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TOP 20 MOST CONTROVERSIAL FASHION ADS, a thread.
Emmanuel Ungaro, 2002. Numerous magazines refused to publish it.
Gucci 'Public Enemy', 2003 (1/2)
Gucci 'Public Enemy', 2003 (2/2)
Yves Saint Laurent 'Opium Perfume', 2000.
Wonderbra, 1994. It looks perfectly fine, but its billboards caused an increase in car crashes.
Sisley 'Fashion Junkie', 2007
American Apparel, 2006. This is just one of the brand's many ads starring highly sexualized women.
Abercrombie & Fitch. This 'homoerotic' ad was shot by Bruce Weber, who has been accused of sexual assault by male models.
Marc Jacobs 'Lola', 2011. Banned in England for being sexually provocative. Dakota Fanning was 17 years old
Dolce & Gabbana, 2007. Horrible. Known as 'The gang rape advert'
United Colors of Benetton, 1992.
Calvin Klein, 1992. Kate was underage and didn't know she would have to pose topless + with a guy. She had a nervous breakdown because of this.
Tom Ford For Men, 2007.
CK series, 1995. People thought the models were underage and the poses were sexually suggestive, even tho all models were adults.
Calvin Klein, 2016.
Gucci Cruise, 2016. Banned in the UK because the model appeared to be too thin.
Sisley, 2001. Even more gross knowing it was shot by Terry Richardson.
Tom Ford, 2017.
Calvin Klein, 1980. Brooke Shields was 15 years old when she appeared on TV saying "You wanna know what's between me and my Calvins? Nothing"
Yves Saint Laurent 'M7 Fragrance', 2002. Inspired by the famous black and white photographs of Yves Saint Laurent himself.
Alexander Wang, 2014.
Most of these campaigns are VERY wrong. Especially the Dolce and Gabbana one. Imagine how uncomfortable (to say the least) models felt shooting all these pictures...
Anyways, that was it. Feel free to reply to this tweet with your thoughts or other ad that wasn't mentioned here.
Anyways, that was it. Feel free to reply to this tweet with your thoughts or other ad that wasn't mentioned here.
I hope people understand how wrong some of these are and don't romanticize the clear objectification of women that's being portrayed.
Would you like a Part II?
I'll do it. When would it be better to do the Part ll then? (Which, by the way, won't be in this thread. It will be another independent thread).
