Advert for Mustang jeans in Bravo of 24 February 1977.
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Reinhold Messner 1979
Legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner in an ad for Mustang jeans in Bravo of 18 October 1979.
Mustang jeans ad 1976
Mustang jeans, “The Skintight Ones”, in an adverrt in Bravo of 8 September 1976.
Mustang Jeans/Zeltinger 1981
Singer Jürgen Zeltinger features in an ad for Mustang jeans in Bravo of 8 October 1981.That series of ads are self-shot photos. Zeltinger fronted a punk group bearing his name whose lyrics were sung in the dialect of Cologne, Kölsch (in which he is quoted in the ad, from the song “Asi mit Niwoh”). He was openly gay, at a time when no singer was openly gay.
Here’s Zeltinger’s cover of the Ramones’ “Rockaway Beach”.
Mustang jeans ad 1975
An ad for Mustang jeans denim suits in white in Bravo of 17 April 1975.
Mustang jeans ad 1982
In 1982 Mustang jeans ads were still going for the “People of Today” proto-selfie option, with animal carer Jutta Seidel, 21, from Stuttgart does here with monkeys she cares for. This ad is from Bravo of 30 September 1982.
Mustang Jeans ad 1981
Advert for Mustang jeans in Bravo of 27 August 1981. It’s the ’80s, man, and 20-year-old Rainer Grupe took this proto-selfie because, apparently, he does what he wants.
Mustang jeans ad/David Dundas 1977
Singer David Dundas features on an ad for Mustang jeans in Bravo of 17 March 1977. The ad announces a competition: Write funny German lyrics to Dundas’ big hit “Jeans On”. The winner gets a golden record. Ten runners-up get a weekend in London.
Mustang jeans ad 1982
A few weeks ago we had a family dressed in Mustang denim in 1976. Here are their descendants in Bravo of 15 April 1982 — twins Oliver and Richard Mertz, 22, who knitted the fetching jerseys and legwarmers themselves. They didn’t knit the Mustang jeans though.
Mustang Jeans ad 1976
Denim everywhere. An ad for Mustang jeans in Bravo of 25 March 1976