Mon 15 Jan 2007
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority, a watchdog agency, has banned ads for the fashion house Dolce & Gabbana that have been criticized as condoning and glorifying violence. In one of the ads, two men are threatening a man in a chair while another man lies injured on the floor. In another, two men are supporting a wounded woman who is holding a knife.
Dolce & Gabbana argued the ads were “highly stylized and intended to be an iconic representation of the Napoleonic period of art,” and while the ASA admitted they clearly mimicked the “theatrical effects of the genre,” they said they could still cause “serious of widespread offense.”