Models, Guns and Knives Oh My!

A British watchdog agency criticized Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana last week for ads that showed models aggressively brandishing knives.
The Advertising Standards Authority said the company acted irresponsibility and breached standards of good taste (excuse us while we comprehend the fact that we just said good taste and Dolce & Gabbana in the same sentence), which showed male models waving knives while surrounded by glamorous female models, in poses inspired by the French romantic artist Eugene Delacroix (and here you thought we were only experts in porn). One man was shown lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head.
The ruling amounts to a girly slap on the wrist and doesn’t ban the ads.
The independent authority, which regulates the industry, issued the report after 166 people complained that two ads which appeared in The Times and Daily Telegraph last October, glorified knife and gun crime.
It upheld complaints that Dolce & Gabbana had shirked its social responsibility (?) and breached standards of decency. Now if you ask us their last two collections under the Dolce & Gabbana banner breached standards of wearablity, but that’s just us. The watchdog dismissed a complaint that the ads would encourage people to harm themselves.