A Calvin Klein ad featuring FKA Twigs has been banned in the UK, as the BBC reports. After receiving multiple complaints, the Advertising Standards Authority determined that the “image’s composition placed viewers’ focus on the model’s body rather than on the clothing being advertised,” and that by focusing on FKA Twigs’ “physical features” the ad “presented her as a stereotypical sexual object.”

Twigs’ Calvin Klein campaign debuted last March, with the tagline Calvins Or Nothing. “Doing [this campaign] means I can be who I am — a strong woman,” Twigs told Rolling Stone in an interview when the campaign was released. “This isn’t going to go in and out of fashion. When I’m in my 60s and have grandchildren, I can show them these pictures and say, ‘Your grandmother was strong.'”

Calvin Klein defended the advertisement, noting that Twigs collaborated with the company and approved the final images, and that all “conventionally sensitive” areas of the body were fully covered.

UPDATE: FKA Twigs has responded to the controversy on Instagram:

i do not see the ‘stereotypical sexual object’ that they have labelled me. i see a beautiful strong woman of colour whose incredible body has overcome more pain than you can imagine.

in light of reviewing other campaigns past and current of this nature, i can’t help but feel there are some double standards here. so to be clear…
i am proud of my physicality and hold the art i create with my vessel to the standards of women like josephine baker, eartha kitt and grace jones who broke down barriers of what it looks like to be empowered and harness a unique embodied sensuality. thank you to ck and mert and marcus who gave me a space to express myself exactly how i wanted to – i will not have my narrative changed.

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