22.05.12
Reports that the essence has stirred up its fair share of controversy in France — and with fitting reason. The photo, found on La Redoute’s e-commerce site, features four annoyingly cheery looking children frolicking on the beach wearing fun (if grammatically inexact) T-shirts. But way off in the distance behind them is a man wearing absolutely nothing. This is creepy on a number of levels — in the photo, this barefaced man’s presence invalidates all that childlike joy the children are experiencing.
But then you have to boost back a level. How did this man get here in the first place? Did La Redoute really do a children’s photoshooot on a seashore where people are allowed to roam around naked? Odds are, if there was one naked guy on that seashore, there were probably more.
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The French Twittersphere has exploded in enrage over the image — we don’t speak French, but the language of justified indignation is universal. One angry tweeter described the affair as a “SCANDALE!” We’re tending to agree with that assessment. Because even if a naked man accidentally slips into the back of your photo, someone in your ad bureau would have to notice before it went online — there was probably even time for someone in La Redoute’s inventive department to erase this guy altogether with Photoshop.
Source: Styleite