Fashion Forum

This is absolutely stupid;

AP - London - A British watchdog agency criticized Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana on Wednesday for ads that showed models aggressively brandishing knives.
The Advertising Standards Authority said the company acted irresponsibly and breached standards of good taste in publishing the ads, which showed male models waving knives while surrounded by glamorous women models, in poses inspired by the paintings of French romantic artist Eugene Delacroix. One man was shown lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head.

There was no immediate comment from Milan-based Dolce & Gabbana.

The ruling amounts to a slap on the wrist and doesn't ban the ads.

The independent authority, which regulates the industry, issued the report after 166 people complained that two ads, which appeared in The Times and Daily Telegraph last October, glorified knife and gun crime.

It upheld complaints that Dolce & Gabbana had shirked its social responsibility and breached standards of decency. But it dismissed a complaint that the ads would encourage people to harm themselves.

One of the ads in The Times appeared opposite a story about knife crime; the authority said this was likely to cause serious offense.

The adverts in question (showing plenty of the lovely Gemma Ward);

This is ridiculous. Firt t.v then video games and now this. Give us a break.

The adverts are too cool.

I loved that campaign!Is that will chalker with the gunshot wound in the second one?

Certainly looks like it.

A 2007 campaign from D&G seems a tad more orgy orientated;

And another...

Got my vote on stlye spy :)

Their ads tend to involve unclothed people...

So do editorials about them it seems;