Fashion v censorship: a history of banned ads
''Last week, the Advertising Standards Agency ruled that a Miu Miu campaign image featuring Mia Goth photographed by Steven Meisel was “irresponsible and was likely to cause serious offence”.
An article featured on dazed website featuring past ads that have been put under scrutiny for their controversial photography and ideas they are projecting within their campaigns. looking at some of these adverts it does surprise me how they thought they wouldn't be subjected to backlash. It is quite obvious that the ones that got band focus on quite a sexualised image. Sisley's advertisement (above) of Josie Maran posing with a cows udder is one which shocked me. though it wasnt a shock when i came to find that Terry Richardson shot this campaign. he also shot tom fords 2007 campaign which also got banned its not hard to see why this got banned. the model poses with her legs spread and a perfume bottle strategically placed over her genitals. Sadly but obviously this perfume is aimed at men as 'sex sells'. making it an extremely obvious target for being banned. though to my surprise it wasnt. tom ford argued that the people that will be buying and reading magazines that feature the ad will be aware that its simply an image and that it was extremely artistic.
In the end, to me it is very blatant why these ads could be banned if a child saw the advertisements. especially the way some of these ads show women. does banning it in fact spread it further?. which defeats the point.
“The thing is, you can’t show male nudity in our culture in the way you can show female nudity. We’re very comfortable as a culture exploiting women, but not men” – Tom Ford
An article featured on dazed website featuring past ads that have been put under scrutiny for their controversial photography and ideas they are projecting within their campaigns. looking at some of these adverts it does surprise me how they thought they wouldn't be subjected to backlash. It is quite obvious that the ones that got band focus on quite a sexualised image. Sisley's advertisement (above) of Josie Maran posing with a cows udder is one which shocked me. though it wasnt a shock when i came to find that Terry Richardson shot this campaign. he also shot tom fords 2007 campaign which also got banned its not hard to see why this got banned. the model poses with her legs spread and a perfume bottle strategically placed over her genitals. Sadly but obviously this perfume is aimed at men as 'sex sells'. making it an extremely obvious target for being banned. though to my surprise it wasnt. tom ford argued that the people that will be buying and reading magazines that feature the ad will be aware that its simply an image and that it was extremely artistic.
In the end, to me it is very blatant why these ads could be banned if a child saw the advertisements. especially the way some of these ads show women. does banning it in fact spread it further?. which defeats the point.
“The thing is, you can’t show male nudity in our culture in the way you can show female nudity. We’re very comfortable as a culture exploiting women, but not men” – Tom Ford
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