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Protests over the latest advertising campaign of Calvin Klein has forced the company to withdraw its ads before its scheduled end. Conservatives are enraged over images used by the designer in the aforementioned ads, which show young people in provocative poses, with the panties of one girl exposed for viewing. Calvin Klein, which has mastered the art of using sexy images in its memorable advertising campaigns, issued a statement expressing surprise at the strong public reaction. An advertising executive claims this fiasco is actually a reflection of the public's tendency to blame Hollywood and Madison Avenue for societal ills instead of attacking the real issue. Despite this development, many marketers are bravely using sexy imageries in their current ads. These include Guess?, Diet Coke, Pepe Jeans, Katharine Hamnett, Hanes, Karastan Bigelow and Replay Blue Jeans. Calvin Klein, meanwhile, promises to continue making memorable advertising images.

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The conservative American Family Association Tuesday said it has asked Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate whether Calvin Klein violated anti-child-pornography laws in the controversial ad campaign [...]

Calvin Klein has been criticized for a new advertising campaign that depicts young people in sexy poses. The designer says the ads for his CK Jeans are being misinterpreted. He claims the campaign, which includes TV, radio, print and bus ads, is supposed to show the strength and self-knowledge of young people. Others claim the ads are pornographic, and a network TV station has refused to air them. The New York Daily News printed a highly critical story on the campaign and women's groups have spoken out against it., NEW YORK -- 'If someone thinks these ads are pornographic, they are reading something into them that was not intended,' Calvin Klein said Friday. The designer was responding to charges [...]

The new Calvin Klein Jeans print and television advertisements are being criticized. The television advertisements, which will be broadcast on MTV, feature a young man and a young woman who are interviewed by a deep-voiced man who is off camera. The advertisements are meant to portray realism and not the professional style of television commercials. The print advertising which will appear in magazines for young people has young people in suggestive poses., NEW YORK -- Naughty Calvin Klein is stirring up trouble again. His newest CK Jeans TV ads, which some observers have said resemble an audition for a low budget porn [...]

NEW YORK -- Withdrawn was the word for Calvin Klein on Monday. After withdrawing his controversial CK Jeans ad campaign from TV, buses and magazines, Klein himself kept a low [...]