Do You Find This Offensive?
March 8, 2007
Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana said on Tuesday they will withdraw an advertisement which shows a man pinning a woman down by her wrists after widespread criticism it condoned violence against women.
“We have decided to cancel … the advertising image that has caused such repercussions within human interest groups and individuals,” Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said in an emailed statement.
“We were looking to recreate a game of seduction in the campaign and highlight the beauty of our collections,” the designers said.
Italian union CGIL’s textile workers’ division had called for a boycott of Dolce & Gabbana products on International Women’s’ Day over the advert. Human rights group Amnesty International had called for the advertisement to be withdrawn, saying it risked “excusing violence against women”.
“It was never our intention to … offend anyone or promote violence against women,” the designers, whose latest womenswear collection featured riding crops and silver eye-masks, added.
All the ads are very original and futuristic looking. I guess I can see a little how it could be offensive to some. Plus some of the models tend to look alitte scary the way the have the models looking. (atleast I think they are real models, HA!) But I kinda like the look of them. Hmmm, so over all I guess i’m trying to say I don’t really know what I think about the ads! 
source – pics JJB
March 8th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Its kinda creepy!you’ve the the one guy pinning her down,while his three clones are standing there watching! I bet after the photo shoot those four guys pinned each other down.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Nah, it looks like fun to me!
November 22nd, 2011 at 8:26 am
[...] Dolce & Gabbana. Here we have an image a fashion editor might call “edgy and provocative.” Now, I won’t explicitly say what this looks like to me, but suffice to say if you saw this same setup occurring in your local park after 10pm, you’d call the police. It definitely elicits more than an “oh, my!” More importantly, you can’t even see enough of the dress to know if you’d even like it. [...]