While attempting to create something tastefully artistic, Brian Atwood’s F/W12 ad campaign has unknowingly stumbled into soft-core porn territory. In fact, the summertime ad was considered so offensive that it was banned by the Madison Avenue building – the building that houses the Brian Atwood store.
This huge banner ad for famed shoe designer Brian Atwood, showing naked men on a couch stroking Victoria’s Secret model Candice Swanepoel’s long legs, has been banned by the Madison Avenue building that houses Atwood’s new Midtown store. And the designer’s skin-heavy fashion film has gotten the boot from city taxi rear-seat TVs for its risqué content.
Aside from the half-naked models, the orgy and sexual references displayed throughout, this ad campaign is perfectly suitable for anyone in any age category.
A less lascivious version of the ad was later OK’d by the building at 655 Madison Ave., and taxis will screen a behind-the-scenes teaser of the film, which will be shown at BrianAtwood.com.
Something like this shocks the viewers and will surely popularize the Brian Atwood name more so than before – since there’s nothing more alluring than the word ‘banned’. Take a look at the ad below and judge for yourself.
