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This Urban Outfitters Model Photo Was Banned Because of a Too-Wide Thigh Gap

Ad is deemed 'irresponsible'

By David Kiefaber

January 7, 2015

Britain's Ad Standards Authority has delivered the first body-image smackdown to an advertiser in 2015 by banning an Urban Outfitters photo of a model whose thigh gap looked too wide.

David Kiefaber
adfreakdk@gmail.com David Kiefaber is a frequent contributor to Adweek's creativity blog, AdFreak.
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