It may be a bit of cultural flotsam but it’s not a small thing that shoemaker Stuart Weitzman’s fall 2024 ad campaign celebrates women.
I was poised over the play arrow on the video link in the email announcing shoemaker Stuart Weitzman’s fall 2024 ad campaign and hesitated, bracing myself for the familiar feeling of letdown, of the stab in the back, of Et tu, Stuart?
The title of the short film anchoring Weitzman’s ad campaign is “How Lovely to be a Woman,” and these days anything mentioning “woman” could spell trouble and heartbreak ahead. So many of our favorite brands have betrayed us in recent years, turned into Pod People overnight, become victims of the woke mind virus — especially in the sheep-like fashion industry.
Vogue magazine, to which I subscribed since I was a little kid, became The Nation with glossier photos and haranguing articles about the brutal occupation of the West Bank. Teen Vogue became a nightmare, with how-to guides for anal sex and glowing coverage of Columbia University’s pro-Hamas tent city. To avoid offense in its “Snow White” remake, Disney cast a Hispanic as “Snow White” and brought in seven normal-sized people to play the dwarves. […]
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