting to make the effort and then realizing that the effort was the hardest part. And loving theater. And giving ourselves credit for doing something for five whole days. I mean, we're almost the same person, right?

Isaac, please be my friend, and introduce me to Tim Gunn because I think we could be besties too.