Dakota Fanning on Her Banned ‘Sexually Provocative’ Marc Jacobs Ad
In her Glamour cover story, Dakota Fanning addresses that whole controversy around her banned-in-the-UK Marc Jacobs fragrance campaign.
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Wednesday January 30th, 2013
Monday December 17th, 2012
Jessica Simpson Reveals Her Baby Bump, American Apparel Fights Back and Pippa Middleton to the TODAY Show?
Jessica Simpson served as maid of honor this weekend for her former assistant, looking chic in a black gown that revealed her baby bump. {US Weekly}
You could be seeing a lot more of Pippa Middleton (and her fabulous bum): Rumors are swirling that the Today Show is courting Kate’s sister to be a correspondent, with a hefty six figure lure. {Jezebel}
American Apparel is not too pleased about the recent ASA ban of one of their ads, reporting that the “sexualized child” in the banned ad was actually 23 years old when the photo was taken. {WWD}
Wednesday February 1st, 2012
The UK’s ASA Slams a Rachel Weisz for L’Oreal Ad for ‘Unrealistic Retouching’
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has taken yet another cosmetics company to task for its false advertising, WWD is reporting. Instead of taking an overprotective role over too-young girls being featured in precarious situations (like Dakota Fanning’s Marc Jacobs Oh Lola! ad or Hailee Steinfeld in that “irresponsible” Miu Miu ad), this time they’re Read more →
Wednesday November 16th, 2011
UK Retail Site Forced to Pull Photos of Model Amanda Hendrick Because She Looks Too Thin–Was It the Right Decision?
Like most models, Amanda Hendrick is skinny–perhaps even unhealthily so. But in the eyes of the Advertising Standards Agency in the UK her body is downright “socially irresponsible.”
According to The Daily Mail, the ASA ordered images of Hendrick wearing a bikini on Drop Dead Clothing’s website be removed after concerned shoppers complained the model looked anorexic. “The ASA considered the model was very slim. We also noted that in the bikini and denim shorts images, hollows in her thighs were noticeable and she had prominent thigh bones,” the ruling said. “We considered that in combination with the stretched out pose and heavy eye make-up, the model looked underweight in the pictures.”
Since getting her start in the modeling biz in Scotland at the tender age of 14, Hendrick has been steadily rising in the modeling ranks.
