Advertising Analysis

Advertisements often find ways to sell their products by psychologically manipulating people. The advertising indus distort makes us envious of others and convinces us to be in a bad way(p) with what we harbor (Valko). Steve craze ads usually feature women with absurdly large heads and hourglass bodies which try to force the earshot to wonder what the ad is about. One of these odd ads appears in the March/April 2001 issue of Twist Magazine.It features a young woman with a adult head patronlessly running, as an airplane zooms over her at an abandoned drome. There argon three characteristics inside the ad that generate the whole idea that Steve Madden shoes, clothes and accessories will improve your self image. The main purpose of Steve Madden ads is to suggest to its viewers that they will sense good about themselves by wearing his products. The models big head conveys self-esteem and self-pride and she challenges the consumer to look as good as she does.The young woman wear s a face of apprehension and is running past from her old self to start her new confident life with Steve Madden products. The sleek black leather jacket on top of a sexy white shirt, short enough to reveal her stomach and sybaritic hips together with her tight low rider blue jeans, black pointy utmost boots, and trendy black bag complete her fashionable outfit. The embellished womans physique is aimed to appeal to women and girls between the ages of 16 through 25 in search of funky, hip, sexy clothes.Steve Madden likes to think of his clothes of as being distinctive and he illustrates his idea by setting an abandoned airport as the background for the ad. There is not a body in sight as the model runs across the old gum stained pavement. This calls attention to the idea that by wearing Steve Madden buyers isolate themselves from everyone else. She is in like manner proud and conceited and cannot imagine being compared to anyone else.The Steve Madden logo in the ad also contrib utes to the main idea of the ad. It could have been anywhere on the page, why the cast out. Steve Madden ads always have their logos imprinted on the sky to imply that the sky is the limit with Steve madden products (Liza). Steve Maddens practice session of the airplane flying across the models head are to let his consumers know that the only thing to stop them from accomplishing the look they have in mind is the limit the set upon themselves.Steve Madden will help its buyers attain the appearance they have always envisioned. Furthermore, it can be said, in Bertrand Russells words that Good advertisements will either make the audience envious of the lifestyle being advertised, or will generate within the audience the desire to be envied by others (Harris). Many advertisers arent as successful but Steve Madden manages to persuade his buyers to buy his products through his curious ads.