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OT: Remember that Dakota Fanning perfume ad? Banned in the UK!

rae

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http://stylenews.peoplestylewa.....d=popsugar

I'm not too shocked, since the UK seems to be more handsy with the morality laws than some other places. Also, I'm thinking back to Art History class, and if you view it in light of some of the old art convetions (flowers to reference genitalia, hands-on-thighs to signal masturbation), the ad really does seem to sexualize a child. Maybe the UK would be more sensitive to those kinds of things than the US.

On the other hand, what kinds of ads was Britney Spears doing when she was 17? No censorship there.

On the *other* hand, Britney seemed more developed and styled to look older. Dakota seems styled to look even younger than she is.

Thoughts?

14 years ago

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Latest reply was from Claudia

catgirl

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Is this the nudie one? My husband and his buddy were thumbing through my In Style (looking for Blake Lively - don't ask) and drooled all over that ad. Never mind that they are both technically old enough to be her dad, as I was quick to remind them.

14 years ago

rachylou

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Not the nude one (haven't seen that!). She's in a girly dress with a giant bottle of perfume, capped with a flower, between her legs.

Actually, aesthetically, I find it one of the most asexual photographs I've ever seen. Not even Lolita fetish. More wasting urban waif.

14 years ago

catgirl

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Oh, maybe that was it. They found another ad with someone nude - I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to them at that point.

14 years ago

rae

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Yikes, if there is a nude one! I don't know how they'd get away with that...

Interesting that you see it as asexual, rachylou. I felt very taken aback by the overtness of it myself... young girl prone, fingering the flower-that-isn't-a-flower between her legs... o_0 I blame it on the Liberal Arts degree.

14 years ago

Mamapicklejuice

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rae - if anything, the fact that she is made up to look so young and childlike in an overtly sexual ad (flower between the legs) is even more disturbing to me.

ETA Marc Jacob's statement/denial is disgusting and insulting. You want to shock, Marc? Then OWN IT.

14 years ago

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Exactly what I was thinking! She does look young and childlike and oblivious. I found it creepy and wondered what her parents were thinking when they saw it.

14 years ago

annagybe

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I'm becoming less and less enamored of Marc Jacobs. He's becoming the enfant terrible of fashion.

14 years ago

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And what's with the quality of the photo? The shadows and lighting seem off, is it supposed to look like an amateur photographer took the photo? That just seems to add to the pedophile vibe of it.

14 years ago

Claudia

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I agree that this is a questionable ad and that it is provocative for all the wrong reasons. Having just raised a daughter to young adulthood, I am sensitive to the sexual and, yes, creepy overtones.

14 years ago

ironkurtin

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Oh, I thought that as supposed to look like she had some kind of weird flower sea-anemone-like penis. Whatever it means, it doesn't make me want to wear the perfume - or even smell it.

14 years ago

Ves

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The ad says "Oh Lola" on it. Lolita is exactly what they wanted to convey.

14 years ago

Claudia

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I didn't even notice the "Oh Lola." Yeah, no mistaking the intent. Ugh.

14 years ago

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