It’s Time to Stop Beautifying Violence Against Women for Fashion [View all]

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Several photos of the ads accompany this article. I found the Vogue Italia ad to be the most horrifying.

TIME
It’s Time to Stop Beautifying Violence Against Women for Fashion
Laura Stampler @LauraStampler
Aug. 8, 2014     

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In 2007, Dolce & Gabbana released this ad that was eventually banned from Italian publications. (Although Stefano Gabbana contended it wasn’t gang rape but rather “an erotic dream, a sexual game.”)

Calvin Klein came out with the following ad, which was banned in Australia in 2010.

Vogue Italia did an entire spread on domestic violence in April, featuring women cowering over the small text identifying the Marc Jacobs she is wearing.

According to the World Health Organization, 35% of women worldwide have experienced partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. It is both one of the most intimate crimes and one of the most universal crimes because of the number of women it affects in every country. But just because a crime is familiar, does not mean that presenting it in the glossy pages of a magazine — finding sexy elements in a sexually violent act — is an appropriate medium for a public service announcement....

MORE at http://time.com/3093670/indias-gang-rape-plague-violence-against-women-for-fashion/