Zac Efron for John John Denim

Posted on Aug 8, 2012 in Fashion

Pampered pretty boy butches up for denim campaign. Details to follow.

Zac Efron, recently named the new face of John John Denim, was photographed by Jacques Dequeker and styled by Jenny Richter and Felipe Veloso for the brand’s latest ad campaign.

We’ll say this: he looks a lot more attractive to us since he aged up and filled out a little. He’s not for us, but we totally get the appeal he inspires in others. If he makes you moist as a snack cake, go with it, we say. We don’t quite think he fits the character type of “bad-ass hotrod jockey” but whatever. It’s an ad campaign, not a documentary. He’s far from the first milk-whiskered pretty boy to butch it up and he’s equally as far from the last.

[Photo Credit: Jacques Dequeker]

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sockandaphone

i have the worst crush on him, and these pictures are not making it better.
- RebeccaKW
  
  You may have seen it-there is a picture floating around somewhere, from some ad or editiorial. He’s wearing nothing but undies, and he’s in the act of taking them off. The reflection in the mirror shows the top portion of his fine ass, and the front…well. If you haven’t seen it, you should find it.
  - sockandaphone
    
    thank you fellow PUF, for pointing this out!
Judy_J

Everyone looks like they need a bath. Gritty, I understand. But dirty (as in unwashed)? No, not for this bitter kitten.
- joe_tey83
  
  I don’t mind giving Efron a bath. Preferably together.
http://twitter.com/MajorBedhead MajorBedhead

Someone else can have Zac. I’m lusting after the cars.

I do not get the jeans that look like they’ve been bleached with urine. I don’t know who thought that was a good look, but it’s not and it needs to stop.
- Thathoodwink
  
  What cars? What jeans?
altalinda

Butch? Hahahahahahahaha.
- http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd
  
  Right? Butch. Not. So. Much.
  - http://twitter.com/SparklyCasanova UglyCasanova
    
    I instead of U and we have a word more fitting.
    - http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd
      
      I think I love you.
      - LesYeuxHiboux
        
        So what’re you so afraid of?
      - http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd
        
        Not sure I understand you, here, in the context of this thread conversation.
      - RebeccaKW
        
        David Cassidy song lyrics?
      - http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd
        
        Thanks RebeccaKW. It took you to get me on board with this. With regard to Mr Efron, nothing of more substance than David Cassidy lyrics, come to mind.
- Celandine1
  
  These pictures had me bursting out Hahahahahahahahahaa, especially 2, 3, & 4! Cheeseball
- lovelyivy
  
  Aaaw, but he’s trying so desperately hard! I find it unconvincing at best, but golf claps for the attempt.
TonyGo

Joey to Joseph Lawrence Redux.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YAMNQMUGFM4NNSPAQLZRODSD5I Angela
  
  I take your point, but I was thinking more along the lines of a baby John Stamos…there’s a preponderance of hair product poofing that pompadour!
  - http://twitter.com/Alloyjane Alloy Jane
    
    I think they were going for the “Jordan Catalano” thing. Poor kid, way too soft around the edges for this. And the denim-wear here is not my bag.
http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd

For me, all I can see is yet another brand of ridiculously pricey jeans that look like they’ve spent the last 20 years under some old farm machinery in a barn in North Dakota. Yawn. Oh, and Mr Efron? Also, yawn.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Lucía-Gavello/1253586868 Lucía Gavello
  
  Seriously, those jeans look as filthy as everyone in this pictures. Not good when your car is cleaner than your hair people!
  
  And Zack… I want to punch him in every shot, he didn’t look THIS punchable even in his HSM days. And I’m not talking in a “smack that ass” sense, I literally want to kick that doucheface. (Babydouches make me violent, I apologize)
  - http://eclectictsunami.blogspot.in/ Cassie
    
    Babydouches make me get a little slap-happy, too.
  - http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie
    
    I was also getting a really, really extra strong whiff of babydouche.
  - http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd
    
    Unfortunately, this person is no longer in the BABY douche category. Sigh.
l3icest3r

OLOLOLOLOLLOLOL
LinXGUA

I thought he was Enrique Iglesias.
- bswartz
  
  ^^THIS.
- MilaXX
  
  I did too.
- http://twitter.com/SparklyCasanova UglyCasanova
  
  hahaha, Enrique is not that chubby.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Lucía-Gavello/1253586868 Lucía Gavello
  
  It’s the beanie and the overall expensive homeless look.
  - http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie
    
    It’s that beanie that makes me want to slap him so badly!
    - RebeccaKW
      
      Those beanies are terrible. You can put it on anyone and they would immediately drop 20 hot points.
- Anne Lucchesi
  
  Dang, must read before posting! You beat me to it!
- Judih1
  
  That knit hat photo is definetely an Enrique knock off.
holdmewhileimnaked

he’s got four skinny girls sitting on the back of his ranchero & still he’s asking for a handout?
asampat

he’s channeling a bit of ricky martin here
IMNAngryLiberal

I think I like him all clean and shiny better.
- Lisa
  
  Yeah, some guys just don’t pull of grimy that well. Nothing to be ashamed of – he just needs to scrub it down and go back to his wheelhouse.
http://www.facebook.com/katiewolf2002 Katie Wolf

Everyone looks like they’re seconds away from breaking into a dirty dance competition, and not the good kind of dirty. Also, WTF w/ that extended hand inviting us, the viewer, to join the squad in the back of that El Camino? No. A thousand times no!
Rebecca Johnson

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Sorry, but that’s my first reaction to this attempt at masculine-ification.
clatie

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA gasp HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Frank_821

He is a pretty boy but he seems way to bland for this kind of ad. I think back to those spreads Ewan McGregor had these past couple of weeks. Now he was selling the leather
- call_me_schmeg
  
  For real! (mmmmmm… Ewan….) Norman Reedus I could believe in this ad. Baby Zac with his dirty whiskers, not so much.
  - tereliz
    
    I would take Norman Reedus over Zac Efron ANY DAY! (Ewan goes without saying)
- http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie
  
  That’s for damn sure. Ewan… {sigh}
turtleemily

The mullet in the one shot made me laugh.

In my mind, I replaced BB!Simon Tam with Jensen Ackles, and it made it all much more tolerable.
- Amy Ennis
  
  Now I’d love to see Jensen Ackles here. Yummy.
- Elisa_G
  
  He does look a lot like Jensen Ackles, but he’s not as good yet as overcompensating for being so pretty. Needs a bit more aging and toughening up.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Laurie-S-Neilsen/775114982 Laurie S. Neilsen
  
  Yeah, I see him, and all I can see is Baby Simon Tam.
http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie

I don’t buy it at all.
Sara__B

Amazing eyes. Great face. Fabulous body. Wrong ad campaign for him.
- Sue_Asponte
  
  Agreed. I love Zac Efron, but this is ridiculous.
  - Lisa
    
    Yeah, I mean, I’ll cop to it – I”m exactly twice his age, and I find him fairly hot. But the ads make him look like a douche. And I hate that knitted dead thing on his head!
http://twitter.com/cornekopia Shawn EH

Even his bitchface is sweet!
formerlyAnon

Meh. So very, very faux.

(But, to each their own!)
hughman

A humongous NOOOO just for wearing one of those ridiculous knitted sacks on his head. I hate those with a burning passion, especially here in L.A. where it DOESN’T SNOW AND BARELY RAINS SO YOU DO NOT NEED TO WEAR A HAT OF WOOL TO COVER YOUR FAUX-HAWK YOU STUPID MAN-CHILD.

I’m sorry, this subject makes Mommy a little testy.
- http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie
  
  Thank you for saying this. Seriously.
Excellence_and_Elegance

He’s trying for heterosexual too hard.

What’s that? He is straight? No, really?
JanieS

That’s … butch?

:snort:
Rand Ortega

You mean that’s not an ad for the next season of “The A-List LA”?
SpcilK

He Works Out!
homofascist

Good Strangers With Candy reference T.Lo!
- http://dentsdelait.tumblr.com/ Nancy Marion
  
  I would *kill* to see Jerri Blank terrorize him.
  - homofascist
    
    Sooooooooo Jimmy Tickles!
  - holdstillnow
    
    That’s an AMAZING thought.
- YourBaloneyDontGotNoSecondName
  
  more, raising arizona, but i like your sense of humor!
YourBaloneyDontGotNoSecondName

son, you got a panty on your head.
- LinXGUA
  
  omg Hahahahaha!
  You’re a gem!
sleepycat

gay, I think this makes him look so much gayer then usual. He is a bit on the muscle twink side to really peak my interest (think athletic and sometimes kellen lultz[sp?])
Amy Ennis

He’s cute, but way too young for me. All I could think was I want the car.
Sartorial_She

Best thing that can happen to him is an industrial accident.
momogus

He’s pretty beautiful, but I can’t see him as anything but that kid from High School Musical.
Pants_are_a_must

There s a strong whiff of Timberdouche from this campaign. What gives?
MilaXX

Try as he might, he can’t give off a bad by image no matter how dirty he makes his jeans.
siriuslover

I agree that he looks more grown up (and much better). I thought he might have that baby face forever.
http://twitter.com/SparklyCasanova UglyCasanova

One of the few who does not find him attractive, I shall wear that badge proudly.
- Sartorial_She
  
  You are soooooo not alone!
- http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie
  
  Nope, definitely not alone.
ChelseaNH

He reminds me of Colin Farrell. Not sure that’s a good thing for Colin.
TropiCarla

I love the jacket in the first shot. That is all.
bellafigura1

Everyone looks like John Stamos to me.
- ASK26
  
  are you eating greek yogurt
http://twitter.com/obscureobjects David Calder

I feel bad for that skinny, slightly ratty urchin boy in the second to last photo…
ASK26

remove duplicate….
margaret meyers

He looks like he’s got little goat legs.
j_anson

Damn, though, none of that denim appeals at all.
throwslikeagirl

Ick. Is he such a bad actor that he can’t even pull off looking authentic for one lousy still photo? The vibe I’m getting is of a self-important, spoiled douche. He’s beautiful, but I’m not buying the character.
Call me Bee

I’ve never been a fan, but I saw Zak on the Graham Norton show with Matt LeBlanc a few weeks ago. He was cute and funny and self-effacing. Likable, even. So his douche level has gone way down for me.
Even so–this layout is just silly. For anyone.
Cat_In_A_Hat

Ive never been a fan but… he looks really hot in a beanie and stretched T-Shirt!
5HT

Horrific.
butter nut

he’s this generation’s joey lawrence. and his face makes me laugh just as much.
Alisa Rivera

I live a block away from the garage where this was photographed. It’s the same place Justin Bieber shot his last video. Not sure why this has become Teen Idol Photography Central.
Nonnah

It looks like audition stills for “Grease.”
Anne Lucchesi

The beanie pictures make him look like Julio Iglesias. Mostly though, all I can think of is the Friends episode where Joey waxed Chandler’s eyebrows (or was it vice versa?), because that is what stands out to me the most in these pictures. Just me?
- LesYeuxHiboux
  
  Think he’ll cover “Tonight I’m Fucking You”? Go Wildcats!
quiltrx

He’s not my cup of tea. I like the first picture, I guess.

The fourth picture looks like an 80s gay magazine pic (like those of Tom Cruise that one time LOL).
http://gabyrippling.tumblr.com/ Gabriella M

Pretend this editorial is Simon Tam, and it becomes HILARIOUS.
Linderella

Having never actually seen him in, well, anything, I must say I didn’t know he had such nice arms. So I’ll give him that.
boweryboy

Gay.

That’s all I see in each photo, the begining of a gay porn.
emily mcginnis

yes, please.
LesYeuxHiboux

Nope. He’s a clean shave all the way. I’m talking geek-chic and preppy blazers as far as the eye can see.
frankystein123

They’re okay I guess, but whatever.
http://twitter.com/SamH4Prez Samantha

“Moist as a snack cake”?! Please tell me this is a Strangers with Candy reference!
Anyway, he looks like a douchebag.
DesertDweller79

LOL! These are too funny! Butch? Ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Ah, thank you T & Lo. I needed a good laugh.
RzYoung

I know it seems like a weird thing to say but it actually must be quite hard to be that ridiculously good-looking. He doesn’t really do it for me but I too can see it.
carpediva

Baby douche.
carpediva

Ooops just scrolled down and saw I’m not the first on the “baby douche” train.

Scrolldown douche!
Lisa

I wonder – and I’m just spitballin’ here – if this might have been done as a tie-in or a “reflection” (if you will) for his new movie “The Paperboy”, that’s coming out this fall. He pretty much looks like this through the whole movie – just sweaty and gross with tight jeans and a wifebeater tank. But then again, the whole cast of the movie looks sweaty and gross through the whole movie.
kmk05

Which party is he going to where there are only women? And why is he there, then?

I don’t mind him, but these ads are really not for me: I have to grit my teeth at the picture where he is holding onto that woman. I know it’s standard, but I think it looks creepy and possessive.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1624741566 Penn Collins

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! Needed this morning laugh…. Just awful and delightfully totally wrong!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman

He has never interested me, but I do get the appeal. I still think he looks like a teenager, and a pretty boy.
http://profile.yahoo.com/FEP56YB4DUIXBWSLIMSSSGQHWY jimmack

I am glad he is not for, Zac is for me! In photo 8, he is hugged the other cute guy…not that tramp!

Why oh why do all the jean looks like they need to go into the wash? If this is the new look, I don’t have to do laundry this weekend.
http://twitter.com/dixielou8 Ashley

If he makes you moist as a snack cake, go with it, we say. *giggles*
tereliz

I can’t find him attractive. He’s just too fake for me. And this campaign makes every shot look extra contrived, like stills from a music video. The shot in the bed of the El Camino looks like he’s about to break into a rousing rendition of George Michaels’ Faith. “Bay-BAY!”
NCDFan

He looks like a dirty John Stamos. I hate these denim looks, they look dirty and to me dirty implies stinky.
- alyce1213
  
  a dirty John Stamos redundant
  - Pennymac
    
    Yup.
alyce1213

Douche bag,
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=506473106 Mori Clark

not a big fan of the stache (like i’m ever a fan of facial hair) but it’s zefron, so it’s still appreciated.
http://twitter.com/kerrymccombs Kerry McCombs

To me he’s never looked gayer.
silaria

My only thought on all these pictures is “L.O.L.” With the occasional interjection of “Arms!”
Hanna Choe

I’ve got to work “moist as a snack cake” into my everyday conversations.
Corazon Nunez

I’m trying to remember high school musical, with this face, and coming up with zip.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1069083922 Brady Galan

Quel douchebag look!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JSGAZPEESHQT47ATH55GNOHHBY Erin

Sometime, for some purpose, I absolutely must steal “milk-whiskered pretty boy.”

Efron? Enh. Cute. I think I’m gettin’ old — send him back to prom and send me a Cloon, please.

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