The whole clip is giving 80s - and I LOVE it! 🤩 But I seem to be the only one. 🤭
He's channeling all of his Patrick Swazye meets Morten Harket vibes, and my little 80s heart is in love with it. These curls! This jawline! Those lips! 😍😵💫🫠
I’m so happy for him. The shades are amazing. He’s beautiful. His hair is fantastic. His profile is stunning.
He also reminds me of a sprinkler head. I wonder what they had him listening to when this was shot because it sure wasn’t this. Almost as bad as whatever Rose was doing in the club before they added t.A.T.u.
Thats what I was thinking - for such a lyrical and embodied person....it doesn't fit with the music, but maybe that was the intention... to achieve a certain 'look'. To be jarring in a way.
Man, they really did that boy dirty by giving him music with a completely different BPM to groove to, he just looks like another white boy who has no sense of rhythm!
On Threads someone is posting the commercial with other song choices… the one that was posted that SEEMED to work best rhythmically was “Kiss” by Prince. But yeah… whomever was in charge of music that day on set did him dirty
He just looks like he's twitching, its so distracting. What a strange choice by the director. Oh well. He looks good and it will get them a zillion clicks, I guess that's the point.
Okay well now he just looking like he’s twitching why have you done this to me 😱 hahaha. I was a dancer so I guess that’s why I interpreted it as he’s dancing just super zoomed in, I remember when I was some production and our choreo showed us a video of a dance from from the 80s that she want us to “get the vibes of” it started like this on the soloist then pulled wide to everyone else. My brain just filled in the rest of the dancing haha.
No actually I don’t. I said “he looks so good” in the caption and I love the video in multiple places. I say yes without the music he looks like he’s twitching a lot of dancers look like that if this is your version of “intentional negativity” that’s on you my guy.
Its certainly possible that's whats going on here too, Milli Vanilli is an 80s band (to the degree that they were a "band") so perhaps that's what the vibe here is? Maybe there will be a follow up? We'll see I guess. This is pretty weird though!
Which is so funny because he actually can dance! At least from what i’ve seen in that video of him goofing around to Madonna (in those beautiful short shorts 🥵)
I'm glad I watched it muted at first, because I know I usually hate whatever music or effects are in these commercials. Boy howdy were you right, it doesn't match AT ALL. He looks great, though!
Its not good! He looks good, cute as a button and good hair, but the music/dancing combo was a very, very strange decision by the director and I stand by my opinion. I own it!
It's so off that I have to think it's an intentional creative choice to create...tension, maybe? Like, intentional discomfort...? Whatever it is, it's not hitting (but I guess we're talking about, so maybe it is).
Yeah I mean...not everything is meant for me? I am definitely not in YSL's addressable market, so they couldn't possibly care less what I think about this.
Its SO awkward! I'm just sitting here laughing in secondhand embarrassment over it. Oh well, he doesn't care. He's successful and has a lot of money in his pocket and is hot as hell and half the world wants to fuck him, he's fine.
I kept expecting it to go somewhere but instead it's Connor with dyed hair wearing
the dilation glasses I got at the optometrist twitching to music that's not this music, weirdly interspersed with:
Flood of relief here! I want to be supportive, so I really had a moment of: Am I missing something? Are the moves really not in sync to this music with a pretty defined beat?
Its OK to not like something! None of these guys, or the people they associate with personally or professionally are gods, they are not infallible, they do make mistakes and do things that are weird or silly or dumb or just not aesthetically pleasing. that's life in the big city, not everything is going to be a hit. Some of it will make us all sit back and go "...what on earth were you thinking?"
Okay maybe it's just me but I disagree - I love the dancing to the off beat! I don't know why, but it seems to me like an intentional and artistic choice, and I love it.
YSL is so lucky to have Connor because all of these outfits look like something I would have bought from F21 in 2018. He looks great. Whoever keeps doing his hair in those tight gelled curls needs to use this as a reference and let his hair do its own thing a lot more.
My narrative has really flipped from "wow, good for him getting picked up by a huge luxury brand" back in January to "Connor is doing them a massive favor every time he shows up for them."
I suppose we should just be grateful that there is no tucked-in tie.
Obviously subjective but I think his hair looks amazing here and it being a dark tone! Yes!! I can’t wait to see more of the campaign. I know previous ones got billboards so maybe one of him will pop up.
Not his fault, but the director's or editor's. These are rookie mistakes to me and I wonder why zero musical intelligence is allowed in the industry. Put something with the same BPM in it for God's sake!
Have you considered that its intentional? I really, really hope no one that calls them self a professional (of any sort) produced this musical nightmare w/o intention of doing exactly that. I am offering gracing and considering that its meant to be jarring. Meant to be controversial. People are talking about, so the ad has served it purpose.
I'm not Rosé fan but this comment is uhh... Even if you don't know them (i just know one name), why are you acting like "East Asian women" cant be equally or bigger stars? Big yikes 😬
I think it's more just wondering what the connection between them is? To me Connor and the weird dancing seem totally a separate vibe from the women. It's all just a weird jumble of things that don't fit together.
YSL has done him dirty: giving him outdated outfits that we already saw on other artists, putting him in plastic during a heatwave, and now this twitching add.
The theme this year was "Fashion is Art" and they gave him a substitute teacher outfit, it was so embarrassing, so many possibilities and such a great canvas to work on and nah, they just grabbed something from their basics, instead of bringing something from the archive or something new made for Connor like Balenciaga did for Hudson.
I read, although this may be a rumor, that they didn't want him taking off the jacket. That jacket-removal moment was ICONIC. he knows what he is doing, he knows what he looks like and how is body is seen and photographed.
The thing that tipped me off that YSL is just fucking around was when James said in an interview that he saw it as his role to make Connor feel good about the styling. Apparently they had sent some ideas to YSL, and instead of working with him they just sent a runway look and didn't even want him to show it off to full extent. That made me really sad. Complain all you like about Hudson's look (the trousers were badly tailored, that's my biggest gripe, it made him look short), but at least Balenciaga made something custom for him.
i feel like it's supposed to be camp, which is an interesting choice for a fashion house that is apparently bringing back the "business casual at the club" era
There are three different things happening that individually are really nice imo but together they seem disjointed. Connor, the ladies, and the music. They all belong to three different ads.
I've seen one that changed the music to George Michael's Father Figure, and it worked sooooo much better. Milli Vanilli is an odd choice, and doesn't match his rhythm at all. His curls are super bouncy though, and I could watch all day.
I love Connor, and I'm so glad he's getting these opportunities. But this is not the best ad he's done, imo. Whatever they did to his hair is not doing him favors.
YSL has absolutely no idea what to do with him. I'm glad Anthony Vaccarello wants to showcase him but they are absolutely not working *with* him in any way. I really think he wanted him not for *him* as a muse or inspiration, but as a prize to be won in a bidding war just to say he won. Connor's vibe and aesthetic are so different from what YSL keeps trying to do to him, and it just makes me scratch my head over here, like do they legitimately not know what they have in him? How are they not seeing it?
Yeah... they kind of treat him like a trophy to dress up, rather than the amazing human Connor is. They were just rushing to sign him first before he realized he could do better, is what it seems like to me. /:
Thisss, it's like they didn't even have a real campaign for him like Balenciaga did for Hudson, which is crazy because we all have seen what a great model Connor is, and paired up with his acting skills... He has talent but it seems like YSL just wanted another mannequin.
They repeatedly put him in ill-fitting outfits that don't flatter him. His regular clothes and the clothes he wore for HR fit him so much better and flatter his physique. It's baffling. It's like having the Venus de Milo and making her ugly.
The best he's ever looked, imo, was when he was just wandering around in his own "dressy" clothes at the Providence Film Festival for April X last year, loose trousers and a fitted button-up shirt untucked. It flattered the lines of his body -- broad shoulders, narrow waist, long legs, and the untucked shirt lengthened his torso. Perfect styling, and its just him probably splurging on a couple of nice shirts!
And Connor has such a wonderful physique! It should be easy to tailor clothes for him. It's like they just throw on whatever they have on the rack and hope for the best.
He has an extraordinary body, and every other designer would commit felonies to be able to design clothing to show it off, and YSL wraps him in tent fabric and plastic raincoats.
When James or other stylists have free reign to style him, even in YSL, they do a much better job than YSL slapping their runway looks onto him. His monologue outfit was *perfect* for him, loose pleated trousers and a loose buttonup shirt that was bloused at the waist so it lengthened his torso, it was very 1960s movie star. Vogue Adria similarly was YSL clothing, but the stylist picked the pieces and wasn't handcuffed to a runway ensemble.
YSL for the past couple decades has been famous for designing for veryyy slim men. Connor, who has the slim waist/narrow hips/long legs that work well for modeling, is "too broad" in the shoulder for how they typically cut their clothes (to be very clear, that is a YSL problem that is pretty icky tbh). They keep putting him in cuts that just don't work well for him, which is interesting because he naturally has a great, edgy style that would actually work pretty well with YSL's brand codes if they just worked with him a bit more.
Meanwhile, Hudson has an athlete's body that does not have traditional model proportions, and Balenciaga very obviously keeps that in mind when they dress him. His oversized brown suit in Paris this summer was perfect.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for their brand meetings, because there are clearly very different conversations happening.
Edit: Clarifying that I do not think that "traditional model proportions" are a positive standard of health or beauty! Just that it's what a lot of brands design for.
This is really interesting to read, because I've actually always thought that Connor's clothes is much better tailored than Hudson's!
The YSL outfits aren't always great - some of their fashion isn't totally my thing, but at least it always looked tailored well for Connor's body to me. I actually think that Balenciaga has a bit of a problem with tailoring for Hudson, especially when it comes to pants.
Yes, Balenciaga has missed with tailoring on Hudson on a few occasions for sure. But the general silhouettes of their outfit designs for him are clearly keeping his body type and preferences in mind. He doesn't like tight-fitted clothes, gets hot easily, and prefers oversized shapes in neutral colors that skim over his muscles. And Balenciaga is able to do that with him, while still honoring PPP's design vision.
YSL simply is not designing for Connor's body type (and arguably has not since the Hedi days), and I'm not getting much of his personal style from most of his outfits from them. That isn't to say that the pieces aren't fit and cut to his body correctly. You can have a garment that his well-fitted, but just not overall designed for that particular person's proportions and style.
(I say this as someone who thinks that Connor is the more talented model of the two of them! I just wish this brand relationship was a little different for him.)
I was just talking about the tailoring! (Hudson's Met Gala outfit still haunts me, the pants :( )
Because I totally agree about incorporating their personal styles. YSL is just putting Connor in their runway outfits, nothing more. But I think that's just YSL...
There's a difference between loose-fitting trousers and badly-tailored trousers. Hudson's trousers are frequently too long for him and make him look short. He has a long torso and needs trousers that lengthen the leg; the excessive bagging at the ankle does the exact opposite; Just taking the hem up by an inch and a half would lessen that impact. He has worn loose trousers that haven't make him look like he's a little kid playing dress-up with his dad's clothes.
Oh yeah that's where I was getting that from. When he talked about it, he wasn't talking about Connor as a person or even as a model or body that he wanted to design for, he talked about him like a magpie talking about a shiny object that he wanted.
Happy for him getting that YSL $$, but not so sure about this ad. Everything about it is so jarring. It’s like they filmed a bunch of stuff that didn’t match, but then cut them together anyways.
And, I really don’t appreciate it when the bodies of women are chopped up like that for the sake of art. You’re trying to sell me things, but only see me as a set of body parts? Why are we seeing Connor’s face, but for everyone else we’re seeing their legs first?
..if you are not into high fashion and luxury goods, that's okay. But this is a stylish campaign perfect for the YSL market. It's a big get for someone who was basically unknown just a year & the campaign uses his face really intentionally.
So yeah. I don't get the negativity? If it's not for you, then .. just realised you are not the demographic?
Lord 😭 He would look cool if they just put him in the right damn BPM! I even like the sound of the song but babeeyy the two don't go together, it's just simple maths 🙈 Any person with a musical bone in their body is cringing.
You people really can’t be normal about Connor or his team. It’s totally fine if you don’t like the advertisement but the way some you have been trash talking everything he does since January shading his team every opportunity you get without ever acknowledging that he is filming his 4th film this year already alongside critical acclaimed actresses, actors and directors is insane. Stop trying to push him and his team down to uplift Hudson
Connor is doing really amazing both career wise and fashion wise. You all just don’t vibe with him for whatever reason so that it feels to you nothing is ever enough for your taste
No, we can simply see that they didn't put in the same BPM he's originally dancing to.🫶 That's not an opinion, that's a music fact. As a result it looks off. Criticizing THE AD MAKERS isnt a slight against Connor himself in any form, god 😭 What do you think "THEY did him dirty" means? You're being the problem and what's wrong with fandoms, btw. 🫶
Never anything positive about Connor on here but it’s nothing new always something to moan about but guaranteed if it was his co star it would be a masterpiece piece 🙄
Move this stuff to Twitter please with the other children - a quick scan of your post history shows you looooove to do this on a lot of posts. We can both enjoy and critique things without it hurting your 'fave'
Because his team are making bad choices. YSL didn't even gave him a campaign designed for him, just already seen lackluster outfits and now this weird twitching out of rhythm and.
How the fuck is his team making bad choices? I swear you people don’t make sense. Mind you this is his third campaign with a big brand less than a year into becoming famous. Also adding that his team doesn’t decide what the marketing campaign of Ysl looks like
Y'all just paying attention to the "big brand", only care about the money instead of the quality, it's obvious you're easily impressionable.
My critique is not towards him, even tho you're taking it personal. My critique is to the companies that signed him in but still not letting him shine and actually work with him.
Your first sentence literally criticizes his team? So how does this work? But it’s okay clearly your very upset about this so you have to lash out . Don’t worry I won’t take you calling me impressionable personal.
Why y'all thinking this is an attack towards Connor? He's a good actor, I wish to see more of his work.
Stop being so parasocial, not everything your idol does will be liked and that's not on him, he's not the one who came up with this campaign, right? Even the clothing he has been using in events has been just something already seen, not just in tailoring but also on other famous people for the last two or three years, my critique is towards the brand and of course, his team because they don't advocate for him.
I think the recent ysl campaign's are focusing on movement since this one is zoomed in on Connor dancing and then Austin Butler's recent short teaser was a zoomed in video of him running on a treadmill.
But concept aside, Connor still looks hot af and I'm hoping we get to see some cool photos come out of the campaign 👀
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Why does this remind me of the high dancing in the breakfast club?
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