• By Hamilton Nolan
    Dec 4, 2008 2:14 PM 18,074
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    American Apparel Successfully Swallows Its Ad Spoofer

    All subversive things in our culture must eventually be co-opted by the very things that they subvert. It's the American way. The American Apparel ad spoofer—who had a months-long run of fame for creating super-porny ripoffs of AA ad posters (which eventually turned out to be Photoshop fakes by the people at Stereohell)—has now become the subject of an actual American Apparel ad. In Vice magazine, naturally! Click through for photos of Dov Charney's victory over artistic mockery:


    [Stereohell via Copyranter at Animal]


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