Yesterday we at the eCool Compound were delighted to receive an email from a faithful reader, Jennifer, who alerted us to an Armani ad published this summer. In the ad, soccer star David Beckham sports a pair of stylish black Armani briefs while assuming a position strikingly similar to that of the Torso Belvedere.
Did Armani mean to draw this parallel? We’d bet the little money we have left that he did. Note that Beckham’s arms appear to be truncated by the drape of his robe. Note also that his torso is curved forward in that “I’m at rest but you can still see my every muscle rippling under my skin” position for which the ancient sculpture is so famous.
Wanna see the real thing? — The torso, we mean, not the football star! You’ll have to head off to the Vatican Museums as the torso plays calcio for the clerical team.
