Best Rejected Advertising Volume Three
Banned
Introduction
Print
›   Bodyshop
›   Channel 4
›   Eastpak
›   Elle Macpherson
›   EasyJet
›   Finans
›   Hamlet
›   Harvey Nichols
›   Marithe & Francois
Girbaud
›   The Rules of Attraction
›   Virgin Mobile
TV
Radio
Sample Pages
Contact
Press
Rejected
 
The Body Shop
China, USA
 

 


Mattel sent The Body Shop a cease-and-desist order, demanding to pull the self-esteem posters featuring Ruby - a rubenesque anti-Barbie - from American shop windows, because she was insulting to the real Barbie. Then, in Hong Kong, posters of Ruby were banned on the Mass Transit Railway because authorities said that in her nude (albeit nippleless and pubic-hair-free) condition, she would offend passengers. One shop in the US was forced to take down a Ruby poster after a mall patron said his daughter had been traumatized by seeing it.