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24 sty 2024 · H&M is in hot water again after complaints that one of its advertisements sexualised children. Released in Australia as part of a regional back-to-school campaign, the image features two school-age girls posing against a pink background.
1 maj 2023 · The New York Times reported on an inappropriate clothing release and ad by H&M in 2018. The article detailed how the company faced a massive backlash after releasing an ad featuring a black child wearing a hoodie with the text "Coolest Monkey in the Jungle" on it.
22 lis 2021 · Social media users and public figures around the globe criticised H&M’s ad, giving rise to the hashtag #BoycottHM. The terms ‘Coolest Monkey H&M’ and ‘H&M racist’ trended on Google for the whole month of January, revealing the extent of interest and outrage!
H&M apologized on January 8, 2018, for offending others, but not for posting the ad, and said it removed the ad from its online stores. However, media outlets found the sweatshirt ad running without the model the same morning, on European sites later that day, and in Spanish countries the next day.
25 wrz 2020 · In early January this year, an H&M advert caused huge controversy when a photograph was released of a young black child wearing a green hoodie with the phrase “Coolest monkey in the jungle” emblazoned upon it.
22 sty 2024 · Fashion retailer H&M has withdrawn an ad featuring school girls after complaints that the campaign encouraged the sexualisation of under-age girls.
12 cze 2023 · We examine imagery from three relatively recent advertising campaigns by H&M, Jo Malone, and Dolce & Gabbana (D&G) which created public controversy in terms of their representation of race, and led to some accusations of overt racism by public commentators and consumer communities.
