Oh, hell. More of this... If you enjoyed all the exotic human props in the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, here's some more of that in the same spirit, this time from a luxury retailer: Vietnam And Its 'Exotic People' Are The New Black, According To Absurd Luxury Retailer Campaign.
A new campaign by Americana Manhasset, a Long Island luxury shopping outlet, features pretty, well-groomed white ladies photographed in front of the "exotic" locales of Vietnam, including lots of laboring Asian people wearing their requisite pointy hats. From the Spring 2013 Lookbook:
To be fair, not all the photos include an old-ass Asian grandma. Some of them feature this fashionable gal in front of a temple or something. And a few even include a handsome Asian dude. (Whaaaat!?) But you get the idea -- most of it is played up for its Far East Flava. So is the idea that this whole western-girl-goes-east thing will motivate shoppers to plunk down some more cash on luxury brands?