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One of Alexander McQueen's first ad campaigns was shot by superstar fashion photographer, Steven Klein, and starred Russian model, Tatiana Urina. Dark and mysterious, the fall 2002 ads were a perfect representation of the young label.
The picture denotes a red-haired woman in the foreground, sitting on the small sofa. The woman is wearing black clothes and sitting in a free and a little bit male-like pose. She is looking at the viewer. There is also a big aquarium in the middle ground with the corpse of a man in the water. The man is bald and naked, his face is looking down. The man is really pale, it looks like he lost all his blood or the blood is not moving in his veins. The man is definitely dead because he is not moving at all. Near the aquarium there is a small brown deer with white belly, which is looking on the figure in the water. On the background we can see a head of a woman. It seems to be a reflection of the woman on the foreground but there is no mirror in the picture. The second woman is looking at the wall in front of her, we can only see the back of her head and her bright red hair. All her body is covered with a big black spherical thing. The walls and the ground are dark and grey, they look old, scary and wet, there are a lot of crackles.

There are a lot of different symbols in this picture that can be interpreted in different ways, according to viewer's cultural capital. First of all, the woman in the fore ground and her bright hair. Historically there are a lot of different myths and stereotypes about red hair and red-haired women. For example, in the Middle Ages it was believed that red-haired women are witches. “Also in some countries there was a strange stereotype that red-haired have no soul” (Mari,2009)...

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... serious, or they may think of themselves as being sophisticated or very dignified. (Scott-Kemmis, 2013: p.9 ). The key idea is that women are enigmatic, they keep their secrets and it is not that easy to unravel their mystery, because their inner world is complicated and complex.

Finally, we can see a lot of unexpected items in this photograph, such as a deer, woman in the spherical clothes in the background, moss in an urban environment of the room, etc. This represents the uniqueness of the brand and the clothes it produces. It is obvious that McQueen's clothes are extremely expensive and only a small number of people can afford themselves to buy them. Through this campaign the brand want to say that their clothes are special and not for everybody, but those, who will wear them, will be different from the others and have it's own unique personal identity.

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