Toyota’s gender-bending win

Mary Elizabeth Williams @ Salon - It’s not the first time a beautiful, bikini-clad model has been used to sell a car. But this one’s a little different.

In a new Japanese Toyota ad, the long-haired 19-year-old Ukrainian Stav Strashko struts toward a car as the camera lovingly follows the model’s perfect, red bikini-bottomed butt. A jacket is seductively shed. And then Strashko turns around to reveal – she’s a man, baby! Yup, that bare chest is flat, but the bulge in the bikini bottom is not.  Read more.

Comments