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H&M apologizes for super-tan bikini model ad
The Local (Sweden) ^ | May 10, 2012

Posted on 05/10/2012 8:13:55 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Swedish cheap-and-chic fashion giant H&M on Thursday apologized over a swimwear campaign featuring a deeply tanned model that sparked outrage among cancer groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.se ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ads; appypollyloggy; cancer; skin; sweden; swedishbikiniteam; tan
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To: Dilbert San Diego; Impy
“Or, it would also be okay if this girl were a “trans-gendered” person who had a sex change operation.”

Toss in HIV+ status and she'd be more than ok; she'd be a moral authority that demands respect.

Is it me or are some of us living in a world that makes no sense? I'm expecting to wake up one day soon and find the sun rising from the West.

21 posted on 05/10/2012 9:20:20 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The stench of Earth Pimp-age is permeating over the internet...)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Yeah...incredibly gorgeous woman and what a striking pose! But that knee - ugh. Looks like a shark bit a chunk out of when she was surfing a few years ago.


22 posted on 05/10/2012 9:33:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

That might be the sunlight on the water reflecting back on her knee. I see a bit of the same pattern in her midriff.


23 posted on 05/10/2012 9:35:19 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: ConservativeStatement
The "outraged cancer groups" want her to use more sunscreen.

Not so fast, outraged cancer groups...

Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer

May 24, 2010
By Andrew Schneider

Almost half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually increase the speed at which malignant cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain vitamin A or its derivatives, according to an evaluation of those products released today.

AOL News also has learned through documents and interviews that the Food and Drug Administration has known of the potential danger for as long as a decade without alerting the public, which the FDA denies.


24 posted on 05/10/2012 9:37:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: mo

Yea, that’s an awkward reflection off the water onto her knee. I’m offended.


25 posted on 05/10/2012 9:39:16 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

lol

see!

I have been saying for years that this is what would happen!

The freaking sun screens will be determined in the end to be more dangerous than the sun they were suppose to protect us from. Mark it down.


26 posted on 05/10/2012 9:54:17 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (The Tea Party isn't dead... we're just waiting)
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To: MinuteGal

Jealous much? She’s got a healthy, lean, athletic, toned shape. It’s not like you can see her ribs or bones sticking out or anything. Having a flat stomach doesn’t make you anorexic, except I guess in a country growing more lazy, obese and undisciplined every day.


27 posted on 05/10/2012 9:54:52 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

As cute as she is now, if that is not her natural color, then I would not go there.

Us European derivatives getting super tans makes us look really old when we are middle aged. I know several of these people who were the lust of the town in their early 30’s, then they hit their 40’s, and they now look like they are 90, in their late 50’s, early 60’s.


28 posted on 05/10/2012 9:58:01 PM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Too much of a good thing?

29 posted on 05/10/2012 11:55:10 PM PDT by henbane
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To: henbane

I just can’t understand how that extra crispy nutcase isn’t in an asylum. She literally looks insane. Poor child.

As for the model..she’s lovely.


30 posted on 05/11/2012 12:19:02 AM PDT by catbertz
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31 posted on 05/11/2012 1:46:42 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: ConservativeStatement

““The model in the swimwear campaign is called Isabeli Fontana and she is Brazilian, which means that she has a darker skin tone than most Europeans,””

Whatever...her breasts look fake, too.


32 posted on 05/11/2012 6:31:25 PM PDT by hummingbird (I am Breitbart.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj

I’m not a fan of tanning but she looks hot and the cancer people need to take a chill pill. And corporate wusses need to grow a spine.


33 posted on 05/13/2012 3:58:07 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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