SINGER FKA Twigs has hit back on Instagram after a raunchy Calvin Klein ad which saw her striking a fierce pose in a shirt was banned by UK regulator the Advertising Standards Authority.
This came after the ASA received a whopping grand total of TWO complaints which argued the ad inappropriately sexualised her.
FKA Twigs, who has 2.4million followers on Instagram, wrote in a post on Thursday: “I do not see the ‘stereotypical sexual object’ that they have labelled me . . . I can’t help but feel there are some double-standards here.”
The removal of the advert comes just days after actor Jeremy Allen White was celebrated on billboards around the world, flashing lashings of flesh — and bulge — in some tighty whities for another Calvin Klein campaign.
There was nothing but a warm reception and gleeful praise for this male celeb baring it all.
The regulator, who clearly doesn’t have anything better to crack on with, claimed FKA’s advert was “irresponsible and likely to cause serious offence”.
You’ve really got to laugh at the pathetic, mollycoddling antics of those in charge of what we see, listen to and read these days.
And spare a thought for the sad, moralising prudes whose offence threshold is so low that they had to write a strongly worded letter about a bit of bum and sideboob on a billboard.
God help them should they ever find themselves at a public swimming pool. I usually wouldn’t go round endorsing nudity willy-nilly and, if my daughter was heading out barely clothed, she’d quickly get the, “Where do you think you’re going dressed like that?!” stare.
But I am 100 per cent with FKA Twigs on this one.
The ad regulator justified their decision because they say the shot focused too much on “the model’s body rather than on the clothing being advertised”.
Have they ever looked at a Calvin Klein ad?!
Or, in fact, most fashion labels.
Look at a nude Katy Perry for Moschino.
Or Kendall Jenner in her birthday suit on horseback for Stella McCartney.
It also seems that it’s all right if male celebs want to show off their bodies for millions of dribbling spectators, but an image of a woman half-draped in a shirt is far too much for the eyes to bear.
It’s so blatantly hypocritical and sexist that you’d think it was satire.
Personally, I thought the FKA Twigs ad was sexy and powerful.
More than that, I was pleased to see an ad campaign that was celebrating the healthy physique of a biological woman without it being caked in some woke messaging that nobody asked for.
We are constantly being bombarded with ad campaigns that are far more “sexualised” and “irresponsible” than the FKA Twigs shoot.
Cosmopolitan’s 2021 campaign in which overweight women were plastered on the magazine’s cover under the headline “this is healthy” was slammed for promoting obesity.
Now THAT was irresponsible.
Last year, Burberry ran an ad campaign showing two young “gender-neutral” women embracing, one of whom flaunted her scars from a double mastectomy.
“Top surgery”, where girls and women who believe they are born in the wrong body volunteer to have their breasts removed, is a highly controversial and medically unnecessary operation.
THAT ad was bloody offensive and irresponsible.
Well done to the ASA for banning FKA’s advert.
Now you’ve absolutely made sure more people than ever will see it — and praise it.
