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‘Double standards’: FKA twigs defends banned semi-nude Calvin Klein advert


British singer says ‘I am proud of my physicality’ after advert is banned by Advertising Standards Authority

Following two complaints from the public, the ASA said the ad framed her as a “stereotypical sexual object” and the “image’s composition placed viewers’ focus on the model’s body rather than on the clothing being advertised”. i am proud of my physicality and hold the art i create with my vessel to the standards of women like josephine baker, eartha kitt and grace jones who broke down barriers of what it looks like to be empowered and harness a unique embodied sensuality. A rapturous New Yorker essay describes the photoshoot – which displays considerably more skin than the twigs image – as “a time stamp of our own historical moment, a period of foiled pleasures and desires left on simmer”.

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