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While American Apparel's target demographic is 18-34 year olds, the brand has had multiple advertisements banned for sexualizing models who appeared to be underage, even thou there were at least 18. Leading to regulatory bodies like the
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to conclude some photos sexualized models to appear as under 16. This suggests that while the company's stated intent is to model with adults, some of their creative choices have resulted in campaigns that blurred these lines
These ads are about positivity. The women weren’t pro models, were invariably pretty, had natural bodies, weren’t anorexic giraffes like pro models, and weren’t Dove campaign for “real beauty” fatasses. It’s a celebration of what women can look like if they avoid too many ice creams and fillers.
> Leading to regulatory bodies like the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to conclude some photos sexualized models to appear as under 16.
What does that even mean? They thought they were underage, they weren't, so they just decided to pretend they were anyway?
> This suggests that while the company's stated intent is to model with adults, some of their creative choices have resulted in campaigns that blurred these lines
No, hiring 18+ models isn't blueing the lines, they did in fact have adult models.
+Syntax !AT4qCO/n0Y replied with this 2 months ago, 31 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,402,972
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It is clear to me they hired girls of 18 or more that looked or could look and act much younger.
I had a very close gal friend who I danced with and we both had fun at the local nude beach. At age 22 she looked 16. Like 4 ft 8 inches and born with a almost dwarf like genetic defect.
Dwarfs have legs/limbs out of proportion and her total body was most perfect. We were just close friends and I let her stay in my guest room for few months when she was between jobs.
A neighbor produced porn movies and kept offering her lots o $$ to act in films as a very young like 14 yr old. She laffed it off.
Dang I never work this late EXCEPT during a Satellite launch and then that may be a few days in row with NO SLEEP.
Have a Satellite now owned temporally by Apple corp while they are having one of their own to call their OWN. Spent days fining a way to unstuck it and DID and yet alarm says its not working correctly YET it's working more better than its team mates of 3. Just weird. Alarms over the many years have been many and NEVER EVER in Error so far.