Children's Clothing Ad Has Naked Man in Background: Accident or Sick Joke?
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2012/01/09 21:00:00
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Looks like somebody needs to fire their editor. French clothing company La Redoute released an ad for their children's line showing a bunch of happy, smiling kids -- and a naked man in the background, Yahoo! Shine reports. The PG-13 version of the photo appears below:
"La Redoute apologizes for the photograph published on its site and is taking steps to remove it," a company representative tweeted. "We will strengthen the validation process of all brand communications for this cannot happen again in the future," they wrote on Facebook. In a statement, the company added: "An internal inquiry has been opened to determine how the error happened."
The uncensored photo was online for almost an entire day, going viral before the company removed it, according to Yahoo! And while the mishap made us laugh, we have to wonder how it occurred. Europeans are much more comfortable with nudity -- and naked bathing -- than Americans, so perhaps, maybe the people responsible for this photo didn't think having a naked man in the background was a big deal. Or, maybe it was a publicity stunt to get people talking about La Redoute (mission accomplished). Or, and this is probably what happened, maybe they just didn't notice him.
The uncensored photo was online for almost an entire day, going viral before the company removed it, according to Yahoo! And while the mishap made us laugh, we have to wonder how it occurred. Europeans are much more comfortable with nudity -- and naked bathing -- than Americans, so perhaps, maybe the people responsible for this photo didn't think having a naked man in the background was a big deal. Or, maybe it was a publicity stunt to get people talking about La Redoute (mission accomplished). Or, and this is probably what happened, maybe they just didn't notice him.
Top Opinion
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MattRushing 2012/01/10 00:49:27
It's not like they close off a whole beach just to use a small section of it to take a picture, stuff happens.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
if it was a stunt, it back fired. The competition 3 Suisse is exploiting this
This Accidental Naked Frenchman Is Now Used To Sell Swimming Trunks
the cheeky ad reads "Clearly not everyone knows we have swimming trunks from €9.99."
Read more: http://articles.businessinsid...
Really what is it with some people? This reminds me of the idiots that wanted to ban Snow White years ago because a woman was 'living in sin with 7 men'. Stop projecting your own gutter-mind tendencies of children who think nothing of it. Children don't care until Sexually repressed adults start using stuff like this to give kids hang-ups over God's greatest creation-the human body.
1. Nudity/the Human Body
2. Alcohol
Neither are treated with respect.
maybe the editor was out to lunch
could be the proof reader was slackin off
it's plain to see the "professional" is blind at best
didn't mention how many sets of eyeballs seen that picture before it pubic