Posted on 01/30/2009 11:50:18 AM PST by Mister Ghost
From season to season it happens, and you’re probably not surprised, but Calvin Klein ads are banned again!
The new TV commercial for its Jeans line, shot by the unpredictable and edgy Steven Meisel, turned out to be so provocative, that it was banned from even late-night cable TV.
The new grainy Jeans commercial features half naked models Anna Selezneva, Anna Jagodzinska and Natasha Poly kissing their counterpart male models Vladimir Ivanov and Danny Schwarz. (Image at original site NSFW).
(Excerpt) Read more at thefashiontime.com ...
A typical “Banned in Boston!” style promotion.
Took a quick look, and I mean quick, because it didn’t take long to figure why they were banned.
I would not want my kids to see anything like that, either.
Change the channel. Free speech is a good thing. The more power you give the Feds to regulate what’s on the airwaves, the power they will exercise. They don’t see a distinction between ‘decency’ and ‘viewpoint’ so it’s better to have less regulation all the way around if you ask me.
Topless waifs kissing gay men.
Tres European!
With homosexual men running almost all the the major fashion houses, I'm not surprised to see artistic images and aesthetics that emote "prepubescent boys" - The women look like teenage boys and the men look like teenage boys.
This isn’t the fed, this is the networks. They don’t have to show stuff they don’t want.
They get a thousand times more publicity when something is banned then when they actually have to pay TV stations to run the commercials. best of all it’s free to them. Frankly, I fail to see what the big deal is.
The networks aren’t airing it because they are afraid of violating ‘decency standards.’
when your clothes are over priced, poorly made and bland, you have to resort to this kind of stuff to seem current. Calvin Klein is so 1996.
Step #2 - Submit it to network
Step #3 - Wait for network to reject it
Step #4 - Complain the network rejected it
Step #5 - Enjoy the publicity
His buttocks are sublime. (Kramer on Seinfeld)
I’m all for self-imposed decency standards...
Which this is. Some of the refusers are self imposing due to fear of the government, but most aren’t, and even if fear is a motive it’s still self imposed.
it’s no wonder, they’re not selling clothes, they are selling sex
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press";
The rule has been subsumed by the exceptions.
these were not going to be aired and they knew it, the controversy is the real ad.
Maybe so. Clever.
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