If you're unfamiliar with Victoria's Secret's latest controversial ad campaign, here's the rundown.
The lingerie and clothing company recently released an ad featuring slender, beautiful models in underwater. Sounds pretty typical, right?
Where they went wrong (or perhaps in terms of garnering publicity, hit the nail right on the head) was in adding the massive caption "The 'Perfect' Body'" over the women with stereotypically ideal figures as a promo for their "Body" campaign.
People were outraged at the insinuations behind the ad, and some even launched a Change.org petition urging the company to apologize.
Last weekend, women of all shapes and sizes protested in their own way by walking in a New York fashion runway show for Lingerie Fashion Week!
Please SHARE these awesome photos of beautiful women saying "screw you" to the industry's beauty standards and strutting their stuff on the runway!
1. This is the Victoria's Secret ad that sparked outrage online.
2. The show that these models (sizes 0-16) put on was for a group of breast cancer survivors and women living with breast cancer.
The show that this group of woman (sizes 0-16), "Secrets In Lace," put on was for a group of breast cancer survivors and women living with breast cancer.
3. "From the beginning we envisioned Lingerie Fashion Week as a platform to embrace and celebrate a wide range of intimate apparel brands, and hence body types, from petite to full bust to full figure to maternity," founder Lauren Rich told E! News.
4. "Lingerie is not one-size-fits-all, and neither are the women who wear it—on, and off, the runway."
5. Victoria's Secret has not yet responded to the backlash regarding their campaign.
6. But this show illustrates perfectly that ALL BODIES are BEAUTIFUL!
Please SHARE this important message of body acceptance with everyone you know!
