Via ShinyStyle: Calvin Klein is in hot water yet again after a provocative billboard for its womenswear and menswear jeans line was unveiled in New York this week. The racy ad which depicts a young female semi-naked model lying across one man and kissing another has caused uproar amongst appalled Manhattanites. However CK designers are at a loss to see the problem.
"It's my favourite campaign ever!" said CK menswear designer, Italo Zucchelli. "I hope they're going to be, 'Ooooh, what is that?' And then they buy our jeans. In the best tradition of Calvin Klein."
"We have now reached the point where many of the sample sizes don't comfortably fit the established star models," she wrote.
The British Vogue editor has been praised for her strong words, describing how samples are now so "minuscule" they force editors to use models with "jutting bones" and "no breasts or hips". She also admitted to retouching photos in order to make models appear bigger.
"I am finding that the feedback from my readers and the general feeling in the UK is that people really don't want to see such thin girls in either editorial or advertising."
Talk about wrong time, wrong audience. Kanye West has got himself into hot water with Pink, after he suggested Stella McCartney use more fur in her collections.
The pair, along with Kanye's girlfriend Amber Rose and PETA senior vice president, Dan Mathews, sat front row together at McCartney's A/W 2009-10 show in Paris last March (pictured right)
"He just wouldn't shut up about how he loved fur. I mean, he's saying this to me, the PETA guy and Paul McCartney!" she told Australia's FHM magazine. "I was just so grossed out by him. I'm like "You're an idiot!" I have one piece of advice for Kanye - know your audience!"
Guess Kanye can count himself off the guest list for McCartney's next show!
The retailer has come under heavy criticism after charging customers an extra £2 for bra sizes DD and larger, which they say is to cover extra material and engineering costs. Naturally the move has upset bigger-busted women, including Ulrika Jonsson, who claim they have been discriminated against.
"People think it would be great to have big boobs, but it's an emotional issue, it can make you feel isolated, and shopping at Marks & Spencer can make you feel like a freak when they charge you extra," said Beckie Williams of Busts 4 Justice.
With everything that has been going on this week at Paris Fashion Week, I'm only now getting around to posting this new PETA advert that was unveiled at the Stella McCartney show. The British designer is a long-time advocate for animal rights, and helped highlight PETA's ongoing plight by screening the new ad following her show. Starring the voices of Ricky Gervais and Pink, it features an alligator and rabbit who demand their skins back from a stylish couple. So far, PETA have raised some noise outside the Jean Paul Gaultier show on Saturday, by holding a public demonstration. Click play on clip above to view.
A group of PETA protesters were out in force in San Francisco on Tuesday accusing Giorgio Armani of being a liar over his use of fur. The animal rights activists set up camp outside an Armani store calling on celebrities not to wear the label to this year's Oscars.
Just over a year ago the designer told TIME magazine: "I spoke with the people from PETA, and they showed me some materials that convinced me not to use fur." However, PETA argues that he has since contradicted this statement by featuring fur in his latest collections.
I am having sudden flashbacks to the fat taunts Karolina Kurkova was subjected to following her catwalk appearance at at Sao Paulo Fashion Week last June. Only this time the media's harsh lens has taken aim at 21-year-old Gemma Ward, who they have callously labelled "roll model" after she was snapped a few kilos heavier in her swimsuit at Byron Bay.
The article, featured on the front page Australia's The Sunday Telegraph, promises "shocking pictures" of the young model emerging from the surf. As I said, here we go again...
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